{The Ultimate ANDY DALTON Mega Thread}

[West Union KennyG]

(10-20-2015, 03:21 PM)GreenCornBengal Wrote: Andy has figured it out this season, and I believe, will remain our awesome franchise QB for another decade.

Dalton looked great weeks 1-4 last season, but his play dropped as the season went.

In a presser before the season, Dalton emphasized that he needed to stay consistent with what House and the other throwing 'doctors' prescribed him during the offseason. He admitted that during the course of the season, his emphasis on these aspects of his game diminished, as he gameplanned for opponents. His goal this year was to stay true to his training, focusing on his mechanics throughout the season.






Here is an article from Bengals.com describing such a change.

"With the bye week here, Bengals quarterback Andy Dalton is getting an in-season House call from one of the throwing doctors that spent the offseason with him at Dr. Tom House’s quarterbacks camp.

Adam Dedeaux, one of House’s coaches from the USC facility, came to Paul Brown Stadium Tuesday and said there’s not much for him to do during his visit with the NFL’s second-leading passer.

“The way he is preparing for games is showing up on the field. His body movements overall have been very clean,” Dedeaux said. “There were times last year he got out of mechanical efficiency and I haven’t seen that at all this year.”

Dedeaux said they began to see some break down in his mechanics last year starting during the fourth week of the season. But so far so good. When Dalton began his off-season work back in February, one of the changes he made is setting up on-site sessions during the season to make sure there is no drop-off. Dedeaux figures he’ll make at least one more trip back to Cincinnati this year “just to keep him going.”

“We haven’t seen what we saw last year and I think it comes from his attention to detail and sticking to the process,” Dedeaux said.
Hard to argue with the numbers. Dalton is on pace to shatter every significant club season passing record with a 116.1 passer rating that trails only Tom Brady’s 118.4. Brady, another House client, is tied for second with Dalton with 14 touchdown passes, one behind Aaron Rodgers."






I think Dalton has figured it out, and will remain a stud for a long period of time.

This leads me to my next point, our window. Our window is huge now, and will only get bigger.

The AFC is loaded with great QBs, the kicker, they are all old. In 5 years, Manning, Brady, Big Ben, Phillip Rivers and even Eli will be gone. These teams will be churning out new young QBs who will most likely make mistakes.

Meanwhile, here is Dalton, in his prime, and his only competition in the AFC is an Andrew Luck Colts team... and maybe a few others (Bortles? Mariota?)... I think our window of opportunity is humungous if Dalton can maintain his Brady-esque level of play.

Again, this is looking way way wayyyyy too far ahead, but I think there are some great possibilities in the future.
 

This was a great article and gets me excited for the rest of this season and beyond.
Glad to see Dedeaux meeting w/ Dalton over bye week to continue working to improve and not letting up off the gas.  That may be just what the doctor ordered to come out facing what just might be our biggest game of the regular season in week 8.