(01-30-2018, 07:17 PM)Upper Wrote:

(01-30-2018, 07:05 PM)JackCity Wrote: With Blake back for next year you are banking on two things happening.

1) He takes another step forward and becomes a legit franchise QB. We're talking improvement in TD% , INT% , becoming more accurate, better placement, and better all round execution. A big ask. And not by any means likely.

Or

2) That the front office goes after a legit startable QB in this years draft to replace Bortles if he isn't good enough. Or that they go all out in 2019 signing one in free agency or the draft.
Again, I have no reason to trust the front offices ability to identify QB talent. Not likely.

Door #3 scares me a lot too. We go Bengals mode and get paralyzed by the fear of what happens if the next QB doesn't work out that we just sit on our hands with our version of Dalton for 3 more years and watch a super bowl window fly by.

Oh please. Bortles just did what he did this season, with very little receiving options and 7 straight games with a different starting OL group.

Upgrade a Guard or two, give him an actual #1 WR for an entire season and a receiving TE who actually poses somewhat of a threat and see what he can do.

It starts at the top and Marvin Lewis was the HC long before Dalton got drafted there. They made the playoffs twice in an 8 year span before Dalton got there. They then went to the playoffs 5 straight times with Dalton as the QB. They lost every single game and I think that speaks far more on the HC, than the QB. Marvin Lewis has never won a playoff game as the HC, yet it's Dalton's fault that he's such a terrible playoff HC?

Dalton getting them to the playoffs in 5 straight years is a knock on him? Honestly? This team just went 10 straight years without making the playoffs and you're really trying to knock somebody who took his team to the playoffs in 5 straight seasons?

People are literally so spoiled with watching Rodgers, Brees and Brady it's pathetic. Stop acting like every QB needs to be a HoF QB to have any success. We just went through a decade of some of the best QB play we'll ever see and most of you think that's normal or something.

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