10-29-2019, 10:54 PM
(10-29-2019, 10:02 PM)Fan_in_Kettering Wrote: 68-58-2. Not too bad!
With this organization? That's F'ing miraculous. I'm going to miss Andy. He wasn't the best, but he was solid and always was at least trying. That's a hell of a lot more than I can say for a certain quitter of a QB we had before him.
Notable Bengals QB's and their W/L record:
Ken Anderson 91-81 (52.9%)
Boomer Esiason 62-61 (50.4%)
Palmer 46-51 (47.4%)
Andy Dalton 68-58-2. (53.1% best of the bunch even with the two ties)
Say what you want, when the Bengals have a guy wearing #14 under center they win more than they lose.
I know how badly a bunch of y'all wanted Andy gone or benched, I was never in that camp. I don't have enough confidence in our front office or coaching staff to go out and draft the right QB at the top of round 1. Nor do I have confidence in the coaches to coach up a rookie. And I certainly don't have confidence in any of them in performing a tear-down and re-build. Some of you think (with no evidence whatsoever) that they can pull it off, I see decades of evidence that that isn't the case and choose to side with history.
There's a ton of blame to go around for this disaster of a season, but save for that 5 play span in the Jacksonville game, Andy wasn't the problem (he wasn't the solution either, but he wasn't the problem). That O-Line is the worst I've ever seen, on any NFL team, including our 2017 line. When the defending AFC rushing leader gets 2 yds on 10 carries you know the line is beyond bad. The defense plays like it's flag football by outright refusing to tackle, & the LB's couldn't cover a dead body let alone a TE, HB, or WR in the slot.
I don't think they're truly that far off from being competitive again, it's really all in the O-Line and LB core. Those two units are so catastrophically bad on their respective sides of the ball that it makes everything else around them look pitiful just by being associated with them. But hey...we're going to get a new QB come April who doesn't block, tackle, or cover! That'll fix everything! And if the last 6 years are any indication, that shiny new QB'll be on IR before the pre-season even starts! WOO!
OK, ranting over. Godspeed #14 (part deux), may you land on or find a team in the off-season that'll bother to give you actual NFL caliber linemen to block for you!
