This thread is a hilarious time capsule. All the Brady Quinn hype… quickly followed by zero posts after September of 2007, when everyone realized how that was going.
Then a bump in 2018 for Baker the savior!
I was a huge Baker guy. Thought he would be the best QB from that draft class for sure, and thought his attitude was what Cleveland needed to get out of the hole… but maybe that attitude swings a bit too much to the extreme, and it has now become a detriment for a team that doesn’t need an emotional miracle worker anymore.
It also makes me appreciative and amazed that the Bengals were able to go from Palmer to Dalton to Burrow (with a Kitna and a Fitzpatrick thrown in there randomly for a couple seasons), while seeing the QB graveyard that much of the rest of the NFL becomes. Dalton might have been a playoff dud, but the Bengals somehow avoiding a long stay in NFL QB purgatory is a result of luck as much as anything.