11-18-2018, 08:18 PM
(11-18-2018, 07:11 PM)rfaulk34 Wrote: Here's the thing...and this is not a bashing post. He certainly did things to keep them close and he gave Core an opportunity at the end and Core 100% blew it.
The problem is, better QBs make plays earlier in the game...the one's Dalton missed today, so that it's not always necessary to have to make a game winning drive. Yes, Bullock missed a makeable FG. Yes, Dalton doesn't have a lot of his regulars. The fact is, he had opportunities to make a play plenty of times and he failed. It doesn't make him a bad QB. He's an average QB who is able to focus and produce more times than not at the end of the game. What the Bengals need is a guy that can make those plays that he missed so it doesn't come down to a game winning drive against this Ravens team, a team that regardless of the rushing yards, couldn't put the Bengals away until a 4th down miss.
He gets zero help from Lazor with his bland formations and play calling but when he drops back to pass, it's 100% on him to put the ball where a receiver can make a catch and yards. When this team is short-handed like they are now, he doesn't do that enough to be considered as anything other than average in the entire course of the game.
Not being salty with you at all, but I have to respond with a simple question: What kept us in this game til the very end?
Run game was shite.
Receivers are mostly shite.
Defense was shite.
What does that leave?
Not saying Dalton was perfect today by any stretch, but with the way the team around him played, we had no business losing this game by 3 with a chance at the very end. I think Dalton is the main reason this game was even close. He's not Drew Brees, and tbh even Brees had a bunch of 7-9 type years when the team was crap around him.
The training, nutrition, medicine, fitness, playbooks and rules evolve. The athlete does not.
