11-21-2016, 10:50 AM
(11-21-2016, 05:15 AM)Stonyhands Wrote: People have made excuses for Dalton every single year because they want to so believe he's the one that's going to take us all the way. Truth is the guy gets so much attention when he starts doing things any NFL Qb should be doing. NFL superstars or above average QBs do not need to have star wide receivers, TE, RB and the best o-lines. He's not that good. His pocket presence is below average. His long ball is below average. His accuracy is below average. All he does is check down over and over. Three different offensive coordinators and we still can't run a successful pass offense. I really believe it's because Andy cannot read zone coverage. The offense looks way different with AJ McCarron who throws all over the field and a way better long ball I may add.
Carson's last year I was saying he was done. Nobody wanted to believe it and we would have been stuck with him regressing had he not pulled the plug himself because there's no accountability here. Look no further than Nugent.
I just really wish people would get off Daltons knob for occasionally/rarely doing things any NFL QB should be doing.
Palmer has put up better numbers in Arizona than he ever did here. So while he may have been "done" here, he was certainly not finished in the NFL.
Dalton has had one star receiver, an above average tight end when he is not injured, an average running game, and at times a good offensive line. It's not like he has quarterbacked a team of perennial All Pro's at every position.
(11-21-2016, 07:12 AM)tlotharw Wrote: He's a mechanical, one-read-and-run quarterback that doesn't make players around him better.
Do you even watch the games? A "one read and run quarterback"?? You could use that phrase to describe Michael Vick or Kaepernick, but Dalton is not even a running quarterback...
