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(12-19-2016, 03:47 PM)NATI BENGALS Wrote: Just wondering where the Andy Dalton little drummer boys are? Do we put any of yesterdays loss on our QB? Or do we have some excuses?

Andy is an above average QB most of the time. But his performances in big games leave a lot to be desired. And I am not sold he can get us over the hump.

Little tidbit from the Bengals homepage. Dalton was 25th in the league in 4th quarter passer rating going into the Steelers game. And put up a 47.9 yesterday.

Unless he has a couple more 157 yard games he should break the 4,000 yard mark this year. For only the 2nd time in his career. And he will be lucky to get 20 passing TDs.

It is not impossible to improve on Dalton like some around here seem to think. Absolutely things could be worse at QB. But we could also do better.

51.4
44.7
67.0
63.4
What are those? Dalton's QB rating in his playoff games.

Give a lot of QBs one of the best WRs in the game and one of the best TEs in the game and one of the best defenses. And they too will win games.

Dalton is solid and has a favorable contract. But what if he isn't the answer? AJ McCarron won the games he was supposed to win last year. And almost beat the eventual Super Bowl champs at their house and barely lost a playoff game that we should have won. We have a good team. A top QB would dominate with this team around him (and a non-shitbag head coach).

A top QB would not dominate behind a coaching staff that never called a screen pass when the steelers began loading the box and blitzing almost every down.  

A top QB can't create a target that gets separation when Eifert is being kept in to block, Dalton has no time to throw, and no one fears his receivers getting over the top.  

Where was your assessment of his play earlier in the season, when he had only Eifert or only AJ, but almost never together and was on pace to break HIS franchise records for passing yards and passer rating?  

I get being pissy because they lost to pissburgh, but c'mon.  You are smarter than this, or you would be waving a yellow rag.  Dalton was having a very solid game, while Piggy should have had THREE INTs before the half if any of those clowns could catch a ball.  His coaches game plan was pathetic and his meager semblance of a running game disappeared.  

Dalton's performances in the playoff games are well documented, but he helped get them there, which is more than Palmer could do in 9 seasons with the Bengals, Dalton did it in three, and that was with a team that was supposed to go winless.

I hate always rehashing this same argument.  If you can't handle that Dalton is our QB, I suggest you find another team because he isn't going anywhere and I am damn happy about that.