buddahjoe445
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you can say the same thing about Dak. he played against some defenses that were injured, just in a funk or some other excuse. Dak played against WASH when they rested half their starters and stunk it up like Zach Wilson. you can't cherry pick your stats to justify Dak is more than an average player. you can say the offense would have scored fewer points with Rush, but so would have their opponents since Rush would not have turned it over as much as Dak.That's not true. It was beginning of the seasons and the Bengals weren't good early in the season. They were just an average team with a record of 4-4 at the halfway point in the season. And LA wasn't good all season.
And both Rush and Dak played against the NFCE teams once and they had exactly the same record.
Our defense played lights out when Rush was the QB. We led the league in sacks and pressures and were only giving up 16 points a game which was ranked #1 at the time. Defense started to get bad in November once the injuries started to pile up and were giving up 22 points a game.
the truth is Dak has been one of the luckiest players to every play football. he played on a team that had terrible defenses that allowed him to pad his stats with garbage time stats when he was in the midst of his contract negotiations, leading Jerry to give a contract that bind this team. he is digressing as a player when he should be getting better. as his physical skills are diminishing his mental skills should be expanding but its not. his college scouting report was very accurate and is still the applicable today. unfortunately, this team is stuck with him for several more years, but it should look for its next QB asap.