No More Marvin Loyalty Means Whole New Look

[BengalChris]

(01-23-2019, 01:20 PM)fredtoast Wrote: Dalton has played at an elite level.  He has posted a 106 passer rating for a season.

Dalton has also beaten the following QBs head-to-head when they had Division Champion teams...Tom Brady, Aaron Rodgers, Russell Wilson, Peyton Manning (the good '14 PM not the '15 garbage), and Andrew Luck.

It is absurd to claim that Dalton does not give us a chance to compete with the big boys.

Dalton has not consistently gotten it done and that matters. His 106 rating was for a partial year (13 games). His best passer rating for a complete season was in 2016 at 91.8. The occasional run of good games is great, but when it comes crunch time it all falls apart (way to many examples to list here, but we all know them anyways). The random win against a top flight QB also has to be tempered with the many losses to playoff teams. Overall, he's been average and the bottom rung of the franchise QB ladder.

All of that said, I'm all for seeing what the new coaching staff can do with him. We've got him for 2 more years, so why not see what we can do with him. Just maybe that 106 rating can become normal for him.

More importantly, in my book, is can our personnel department actually find quality players for the OL and LB who will improve these areas *this* year?

We all could see that Ogbuehi wasn't the answer after his second year, even if Mike Brown couldn't. Most of us could see that Hart was likely not going to solve the RT problems, even if the Bengals brass thought he was a solution.