McAlister: 'Injury to insult'

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(12-03-2018, 03:09 PM)Bengalholic Wrote: Lance McAlister shared his observations about yesterday's game. Here are a few:


The Bengals faced 3rd down and 16, 25, 35, 11, 17, 13 and 15 on the day.

Discipline: The Bengals committed 12 penalties for 100 yards, including 8 flags in the first half, the most in a half since 2009. That's 25 penalties in the last two weeks.

The Bengals shuffled their OL: Boling LT, Hopkins LG, Price C, Redmond RG, Hart RT. Each player had a penalty by the midway point of the second quarter. One drive included a hold, false start and hold.

Zampese like play-calling: Joe Mixon rushed 82 yards on just 12 carries. That game was never totally out of control yet just 12 carries? Mixon carries last four games: 12-14-12-11 (5.02 yards per carry).

An announced crowd of 44,392 chose to spend their afternoon at PBS on a 66 degree sun splashed and gusty day. It's the smallest crowd at Paul Brown Stadium since 2011. In reality, there could not have been 35,000 fans in the seats. The announced crowd was 8,175 below the next smallest crowd in the NFL Sunday (52,568 TB hosting Carolina).

Down two scores, the Bengals appeared to be taking their own sweet time on offense in the 4th quarter.

Down 21-10 and facing 4th & 7 on their 31 yard line with about 6:00 left, Marvin punted. Yep.

The Bengals have now been outscored 167-93 in the second quarter this season.

Special teams were once again a debacle. What's up with Kevin Huber? Penalties. Erickson fumble. Brutal day.

I'm really curious to know if the Bengals would consider moving on from Dalton this offseason and try a new QB.
Obviously, they could release Dalton to free up $16.2 mill in 2019 and $17.7 mill in 2020.
But I do wonder what they could get in a trade with perhaps a team like the Jags. Would a team actually want to give up a first rounder for Dalton? If not, would a second rounder be fair and realistic?
(I bring up Dalton because this team seems to be trending toward a rebuild and new HC for 2018)