Tom Brady and Andy Dalton against Texans

[Shake n Blake]

(01-16-2017, 03:30 PM)Junglejuice Wrote: IMO I'm an Andy fan but I agree you cannot compare the two.  At the same time though people act on this board act like if you don't have a TB you cant win.
A consistently good to really good QB is pretty hard to come by in the league. And guys like Matt Ryan's 2016 and Andy's 2015 season show you what can be with a really good QB at the helm and a good team around them.  IMO guys like Rodgers, P.Manning, and Tom Brady have been the only guys in the last 10-15 years or so to put their teams on their backs and win almost every year they have played.  They have routinely made decent to below average teams great just by being on the roster.

While it would be wonderful to have a multi generational talent at the helm the fact is that at this moment in time Dalton is not that guy.  At the same time he is more than capable of doing his part to hoist a Lombardy or 2 here.  This team only needs a couple pieces IMO to get there as we have been snake bit the last 3 years with injuries and constantly moving pieces on the staff.  

I fully expect Andy to continue to fall in that fringe top 10 - 12 range with a healthy team behind him.  And I can live with that just fine.  As for coaching.... that's still the one issue holding us back I believe.

This couldn't sum up any better how I feel about Dalton. Really good, but not an elite top 5 guy. Just around top 10. Could perform at an elite level with the right coaching and even semi decent players/blocking. I refuse to blame any more players for the playoff/prime time stuff. That's always been a theme of Marv's tenure, so why blame Andy but no other players?