More Schein Love

[CJD]

(05-27-2021, 09:05 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: His first 6 years the Bengals had a 56-35-2 record, went to the playoffs 5 times, and Dalton was a Pro Bowler 3 times.

If you're baffled then that's a problem with your memory or how you're choosing to remember that time. 

You might point to the fact that he didn't win a single game out of his 4 playoff games, but I would pin that problem more on Marvin than Andy. Marvin had 4 different QBs in playoff games and all of them sucked and lost. 1 or maybe 2 QBs? Might be the QBs. 4 QBs? There's something more.

He's not on the team anymore. You don't need to defend him. We did well with him when he was younger because the team around him was really, really, really good. He was average or worse his entire career except for 2015 when he had probably the best roster in the NFL around him. Have you already forgotten "Bad Andy?"

We had opportunities to upgrade him, but chose not to because we, foolishly, believed we were "just one player away" from winning that playoff game. We were so obsessed with a short term goal, winning a single playoff game, that we failed to build for a long term, successful run with an actually talented QB.

Andy Dalton was the perfect back up QB, but he should not have been a starter for a decade. Especially with absolutely no competition every single year. It's almost like the coaches were afraid to even try to improve the position.

If you don't agree with that, then your memory is the one that is faulty, not mine.