Bengals FINALLY bench Dalton

[WhoDey93285]

Dalton-Haters REJOICE!!!!!!

Haha

WHO-DEY!!!! Love it that Andy is proving people wrong. Will be interested to see what people complain about this week.

We're in the midst of a special season boys! drink up!

[HoosierCat]

And Josh Johnson averaged almost 6 yards a carry. Just shows what a mobile QB can do! And unlike Dalton he didn't throw a single pick!

Seriously, I don't blame anyone for doubting Scut coming into the year. But he's opened a big can of STFU the last few weeks. And I suspect no one is happier to see that than his doubters.

[COB]

I love Dalton so much I persuaded my wife to name our new toaster after him. Used up a lot of marital capital getting my way on this, but it was totally worth it.

[COB]

Dalton seems to have found a new best friend in Marvin Jones. On twitter Reedy pointed out that we acquired Jones with proceeds from the Chad trade. Brady probably doesn't like thinking about that while he's reviewing the various chumps he's trying to throw to these days. Hopefully the stress won't lead him to over-gel his hair, or cause him to gaze at the camera in a less-smoldering fashion. Keep on smoldering, Tommy!

[Stripes]

My faith in Andy was strong entering the season, but I admit it was shaken in Cleveland.

That's what I get for letting one game against a very good defense influence my viewpoint too much.

Dalton might find himself on a few MVP watch top tens this week.

[combatbengal]

It was a solid performance by every player on the team! Most complete game I've seen in years! Now if we can keep this type of play up, we're going to go a long ways in the playoffs. but let's not get a head of ourselves. Take it one game at a time. Fins, you're up next; Bengals are coming to town!

I'm not a Dalton basher and he has come a long way. One thing he still needs to work on is that deep ball. Our WR's had to slow up a lot yesterday but made some great catches.

[ArmyBengal]

My faith in Andy was strong entering the season, but I admit it was shaken in Cleveland.

This is exactly how I was, but I recovered quickly.

Seriously though, I doubt there were many that weren't frustrated after THAT game.

[HoosierCat]

Dalton gets a little love from skunkhead this morning, but only after King slurps Stafford dry.

[Sea Ray]

Dalton seems to have found a new best friend in Marvin Jones. On twitter Reedy pointed out that we acquired Jones with proceeds from the Chad trade. Brady probably doesn't like thinking about that while he's reviewing the various chumps he's trying to throw to these days. Hopefully the stress won't lead him to over-gel his hair, or cause him to gaze at the camera in a less-smoldering fashion. Keep on smoldering, Tommy!

For those who say the only reason Dalton is decent is because of AJ Green, I present to them this game vs the Jets...

[COB]

Dalton gets a little love from skunkhead this morning, but only after King slurps Stafford dry.

I'm just about done reading Peter King. He damns us with faint praise. As he often does, he puts a plug in there for Mike Zimmer to get a head coaching job. I'm starting to think he's not that much a fan of Mike Zimmer, but more a fan of a good coach like Mike Zimmer not being in Cincinnati. And his Patriots bias is nonstop, and I just can't handle it. In his list of "things I didn't like", first or second is that Brady threw a pick early in the game and a Dolphins db picked it off leading to a touchdown. Good reporting, how's a dolphins fan supposed to feel about that play? Then later in the same "things I didn't like" column, he writes, "Geez, Tom Brady: It’s so bad you’re throwing to Rob Gronkowski in triple coverage? The good side: Officials gave the Patriots a gift defensive pass interference call on the play." Yea, the good thing, Peter King, is that the refs screwed the dolphins so your boyfriend could get a first down when he didn't earn it. If he wants to write a love letter to the Patriots every week, I don't care, but it bugs me that he puts it in his column which is portrayed as reporting, and is one of the most influential in the NFL reporting world.

[HoosierCat]

Yeah, King always seem to begrudge the Bengals any success. He was raining on the parade even before the season, pooh-poohing their appearance on HK as generating no buzz. It will be interesting to see what this deeper dive he promised into Dalton coming later this week looks like. My guess at a working headline: "Bengals Players, Coaches Too Good for Cincinnati (Crappy Chili), Mike Brown (Crappy Owner)"

[101Airborne]

Yeah, King always seem to begrudge the Bengals any success. He was raining on the parade even before the season, pooh-poohing their appearance on HK as generating no buzz. It will be interesting to see what this deeper dive he promised into Dalton coming later this week looks like. My guess at a working headline: "Bengals Players, Coaches Too Good for Cincinnati (Crappy Chili), Mike Brown (Crappy Owner)"

In his defense, people are too good for Skyline's awful, awful chili. But yeah, I can't stand King. Hell, as some may have picked up on, I can't stand most sports journalism. The good thing is that Andy gets to write his own history with his play and what all those jabbering muppets have to say about it don't mean s**t.

