[Carlota69]

Originally Posted by DJ's left nut

Ah, so nebulous nonsense.

"He makes his teammates better"... How the hell do you figure? He throws the ball to AJ Green. AJ Green makes Dalton better, not vice versa. And lets not act like the Bengals were just a sorry sack of a franchise before he got there - they have a better recent past than the Chiefs do, that's for damn sure. Carson Palmer, Housh, Chad Johnson; that team wasn't exactly hurting to throw the ball over the previous few seasons, especially not when Palmer was healthy.

Meanwhile Alex Smith got drafted to a team that was so !@#$ing bad when he took over that they were drafting #1 overall - how the **** does Steve Youngs play a decade earlier matter one damn bit?

It's the same old crap. You have absolutely nothing except for loaded rhetoric and completely unsubstantiated emotional tripe. No, Alex Smith did not step into a situation any better than the one Dalton did, in fact it was far worse. He didn't go to a team with AJ Green and a stable coaching staff that had spent the previous 7(ish) years installing the same offense. He didn't go to a solid veteran unit that had a bunch of playoff experience. He went to a team that was half a decade removed from being decent, that had absolutely imploded under a bunch of bad coaching decisions and had next to nothing offensively in the cupboard.

But hey, keep on ****ing that chicken.