11-13-2015, 03:50 PM
(11-13-2015, 03:33 PM)fredtoast Wrote: There is no evil conspiracy here. Andy Dalton was not like the average "average-to-good" quarterbacks who muddle along putting up decent numbers. Dalton was known for his ability to have great games and then real stinker games. His best was very good, but his worst was the worst of the worst.
So it was only natural for people to come up with "good Andy" and "bad Andy". Even the people who were most critical of Dalton admitted that when he was "on" he was better than most other QBs. Andy Dalton was defined more as an "inconsistent" QB than a "bad" QB.
I'll never understand why certain people get so upset about those terms, especially since they've been very reasonable to use over the years.
There have been so many QBs over the years that have fallen into the range of not as good as Brady, Rodgers, Roethlisberger, Rivers, etc. but not as bad as the journeymen or young guys thrown into the mix on revolving door teams at the bottom of the league.
Andy had a clear distinction from most of the others in those middle tiers, and as you said, it was because he was just flat out inconsistent where others were stuck in the middle for not having a high ceiling nor a low floor.
You said it very well with this post.
