05-08-2019, 09:33 AM
(05-07-2019, 08:47 PM)jj22 Wrote: He's the QB and he couldn't only dream to have lead his team to (a Marvin Lewis lead team at that!) 5 consecutive playoff runs. Maybe it'll come but it hasn't yet.
Intangibles. Somethings missing with him. Maybe his stats will keep him around the league long, but winning is what counts. Stafford has the stats, many of the qb's have better stats, but if your team is winning (mostly, although the last 3 years has been rough). Then that's the only stat that matters.
Would you take "Franchise QB" stats (Stafford, Bradford, Cutler, Flacco etc) and sacrifice the wins?
We had one in Palmer and what did that get us.
Stat's impress the media and that's why they turn a blind eye to the lack of team success for these qb's, but winning should be what fans want.
Stafford is the one that had me wondering why the media's mind was so made up about Dalton. Why weren't they mocking qb's to Detroit? Why has he got such a long leash with them. I used to think the same about Bradford and Cutler.
People would argue they were better than Dalton. But if their teams couldn't consistently win.... Then you take the QB who can.
Winning doesn’t fall solely on the QB, what a stupid way to gauge a QB. Football is the ultimate team sport and you need a well rounded team to get wins. Dalton has had that for the majority of his career (again, from 2013-2015, the Bengals had one of the, if not THE, most talented roster from top to bottom.) Some of Dalton’s talent has left and the Bengals haven’t won more than 7 games for the past three years straight, but you’re going to come in saying “pick the QB who can win”?
The vast majority of QBs on that list are well ahead of Dalton. Stafford, Ryan and Cam are all top 10 QBs with Kirk on the borderline. I like Dalton but Insure hope you aren’t trying to put him up there with Ryan or Cam, because that is laughable.
