McCarron hype gaining steam

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(06-30-2015, 10:21 AM)PDub80 Wrote: No kidding.

Also, why look past the QB? Because fans have chosen to like him? The QB position is the most important on the field and there isn't a close second. If he's bad everything else falls apart. He's been really awful so why look past him? Because it hurts fan's emotions if they support the guy.

I've lived around a number of varying fanbases and they all criticize the QB unfairly.  I lived in Chicago and they wanted Caleb Haney or Michael Vick over Cutler, or just didn't like Cutler (despite having possibly only 3 good QBs in their entire 90+ year history and showed no ability to trade, sign, or draft a decent QB in decades).  Some Steeler fans wanted Pig Ben benched for Byron Leftoversandwhich despite the fact that the Steelers were en route to winning a Super Bowl that year (these people don't admit benching Ben would have been a bad idea in hindsight, either), and so on and so forth.

I was paying attention to the Raiders and Cardinals as Palmer was/is the QB and there had been more than 0 people chanting for Pryor/Stanton/Logan Thomas to start.

Basically, every team has people that want the QB benched regardless.  The whole "we know what we have in ______, let's see what ______ can do, why not?!" is a statement uttered by people who don't have NFL-related jobs to lose and probably no one else. Still, Bengals fans are the only ones that I've heard defend a QB with Dalton's statline in the post-season, but the fact that he makes it to the post-season to fail is a bittersweet boon, I guess.