{The Ultimate ANDY DALTON Mega Thread}

[*Wyche'sWarrior*]

(11-06-2015, 11:56 AM)djs7685 Wrote: I absolutely admit that I was overly critical of the guy in the past, but I do think a lot of my criticism was warranted and still stands to be true today. I may have nitpicked him occasionally, but he absolutely wasn't a top QB until this year. His mechanics improving last year along with the ability to not completely fold with injuries surrounding him was impressive. This year he took the next step and looks great. A lot of us have been overly critical, but I don't think many people were completely out of line that were critical except the ones that had the "Andy sucks!!!" narrative. He's never really sucked, well, except in the playoffs and some primetime games, but every QB sucks sometimes.

I've seen some teams win games with awfully mediocre QBs in the past, so I can't give Andy all of the credit in the world for 2014, but he did a lot of good things last year that I liked to see. I've always been super annoyed with the Andy homers that always have to overrate everything he does and tear down other QBs around the league and even other Bengals players to make Andy seem better than he was in the past. For that reason, most of my arguments would be with them so it seemed like I "didn't like" Andy, though funny enough, I've always had him ranked right around 12-13 which is significantly higher than a lot of people on the boards.

I know it.....that's why I said "not you" in my post.  Most of the criticism was warranted, some was a tiny bit over the top.  There were others though, that were absurd and couldn't see the forest for all of the trees.  I have seen steady development and a guy growing on the fly, others said he had reached his ceiling, he was 20th or worse, blah, blah.  I think you and I, along with a handful of others, were the only ones that could OBJECTIVELY discuss Andy on the mothership.  I always had him pegged for 12th to 15th, and I thought that was pretty damn good for 2nd rounder out of TCU who came in as a rookie with no OTAs, a talented but YOUNG surrounding cast, and a change of coordinators mid stream during his development.