Andy Dalton & Comparative QB Stats...

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(09-29-2015, 11:53 AM)djs7685 Wrote: Well, it's not "literally" only the playoffs. He has had his issues beyond that, but the playoffs are a big issue for him and the Cincinnati Bengals team in general.

The stats just tell us more of what we already know. Andy has been better than most guys who aren't clearly deserving of a top 10 QB ranking.

At the end of the day, Andy is playing great this season which is all that matters for the time being. It sucks that he couldn't look this good in the past, but I'm more concerned with the present and future right now. Andy looks like a fantastic QB this year, and let's hope he continues!

He WILL have bad games though, so I hope a lot of people don't jump off the bandwagon the first time he throws a dozen or so bad passes in a game. It's going to happen at some point, but we need it to not be in the playoffs and not be a frequent occurrence in 2015.

Maybe this Andy has turned a corner and won't make ten or twelve bad throws in a game.  He has, after all, made a bunch of great throws that maybe we've never seen him make.

And maybe, even if he does have a bad Andy day, maybe he finds a way to overcome them.  Maybe the new definition of Bad Andy will be makes a couple bad throws or turns it over a couple times but doesn't let them sink him, like this past Sunday.

Let me put it this way, I see a different Andy Dalton so far.  This Andy seems more poised, more resilient, more capable of overcoming adversity and less likely to create adversity.  I am cautiously optimistic that this Andy is firmly on the right track.