He hasn't signed a new deal to extend him past this upcoming season, so the heat will be on Dalton to excel and win a playoff games!

He's done better every single year he's been in the league (just under Marino's and Manning's first three years) and yet he gets consistently crapped on by analysts and fans alike. He does make some boneheaded players every so often, but I attribute a majority of those mistakes to Gruden's playcalling and Dalton never having a true veteran QB presence in his NFL career.

Plus, who else would the Bengals have come in and play QB? The free agent QBs are rarely worth signing, and it would be highly unlikely that a FA QB would come in and succeed as Dalton has the past few seasons.

He will never be "Great" but Andy Dalton will always be good and many teams would kill to have a QB like him.