"Getting Everyone Lined Up"

[BengalChris]

(06-19-2015, 07:11 PM)GreenCornBengal Wrote: Every year around this time of the season, fluff pieces begin to come out about various players on various teams.
So and So is faster, Player X gets it this year, Player Y (Clark) has bulked up this off season.

I'm used to this as we all are by this point.

BUT WHY do we discuss how Dalton can now:

"Get everyone lined up correctly.",
"Get our players in and out of the huddle.",
"Is taking more of a leadership role this season."

????

To me, this more than anything points to Dalton being a dud (And I am a huge Andy homer most of the time).

This is the equivalent of the teacher explaining on parent-teacher conference night that their child has improved this year.... by showing up to class with a pencil and putting his name on the top of the paper.

It's fricken year 5.
everyone better know where the hell to line up, and everyone better be getting in and out of the huddle like the seasoned vets they are.
Dalton better be a leader by now, and shouldn't have to help other vets figure out where to line up on a play.
We have a fricken playbook do we not?

I'm no Andy homer, but I also don't grade him as a bad QB either. Just can't stand it when people compare him to the elite QBs in the league when simple observation tells you that he hasn't made the grade yet.

But in all fairness, I've seen Brady have to get after guys about where to line up and I've seen Dalton do it in games. It's more of a function of how green the other guys are. I don't see Whit, AJ Green, Smith or Eifert or Hill or Bernard needing to be told where to go very often.

As you mentioned, this is year 5 and he'll either progress or he won't. There's nothing you or I or anyone on this board is going to say to change that. It's up to him and the team and the number of years the team and fans are going to hang in there with Dalton until he does it is rather limited. He's already lost a chunk of the fans.