Andy Dalton is for real

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(09-13-2016, 01:08 PM)Shake n Blake Wrote: Exactly. Either way, it's pretty bad when people have to complain about passes that were completed. If you turn the same hyper critical eye at any QB, there will be deep throws where the WR has to adjust his speed and/or turn to make the catch. Nodody throws nothing but dimes. That said, Dalton has thrown plenty of dimes, and I'd say the LaFell throw was pretty close to perfect.

Since it was me that Joelist was responding to me there I feel like I should respond to your response to him. Let me first say that I gave Andy credit for the amazing game and anyone who tries to turn innocent observations of Andy's throws into a Homer/Hater argument is doing a disservice to the type of deep discussions this message board can have. I would argue that, no, Andy's big throws down field yesterday were not close to perfect. Were they good enough? Obviously. We won the game. But for those of us who want Andy's development to continue, one area that clearly needs to be addressed is leading WRs down field. It's just not something that is not Andy's best attribute. Luckily enough for him, that works out a lot of the time because AJ Green is without a doubt the best player in the league at coming back and going up to get the ball. If you go back and look at my first comment at the end of page 4 it was just a simple observation on how Dalton could improve. Unfortunately, someone who refused to acknowledge publicly available knowledge as well as posted footage decided to argue about something that, one would think, would be a simple and obvious enough observation to build constructive conversation from. But this is Jungle noise, so I digress.