09-12-2024, 11:18 AM
(09-12-2024, 10:23 AM)Nately120 Wrote: Short answer, because Andy Dalton was taken at #35 overall with our second pick of the draft and Joe Burrow was taken #1 overall and we likely turned down the chance to get 2+ 1st round picks if we were willing to take the second QB off the board instead of him.
I'm glad we have Burrow and all but even jokingly comparing him to Dalton isn't grand.
It would be a comparison in that they would each have a nickname, not as a comparison of talents. The implication is that Joe is a world-beater but he has a hard time getting started each season, which I think is fair enough at this point. Once he does, though, look out! On the other hand, Andy could never escape Bad Andy. It was a Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde situation, and we'd start a game wondering if Hyde was going to show up. If it was a playoff game there was a good chance you'd see him. Or, maybe we should have called that playoff guy 'Mediocre Andy.' But, I digress. The point is, the only comparison was in having a nickname, not in an assessment of abilities or ceilings. Clearly Joe was superior in both regards.
