ByIan Van Roy

Modified Jan 22, 2026 16:14 GMT

To many long-time NFL fans, Andy Dalton is one example of how a player's reputation

can start sky-high and end up in the dumps. The former perennial Cincinnati Bengals playoff quarterback and current Carolina Panther backup quarterback took some heat from one of his former teammates on a recent podcast episode.

In a Wednesday "Game with Names" podcast clip posted on X, Pacman Jones believed the problem was the quarterback's inability to handle pressure.

"Red Rifle could not take the pressure," Jones said. "When that pressure get on him...Even in ('15) when Andy got hurt, we should have just stuck with McCarron. Should have never went back to Andy."

Julian Edelman asked what Jones' team was thinking at halftime in games.

"Andy, don't fuck the game up. Please, Andy....Red Rifle was fucking horrible, Jones said.

Between 2011 and 2014, Dalton had a four-season run without a missed game. He had a winning percentage above .500 in each year. However, his healthy streak came to a close in 2015 when he suffered an injury and played just 13 games. Still, he managed to finish the year with a 10-3 record.

Dalton made the playoffs between 2011 and 2014, but the quarterback hasn't played in a post-season game since. In those four playoff years, he failed to win a playoff game, Since 2015, Dalton has not finished the season with a record above .500.

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18 minutes ago, Arkansas Bengal said:

ByIan Van Roy

Modified Jan 22, 2026 16:14 GMT

To many long-time NFL fans, Andy Dalton is one example of how a player's reputation

can start sky-high and end up in the dumps. The former perennial Cincinnati Bengals playoff quarterback and current Carolina Panther backup quarterback took some heat from one of his former teammates on a recent podcast episode.

In a Wednesday "Game with Names" podcast clip posted on X, Pacman Jones believed the problem was the quarterback's inability to handle pressure.

"Red Rifle could not take the pressure," Jones said. "When that pressure get on him...Even in ('15) when Andy got hurt, we should have just stuck with McCarron. Should have never went back to Andy."

Julian Edelman asked what Jones' team was thinking at halftime in games.

"Andy, don't fuck the game up. Please, Andy....Red Rifle was fucking horrible, Jones said.

Between 2011 and 2014, Dalton had a four-season run without a missed game. He had a winning percentage above .500 in each year. However, his healthy streak came to a close in 2015 when he suffered an injury and played just 13 games. Still, he managed to finish the year with a 10-3 record.

Dalton made the playoffs between 2011 and 2014, but the quarterback hasn't played in a post-season game since. In those four playoff years, he failed to win a playoff game, Since 2015, Dalton has not finished the season with a record above .500.

https://www.sportskeeda.com/nfl/news-pacman-jones-mince-words-andy-dalton-bengals-stint

I'm sure Andy Dalton was like "Please Adam, can we just get through one offseason without you getting arrested??" "Can we get through the second half without you getting a 15 yard dead ball foul?"

PacMan Jones wasn't a good enough player to criticize Andy Dalton. He just plain didn't earn that right.

Are we sure that @GoBengals isnt PacMan Jones? Has anyone seen them in the same room?

🥷

He's not entirely wrong, but on the other hand Dalton never had to be dragged out of a casino while kicking and spitting at people in a drunken rage.

Also, FWIW, kinda hated the way he rubbed off on DreK. He was a penalty machine just like his mentor.

Not saying Andy was great, at all - but he was a solid QB in Cincinnati, top half of the league IMO - and has had a helluva career overall.

Could they have won more, and more importantly, more impactful (playoff) games with another QB? Yep, I’m sure.

But that doesn’t mean he wasn’t productive. And while I liked McCarron’s makeup, he just wasn’t the QB Dalton was.

My seats are in Section 104. I have been to every home playoff game. Against the Chargers…AD drilled a sideline go-route of 30 yds to Marvin Jones and completed it on a rope. It always amazes me with the “couldn’t get it to them” myth. I saw lots of deep throws with plenty of steam.

Bugger off Adam…you bit on Joey Porter’s taunts and cost the Bengals a playoff win.

