Andy Dalton was an MVP candidate before bowing out of the Bengals’ Week 14 loss to the Steelers with a thumb injury. Yet somehow, people are already assuming that Dalton’s 2015 season was an outlier in an otherwise mediocre career.
Let’s get something straight: Andy Dalton is a franchise quarterback. Whether he can win a playoff game has yet to be determined, but plenty of past and present franchise quarterbacks have had struggles winning playoff games–most notably, Matthew Stafford, Matt Ryan and Carson Palmer.