Bengals quarterback Andy Dalton said if it had been the regular season, he would have stayed in Saturday night’s game. But since it was the third pre-season game and his neck had just awkwardly turned under about two tons of humanity at the goal line on his fourth-and-one touchdown sneak, the Bengals gave him the rest of the night off in the 21-10 victory over the Bears.
“I was just sitting at the bottom of the pile,” Dalton said. “I really couldn’t move and my head was in an awkward position . . .I threw well on the sideline and was just honest with them about how I felt and they said, ‘Let’s just not worry about it and get it right.