Pete Prisco ranks NFL starting QBs

[Brownshoe]

(06-03-2016, 12:31 PM)Nately120 Wrote: So basically experts are terrible at analyzing, predicting, and ranking talent BUT here we are 5 years later still using "Everyone thought the 2011 Bengals were going to be terrible" as some sort of proof that Andy Dalton took over an absolutely god-awful and hopeless team?

I'm not targeting this at you specifically, it's just interesting how much stock we put into some knee-jerk and stupid predictions that are 5 years old when it suits our narrative.  For Bengals fans who actually knew the players who were returning to the team after 2010, who WASN'T returning, the fact that we kept this HC that gets an amount of credit, and actually watched the game to still act like Dalton was drafted by the Browns or something is just off-base. We were one-year removed from sweeping a very good division and making the playoffs (you know...that standard by which we declare teams to be totally awesome?). Ah, but Boomer Esiason said we'd be awful so let's just act like Dalton should have been terrified to come to this pathetic franchise! I'm surprised he didn't demand an immediate Elway-style trade.

Ok, rant over.

It was because the Bengals didn't have any offensive weapons going into 2011. plus the defense didn't play well the year before. We still didn't have a very good roster in 2011 if you think about it. The team had some huge holes in it.