10-29-2017, 11:42 PM
(10-29-2017, 11:05 PM)Shake n Blake Wrote: The Jags ran for 188 and Bortles was barely touched (1 sack for 0 yards) all game. Apples to oranges.
You're really being silly with some of this. Nobody is saying Dalton needs a squeaky clean pocket 100% of the time, with WIDE open receivers...but we are a LONG way from that. We just need a line that isn't competing for "worst in NFL history" and receivers who are open "sometimes" (the quick pressure is also to blame for that...as receivers don't have time to finish routes).
The stuff we saw today (big play on a screen, AJ and Malone got open for the TD's) is something other teams see every damn week (without the 20 pressures and 2.0 yards per carry). In Cincy it's so freaking rare that people like you think they did something special.
Also, nobody said Dalton was "great". Just that he played a gritty game today, considering the constant duress. To your last line, lets not pretend Dalton's only good games have come against the Colts and Browns. That hasn't been the case this year, and most certainly not in his career.
Its not rare. Because people are open. Its just Our QB is running around like a chicken with its head cut off who is only capable of throwing the ball away and has zero accuracy on the move.
Our QB is at an 87 qbr for the year mainly because he put up a good qbr against the browns and colts.
And people act like we have some world beating qb who has us razor close to a super bowl. When the dude has proven he shits his britches when the bright lights are on.
