Timeout, Who To Blame

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(11-29-2016, 05:40 PM)Stonyhands Wrote: AJ is a backup what do you expect him to come in and be Tom Brady?  It's not like he's had season after season of running with the first team.  Yet he came in and took the eventual Super Bowl champs into overtime.  Something Tom Brady didn't do and neither did Cam Newton.  For all intents and purposes McCarron QB'd us to the best shot this team has had to winning a playoff game in over 2 decades.  Had Hill not fumbled or the defense not imploded it would have been a win.  I'll take McCarron's one game playoff stats over all of Andy's playoff stats every day of the week and twice on Sunday.

If the Bengals were in true rebuild mode like the Browns, I could understand the thought of people (not necessarily you) saying the Bengals should trade AJ and Dalton, start McCarron, and get some high draft picks.

The problem is that the Bengals are not in a rebuild mode. They were expected to make the playoffs and finally win at least one game in the playoffs. It just didn't pan out that way.

Essentially, as someone mentioned in another thread, this team feels like the early 2000's Bucs. The team has gone stagnant or regressed some, but it hasn't missed its window. Replace the HC and a few others, make a true push.