Sporting News Ranks AJ McCarron League's Best Backup QB

[BengalChris]

(07-17-2016, 04:26 AM)Brownshoe Wrote: It's not above proving something right to me, it's about proving that McCarron did a good job in the playoffs. You can't do that either, because it didn't happen. The only thing McCarron did was dink and dunk. The defense played like a SB defense, and the people around McCarron didn't play bad at all. McCarron gave up a lot of sacks and fumbled the ball quite a bit this game, because he held onto the ball too long and had happy feet. The only drive that was ok was the last real drive of the game, where Green had to stop and jump up for the ball to get the TD.

First drive might not have been all of his fault, but he still didn't play well there. If he would have made a good play the Bengals might have had a first down. - Punt

The second drive McCarron dinked and dunked a couple of short passes where his weapons gave him as many yards through YAC as he did through the air, and McCarron having happy feet and giving the defense a sack. - Punt

The third drive McCarron couldn't even get a 1st down. - Punt

The fourth drive there were two fumbles one being 100% McCarrons fault, and other because of the center snapped it early. -Punt

The fifth drive he threw an incompletion and then an interception. - INT

The sixth drive he threw a screen to Gio and then two incompletions. - Punt

The seventh drive he threw a couple of short passes and then got a sack/fumble since he is terrible against pressure. -Fumble

The eighth drive he completed a meh pass to Green (Green was wide open and Green had to make a nice catch from it going out of bounds) and then he threw two incompletions. - Punt

The ninth drive he completed a couple of short passes and fumbles the ball and then Gio gets ktfo. - Fumble

The tenth drive he gets a ticky tack PI call and no other completions. -Hill TD (which started on the Steelers side of the field)

The eleventh drive RBs were involved in 46 out of 70 yards the offense. -FG

The twelfth drive we started on the Steelers side of the field and he threw a TD pass to Green. -Green TD

The thirteenth drive Hill fumbled. -Fumble

So out of all of those drives, he had one drive that you could argue was good (the twelfth). The rest of the game he looked like garbage, and the defense looked like the best defense in the league. What did he contribute to? Giving the Steelers the ball with good field position? The offense couldn't open up at all because McCarron was dinking and dunking and had trouble with any intermediate or long throws. I don't know how you think that McCarron did anything but awful that playoff game. It's probably because you fantasize about McCarron every night.

Those 3 drives were better than any of the entire games played by a Bengals offense in 10 years. And, AJM has matched Dalton's 4 playoff game TD total in only one game. Plus, he had 1 INT, which is better than Dalton's average of 1.5 per playoff game.

If I were to believe your argument of the rest of the team sucking for Dalton, but that the rest of the team almost winning it for AJM, then ask yourself, do you want a QB the rest of the team will play well for in the playoffs or do you want a QB the rest of the team sucks for?