What a franchise QB can do

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(01-22-2020, 10:44 AM)TheBengalsMind Wrote: If anyone wants to know know what a franchise QB can do, all you have to do is look at the Bengals themselves.

If you ask Bengals fans what the worst decade for us was, it'd be unanimous that it was the 90's.

Look at that 1997 season, we weren't looking good under Jeff Blake that year, here comes Boomer Esiason.

Boomer had come in the 2nd half and lead us to victory over the winless Colts in week 11.

They start him in week 13, he leads us to 4-1 record. If our defense showed up against the Eagles in a 44-42 shootout we would have won all 5 games.

He was a direct result of 5 of our 7 wins that year.

That team was probably a 3-13 team that year talent wise, which is what the team was when he decided to retire.

Just by walking out on the field we were 4 games better and nearly 5 games better by having a franchise quarterback.

Now Jeff Blake was a solid quarterback, he could run and he was solid throwing the football and he was a good guy and hard worker, but Boomer Esiason was just better.

I don't mean to make it out that Jeff Blake wasn't a good player, because he certainly was, but that of the two Boomer Esiason was the franchise quarterback.

OFF TOPIC: my favorite pass I've ever seen thrown was a Blake-to-Pickens pass. I don't remember who we were playing, but the offense is around their own 20 yard line. Blake does a 7-step drop and launches a pass that arced so high, it went offscreen. Please note: the camera was not zoomed in. We're talking the entire offense and defense was visible with the exception of Pickens and I think Darnay Scott and the CBs covering them. The pass just went offscreen and eventually came down right into Pickens hands somewhere around the opposing team's 40. Dude didn't have to jump, slow down, nothing. Just dropped right in there. I was in awe. It was a beautiful pass. so amazing. Don't remember anything else about that game but that one pass.