4 hours ago, Le Tigre said:

My seats are in Section 104. I have been to every home playoff game. Against the Chargers…AD drilled a sideline go-route of 30 yds to Marvin Jones and completed it on a rope. It always amazes me with the “couldn’t get it to them” myth. I saw lots of deep throws with plenty of steam.

Bugger off Adam…you bit on Joey Porter’s taunts and cost the Bengals a playoff win.

Guy seems to have very little self control, like he'd get into a barking match with a random dog.

7 hours ago, Le Tigre said:

My seats are in Section 104. I have been to every home playoff game. Against the Chargers…AD drilled a sideline go-route of 30 yds to Marvin Jones and completed it on a rope. It always amazes me with the “couldn’t get it to them” myth. I saw lots of deep throws with plenty of steam.

Bugger off Adam…you bit on Joey Porter’s taunts and cost the Bengals a playoff win.

People love to shit on Andy Dalton - All he did was lead The Bengals to what... 5 playoff games? A 3 time pro-bowler? All he did was inherit the team that Carson Palmer said he couldn't win with and take them to the playoffs 5 STRAIGHT YEARS.

Carson and Burrow have only managed to get us to the playoffs twice each. No other Bengals QB has more than 2. I mean - God damn. Maybe the guy isn't Joe Montana, but by this Franchise's low standards, we should be building a f***ing statue of the guy in front of Corporation Name Here Stadium.

I watched Adam Jones and the defense blow it whole lot more than the Offense during those years. And yes - Andy played poorly against better competition - a LOT of guys do. Joe Burrow put up a Goose egg this year against the Ravens.

Adam Jones managed a 4th round career with 1st round talent. MFer played for Winnipeg before us. All Andy Dalton did was work hard and make the most of what god gave him. Who remembers Blaine Gabbert or Jake Locker? Christian Ponder? Dalton has started at least one game a year now for 14 years!

Go look up Adam Bernard Jones on Wikipedia - the only thing he did of note during his Bengals career was cost us a playoff game. Fuck that guy. I remember him being an embarrassment who cost us as many games as he helped us win and was too dumb to understand you have to put gas in a car. Andy Dalton is too much of a Class Act to care what the Class Clown thinks of him.

https://www.nfl.com/news/meltdown-at-paul-brown-stadium-leads-to-bitter-end-for-bengals-0ap3000000620283

Jones, after a brief, profanity-laced rant, left the locker room after indicating he had nothing more to say. However, about 20 minutes later, he called me to explain his actions and to voice his frustration at what he believed was the officials' failure to control the game, especially by allowing Porter on the playing field.

"He ain't supposed to be on the (expletive) field!" Jones said. "He was talking all kinds of (expletive), yelling at (Burfict), saying, 'You a dirty son of a bitch ... Take your bitch ass out of here ...' So I turned to him and said, 'Why are you talking?' I didn't even touch him. And they threw a flag.

"How can they throw a flag on you for talking (expletive) to a coach? Especially to a (expletive) who ain't supposed to be on the field? It'd be different if I was gonna approach a (expletive) player. There's a big (expletive) difference. I mean, Mike Tomlin wasn't even on the field. Why the (expletive) is Joey Porter on the field, period?"
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several players inside the Bengals' locker room -- none of whom wanted his name used, for obvious reasons -- felt that Lewis deserved the criticism, citing a season-long lack of discipline among some defensive players in games, practices and meetings.

"Eventually," one player said, "this (expletive) catches up to you.

andy dalton was fucking dogshit...

he was a noodle arm pussy with no balls, he was handed:

good defense

great o-line

WEAPONS OUT THE ASS.

he walked into a plug n play team built for a real qb who bounced tired of NOT having a team around him.

he them proceeded to be bailed out of pathetic underthrows by aj green, and being the slant and screens champ.

the epitome of his career is the Andrew Hawkins 12 yard touchdown "catch". where andy instead of handing it off, drops it into his hands so it counts as a pass.

he is a bitch and a mediocre nfl player. wasted an entire decade of bengals football. no matter what you KNEW he wasnt going to get it done.

Leon hall has the same amount of playoff touchdowns.

