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(10-21-2015, 02:23 PM)Wes Mantooth Wrote: Andy has played absolutely great to start the season.  No doubt.  But Andy is not great (elite) yet.  If you're building a team, and you start going down the list of the guys you want at QB, Rodgers and Brady are going to top that list right now.  Most likely guys like Rivers, Rapes McGee and Brees and going to go next.  And there's a very good chance Andy goes in the next group, among names like Ryan and Wilson.  There is nothing wrong with saying that.  It's no knock on Andy. 

Great start.  Good QB.  Can we all just agree on that? 

I would say that if you are calling "great" and "elite" the same thing, and you are going to define that as (roughly) the top 3 in their position group, then based on their careers to date Andy is not elite.

However, if you base your evaluation on his contemporaries that have similar years of experience in the NFL (Wilson, Luck, Tannehill, and maybe Matt Ryan and Matt Stafford) then I would absolutely have to put him in the top 3 of that group as things sit today. 

Maybe it is the red hair.  Maybe it is the fact that he isn't 6'5" and 235 lbs.  I bet Drew Brees had a lot of this when he was getting started, but he overcame it.  Andy Dalton is playing great QB, and is the best VALUE in the NFL at the position.