Dalton's replacement

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(03-25-2018, 12:25 PM)Shake n Blake Wrote: Depends on how long we're talking. If Dalton were hurt for an entire season, I didn't have any faith in McCarron to keep us winning for an entire season. After all, he did go 2-3 as a starter in a season where we were 10-2 with Dalton. His only wins came against terrible 49ers and Ravens teams led by Gabbert and Mallet.

If we're talking 3-4 games, I think Barkley can do a similar job to McCarron. In 6 starts, he led the Bears to 21+ points 4 times. With the Bengals defense, that'd be good enough to pull out a win a couple times and keep us afloat, assuming we're in it.

Which means squat to me, because Dalton had all of offseason to prepare as the starter with a few years under his belt starting, where as McCarron missed a most of his rookie season. By the time McCarron started in his second year after Dalton went down, he had very limited playing time in preseason with scrubs, and limited snaps in practice with the first team.

Anyways not to derail this into a McCarron thread (which you as a mod started   )I will take McCarron and quite a few backup qbs that were on the market in a second before who the Bengals currently have. Which was my original point, because I have no confidence in either of the two guys period, regardless who their predecessor was.