There are plenty of teams that are entering the 2015 season with quarterback situations worse than the Bengals, who will be riding a four-year string of playoff appearances with Andy Dalton into Dalton’s fifth professional season.
That record doesn’t protect Dalton from criticism, though. In fact, it might draw criticism his way because those playoff appearances have all been one and done as the Bengals have faded from view with a whimper once the postseason started. Dalton doesn’t pretend that he’s ignorant of the negativity.
“As much as I want to say I don’t look at it and I don’t see it, with the world today, it’s hard not to see stuff,” Dalton said, via ESPN.