Cincinnati Bengals’ Andy Dalton Won’t Fold in the Playoffs This Year

October 2, 2015   ·   Mike Freeman   ·   Jump to comments

Have you noticed Andy Dalton lately?
No, not the playoff-choking Dalton. I think that Dalton is dead. Not the Dalton who quarterbacks for the Bengals. We used to know them as the Bungles. The paper-bag franchise. That image is also old, deader than dial-up.
Have you noticed Andy Dalton lately? Careful if you read further, because it might not fit the narrative you want to see—or the one you've always believed. That's the sucker narrative. The false narrative. A narrative I always believed until now.
As this season has unfolded, one of the most dramatic—largely unnoticed outside of Cincinnati—transformations has been Dalton. It's true Dalton has always been good in the regular season. He has a .649 career regular-season winning percentage. But after the opening three games, he's been better than ever. Outside of dudes named Tom Brady and Aaron Rodgers, he's played the position as well as anyone.
This is where the haters warp in (and I was one of the...

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