[skyline]

Yeah, King always seem to begrudge the Bengals any success. He was raining on the parade even before the season, pooh-poohing their appearance on HK as generating no buzz. It will be interesting to see what this deeper dive he promised into Dalton coming later this week looks like. My guess at a working headline: "Bengals Players, Coaches Too Good for Cincinnati (Crappy Chili), Mike Brown (Crappy Owner)"

In his defense, people are too good for Skyline's awful, awful chili.

Take it back. I WILL ban you!

[HoosierCat]

Pat Kirwan thinks that Andy is playing his way into a big extension.

Bengals quarterback Andy Dalton was handed the starting job as a rookie in 2011 when Carson Palmer decided not to return. Dalton led the Bengals to the playoffs his first two years but was one and done each postseason with no TD passes.

There is an ongoing debate about Dalton, whether he deserves a contract extension after this season. He made a statement against the Jets, with five TD passes -- though the 49-9 win really is an extension of the previous three games. During a four-game winning streak, Dalton has completed 69 of 104 passes (66.3 percent) for 1,246 yards (311.5 yards per game) and 11 touchdown passes.

As impressive as his production has been, even more important is that the Bengals sit atop the AFC North. As a starter, Dalton is 25-15 for his career and and it's going to be very difficult for management to consider letting him walk when his contract expires in 2014. The right move may be to get an extension done right after the 2013 postseason.

Before this weekend someone I respect in the football said Dalton was about "the 20th best QB in the NFL." I have a feeling Dalton is a lot closer to Nos. 12 to 15, and on a steady climb toward a really nice contract extension.

[skyline]

Let's see how the playoffs go before we worry about extensions.

[HoosierCat]

Let's see how the playoffs go before we worry about extensions.

Playoff performance will surely be a key determining factor, but even making the playoff for a third straight year would be huge. And -- knock on wood -- that's looking very likely at this point.

Hopefully, Dalton makes it easy on everyone by just winning the Super Bowl, at which point no one will care how big a pile he gets handed. But right now, I have no idea how to price him. Is he a $100 million+ franchise golden child? Not yet and maybe not at all. Is he a minimum-wage backup? Obviously not. But where in the middle he falls, and whether his camp would take something less than, say, Flacco...?

I freely admit I am terrified of losing him. Not because I think he's the greatest QB evah, but because half the teams in the league can't buy a decent QB right now. I can't recall any time when so many teams were so lacking at the position.

[HoosierCat]

In his defense, people are too good for Skyline's awful, awful chili. But yeah, I can't stand King. Hell, as some may have picked up on, I can't stand most sports journalism. The good thing is that Andy gets to write his own history with his play and what all those jabbering muppets have to say about it don't mean s**t.

Here 101, you'll love this one, by blithering idiot Adam Schein. After seeing Dalton for the last four weeks, here's his gutsy takeaway:

With Lewis and Dalton, I'll need to see it before I believe it. But with Cincinnati in the midst of an impressive four-game winning streak and Dalton suddenly picking apart defenses like a bona fide franchise signal-caller, I'm closer to believing in this group than ever before.

"Closer to believing." Way to step out on that limb, Adam. Next week: Schein takes a peek down the street that the bandwagon is parked on and briefly considers moving his feet.

[Earendil]

Yeah, King always seem to begrudge the Bengals any success. He was raining on the parade even before the season, pooh-poohing their appearance on HK as generating no buzz. It will be interesting to see what this deeper dive he promised into Dalton coming later this week looks like. My guess at a working headline: "Bengals Players, Coaches Too Good for Cincinnati (Crappy Chili), Mike Brown (Crappy Owner)"

In his defense, people are too good for Skyline's awful, awful chili.

Take it back. I WILL ban you!

I second this post.

