Dalton has pretty great numbers over the past 5 games

[Shake n Blake]

(11-28-2017, 02:57 AM)BengalChris Wrote: You've seen me say negative statements in other threads and I'm going to do it again. 

Playoffs at this point is a joke. We'll need 9 wins to make it in and we have 5 wins currently. Only problem is there are only 5 games left and two of those are against teams that previously blew out the Bengals this year (Steelers and Ravens). Two more games are against teams with winning records (the Vikings and the Lions). The Bengals have only one win against a team with a winning record this year and that was the Bills who are currently 6-5.

Basically, the Bengals, who have one win against a winning team is going to play 4 teams with winning records over the next 5 weeks.

I'm sorry, but Marvin Lewis isn't that good. This OL is that bad. The team selected the wrong guy to help them this year with the #9 pick. And as decent a QB that Andy Dalton is, he's not good enough to carry this team down the stretch.

If you want to hear delusional thinking, check out this video clip:

http://www.espn.com/blog/cincinnati-bengals/post/_/id/26717/cincinnati-bengals-2017-draft-picks-analysis-for-every-selection

Yeah I ran the ESPN playoff calculator just now and did several scenarios, and it's hard to fine one where the Bengals make the playoffs at 8-8. 

We pretty much have to take 2 wins out of the Steelers, Vikings and Ravens games, while also beating the Lions and Bears. That's hard to imagine.

(11-28-2017, 11:41 AM)WeezyBengal Wrote: Pretty much. I also dont think its any coincidence that Dalton has played better as the offensive line has played better. 

He's played better since the switch to Lazor. 104.1 rating since then.

(11-28-2017, 12:46 PM)Millhouse Wrote: I wouldn't say those are great numbers, but he has had very good 'game manager' type of numbers though in that span.

3500 yard, 32 TD pace is game managing? Game managers lean on run game and defense. We have a terrible run game and an average defense.

Thanks to an all-time worst run game, we're not sustaining drives, so it's going to be hard for Dalton to hit 4000 yards. This doesn't make him a game manager though. He's pretty much our entire offense, not some hack QB borrowing the Ferrari and trying not to wreck it. He's more like Kyle Busch trying to drive a rusty Ford Fiesta at Talladega.