06-19-2019, 12:15 AM
(06-18-2019, 09:28 PM)Nately120 Wrote: Dalton is pretty good, but I think he gets overlooked here because the only year he was really vying for the top-tier compared to his peers is 2015 where he ended the season on IR. Anderson, Esiason, and Palmer had All-pro seasons and times where they were (somewhat briefly here, for Palmer, admittedly) in the top tier with their peers.
Anderson, Esiason, and Palmer also had times where they were pretty mediocre-to-bad here at times, as well.
Carson threw 20+ INTs here in two different seasons... Andy only has one season like that, but at least he had 33 TDs that year
Boomer had 3 seasons here where he finished with more INTs than TDs (and one other where he came really close)... Andy's never done that.
Anderson had *6* seasons where he couldn't manage more TDs than INTs. In 1978 he had 10 TDs vs 22 INTs! (And yes, it was a different game back then, but come on, those are bad numbers)
So is the ceiling as high for Andy as it was for any of those three guys? No, but his floor has been higher and that's a big reason why Andy's lead the Bengals to more playoff appearances than any of the others.