On 1/22/2026 at 5:40 PM, LostInDaJungle said:

I'm sure Andy Dalton was like "Please Adam, can we just get through one offseason without you getting arrested??" "Can we get through the second half without you getting a 15 yard dead ball foul?"

PacMan Jones wasn't a good enough player to criticize Andy Dalton. He just plain didn't earn that right.

you can bitch about off field shit with adam if you want, but ON THE FIELD. andy was fucking dogshit and pacman was a very good corner. and a LETHAL punt returner...

pacman was 10x the nfl player than andy was... pacman wasnt going to piss down his leg when the pressure was on.. andy did it ever..single..time...

without a doubt, without question.. it cant be argued how dogshit andy was when he had to do ANYTHING as. QB aside from a bitch safe pass to a real football player he had around him.

25 minutes ago, GoBengals said:

pacman was 10x the nfl player than andy was... pacman wasnt going to piss down his leg when the pressure was on.. andy did it ever..single..time...

You have got to be kidding me. What a garbage take.

40 minutes ago, GoBengals said:

andy dalton was fucking dogshit...

he was a noodle arm pussy with no balls, he was handed:

good defense

great o-line

WEAPONS OUT THE ASS.

he walked into a plug n play team built for a real qb who bounced tired of NOT having a team around him.

he them proceeded to be bailed out of pathetic underthrows by aj green, and being the slant and screens champ.

the epitome of his career is the Andrew Hawkins 12 yard touchdown "catch". where andy instead of handing it off, drops it into his hands so it counts as a pass.

he is a bitch and a mediocre nfl player. wasted an entire decade of bengals football. no matter what you KNEW he wasnt going to get it done.

Leon hall has the same amount of playoff touchdowns.

He never had the arm or athletic ability to be anymore than average.

Yes he hurt the team in that period

I still use Dalton as the average line for QBs .

13 minutes ago, LostInDaJungle said:

You have got to be kidding me. What a garbage take.

It's a hard take for sure.

Adam was a good corner and kick returner.

Dalton was as average as vanilla ice cream .

One was a locker room disturbance by his offield antics.

Dalton a non leading quiet type.

Good guy but ..

They're both gone now.

For the better..

2 hours ago, claptonrocks said:

They're both gone now.

For the better..

Yeah those 3 straight non-playoff years feel just peachy keen

On 1/24/2026 at 9:02 PM, Le Tigre said:

Yeah those 3 straight non-playoff years feel just peachy keen

I don’t think having PAC Man and Dalton the last 3 years would have made a difference.

With the teams Andy Had, how many rings would Joe have gotten?

7 hours ago, Jungletiger said:

With the teams Andy Had, how many rings would Joe have gotten?

Without Ja'Marr and Tee... questionable.

Its all relative.

4 minutes ago, High School Harry said:

Without Ja'Marr and Tee... questionable.

It’s all relative.

True…Joe1 would have just cruised with that MASH unit 2014 offense. Rex Burkhead at WR vs the Colts?

AJ Green was no slouch

2 hours ago, sparky151 said:

AJ Green was no slouch

Yeah, but I remember that perfect, sure TD against the Chargers that went right through his hands, so that entire team tended to shit the bed at the worst possible moment… 🤷‍♂️

4 hours ago, sparky151 said:

AJ Green was no slouch

I was mainly referring to the playoff game. No AJ there.

AJ was Pro Bowl that season (so was Andrew for that matter)…when it used to mean something

5 hours ago, sparky151 said:

AJ Green was no slouch

And Tyler Boyd was a solid #2

55 minutes ago, Jungletiger said:

With the teams Andy Had, how many rings would Joe have gotten?

2 hours ago, Jamie_B said:

And Tyler Boyd was a solid #2

Never really replaced Boyd in the slot.

Wished they would this year but seems

they'll lean on Gesicki..

I've seen several mock drafts that have the Bengals taking a slot WR in round 3 or 4. Branch or Cooper seem to be popular choices if available.

12 hours ago, sparky151 said:

I've seen several mock drafts that have the Bengals taking a slot WR in round 3 or 4. Branch or Cooper seem to be popular choices if available.

It wont shock me at all if they do.