10-30-2019, 08:26 AM
So many Dalton fans here, he has won zero playoff games. Throughout his whole career, except 1 year, he rarely shows/showed the propensity to take a game over. He is a good backup QB on every other team, but ours, apparently before now. We're 0-8. We aren't getting to a playoff birth in the next years (plural), and winning record is questionable. As far as we can tell, he is not a vocal leader either. 4 weeks ago during the Steelers game, a few announcers noted it was probably Dalton's last year in Cincy and how little fire he showed while they were getting blasted by the 3rd string QB. He's accepted losing. They said he couldn't even "fake" the fire since it was a prime time game. He's "allowed" to show no energy or fight and "hide in a 1PM game.", but not prime time.
Stop being happy with extreme mediocrity. It's not good enough to make the playoffs or "win a playoff game". There is only 1 goal and the Bengals don't even have baby steps towards it.
that said, Finley has to win 1 game in 8 to be "better". I think it will happen. We can reminisce 10 years from now about Andy Dalton and the wasted time/opportunity, whatever teams actually want an Andy Dalton will be as a backup. Name another NFL team that wants him as a starter that can reasonably win a superbowl.
We need a QB who will take the ***** game over.
When you lose games, someone has to take responsibility. People get fired, people should get traded, etc. Other teams have demoted their QBs, fired their offensive coordinators, fired their coaches for way less than the BS we put up with.
I don't feel bad for Andy. He's a good guy, he's had an NFL career, he has way more money than most or all of us, a gorgeous wife and children. It all comes to an end at some point. Maybe he hit his potential on this trash team, he probably did. I think nobody is afraid of Andy Dalton at the end of a game, that is one trait we need in our QB, "we gave them the ball back with a minute left, shit". 2015 is long gone. One thing this team has been bad at is taking too long to make changes (or in some existing cases, never making them at all). Jeremy Hill, Mike Nugent, Marvin Lewis, Andy.
Tough to be a fan of this team when Mike Brown is still alive, feels like what prison might be like.
Stop being happy with extreme mediocrity. It's not good enough to make the playoffs or "win a playoff game". There is only 1 goal and the Bengals don't even have baby steps towards it.
that said, Finley has to win 1 game in 8 to be "better". I think it will happen. We can reminisce 10 years from now about Andy Dalton and the wasted time/opportunity, whatever teams actually want an Andy Dalton will be as a backup. Name another NFL team that wants him as a starter that can reasonably win a superbowl.
We need a QB who will take the ***** game over.
When you lose games, someone has to take responsibility. People get fired, people should get traded, etc. Other teams have demoted their QBs, fired their offensive coordinators, fired their coaches for way less than the BS we put up with.
I don't feel bad for Andy. He's a good guy, he's had an NFL career, he has way more money than most or all of us, a gorgeous wife and children. It all comes to an end at some point. Maybe he hit his potential on this trash team, he probably did. I think nobody is afraid of Andy Dalton at the end of a game, that is one trait we need in our QB, "we gave them the ball back with a minute left, shit". 2015 is long gone. One thing this team has been bad at is taking too long to make changes (or in some existing cases, never making them at all). Jeremy Hill, Mike Nugent, Marvin Lewis, Andy.
Tough to be a fan of this team when Mike Brown is still alive, feels like what prison might be like.