[101Airborne]

Yeah, King always seem to begrudge the Bengals any success. He was raining on the parade even before the season, pooh-poohing their appearance on HK as generating no buzz. It will be interesting to see what this deeper dive he promised into Dalton coming later this week looks like. My guess at a working headline: "Bengals Players, Coaches Too Good for Cincinnati (Crappy Chili), Mike Brown (Crappy Owner)"

In his defense, people are too good for Skyline's awful, awful chili.

Take it back. I WILL ban you!

Sorry Skyline, I love you man, but that greasy bowl of cinnamon "chili" they serve in Cincy is unpalatable to me. I make mine with habeneros galore and cover it in jalepenos and chinese peppers. I s**t like a volcano the next day, but if you don't, what's the point?

[101Airborne]

In his defense, people are too good for Skyline's awful, awful chili. But yeah, I can't stand King. Hell, as some may have picked up on, I can't stand most sports journalism. The good thing is that Andy gets to write his own history with his play and what all those jabbering muppets have to say about it don't mean s**t.

Here 101, you'll love this one, by blithering idiot Adam Schein. After seeing Dalton for the last four weeks, here's his gutsy takeaway:

With Lewis and Dalton, I'll need to see it before I believe it. But with Cincinnati in the midst of an impressive four-game winning streak and Dalton suddenly picking apart defenses like a bona fide franchise signal-caller, I'm closer to believing in this group than ever before.

"Closer to believing." :lmao:/> Way to step out on that limb, Adam. Next week: Schein takes a peek down the street that the bandwagon is parked on and briefly considers moving his feet.

Thanks for the good read Hoosier, and that's exactly the kind of thing I mean. WHile the article as a whole was pretty positive, that bit at the end you quoted makes my eyes roll so hard they threaten to pop out of my skull and end up behind the fridge. They hedge their praise so much you'd think they were about to drop their 401k and bet their life savings on a Bengals super bowl. Journalistic integrity does not equal qualifying every statement like you're avioding a lawsuit at the end of a prescription drug commercial.

[Kazkal]

So if we get a Bye in the Playoffs,Is it like a win and they got the monkey off their backs? ^.^

[kingwilly]

AS a general comment, it is funny to see the media cover Brady and Stafford over the last few weeks.

Brady comes down to Cincy, drops a stinkbomb compared to Dalton and not much is made of it. The following week he comes back on NO and they proclaim his excellence, yet again.

Stafford gets outgunned last week at home v Dalton, no one notices. Now, he risks the game on a QB sneak and pulls off a last second win over Dallas, is proclaimed a QB messiah-genius.

It's just media hooplah but just shows how shallow and pathetic the media truly is.

I'm happy that Scut is on a tear. Also happy Jones is getting his game on. He is fast and now with confidence could be the seriously dangerous player we've needed at 2. With Baby Hawk coming back, this team gets more potent, dare I say SB level quality....? Yes, I've said it.

[101Airborne]

AS a general comment, it is funny to see the media cover Brady and Stafford over the last few weeks.

Brady comes down to Cincy, drops a stinkbomb compared to Dalton and not much is made of it. The following week he comes back on NO and they proclaim his excellence, yet again.

Stafford gets outgunned last week at home v Dalton, no one notices. Now, he risks the game on a QB sneak and pulls off a last second win over Dallas, is proclaimed a QB messiah-genius.

It's just media hooplah but just shows how shallow and pathetic the media truly is.

I'm happy that Scut is on a tear. Also happy Jones is getting his game on. He is fast and now with confidence could be the seriously dangerous player we've needed at 2. With Baby Hawk coming back, this team gets more potent, dare I say SB level quality....? Yes, I've said it.

YOu'll get no argument from me on this. Our team as a whole is better than other SB winning teams. Hell, this team is better than the Ratbirds team that won last year. The biggest step of course being the offense turning it on because of better play and new weapons. We have 8 players who can legitimately catch balls. If we had a better bruiser than Law Firm, I'd be predicting an AFCCG at least. Granted my illusions might all be dashed upon the rocks as the season progresses, but the team that showed up to play these last three weeks IS SB quality.

[HoosierCat]

You aren't the only ones to notice.

Definitely worth a minute and a half.

/>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pJodi9I2RM

[Sea Ray]

In an honest moment, what do you think Carson Palmer would give to be here now and throw to the likes of Green, Eifert, Bernard, Jones and Sanu?