The Million Dollar Arm?

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As many of you know, our very own Cincinnati Bengal Rey Maualuga has a featured role in the new motion picture from Disney, "Million Dollar Arm". If you were thrown off it was probably because he did not go by his actual name, he went by the name PoPo, and he was a terror MLB just as he is in the real NFL.

We were lucky enough to win tickets to see the private showing with other Bengals Friday, 5/16 at the Florence Rave. It was hosted by one of the classiest Bengals, Domata Peko and his lovely wife Anna. Since Rey had practice and had to miss the actual opening of Million Dollar Arm, Domata decided to rent out a room at Rave and invite several Bengals, then went to twitter and gave tickets away to local Bengal fans. Blessed to been given these tickets because the movie did not disappoint and even though Rey had only a few minutes on screen, he dominated those few minutes leaving his fellow teammates chanting Oscar! Needless to say, when Rey is done terrorizing on the Football field we know where he will be heading, HOLLYWOOD!

Now to the question that every Bengal fan is thinking about, what are we going to do with Andy Dalton and his contract? Well we here at NatiSportsNation believe that the Bengals do in fact have our franchise Quarterback in Andy Dalton. Take away the name and let's just look at stats:

Season            TD's       INT's       YDS       Record

2011                20          13             3,398     9-7

2012                27          16             3,669     10-6

2013                33          20             4,293     11-5

Now let's take a look at another QB's number but we won't reveal who we are talking about through their first 3 years in the NFL

Season            TD's      INT's       YDS       Record

2002               17          16            3,284      8-8

2003               11          15            2,108      4-12

2004               27          7              3,159      12-4

You see similar numbers with both of these QB's Andy has thrown 80 TD's in his first three season whereas the later mentioned QB threw 55 TD's through his first three years. Of course Andy has also thrown a total of 11 more INT's but leads in total yards by roughly 3500 yards. The QB we are comparing numbers with Dalton is Mr. Drew Brees himself. MVP, Super Bowl Champ, and has led the league in passing multiple seasons throughout his career. Do we really want to do exactly what the Chargers did and let Dalton go well before his prime, or do we want to stick with the leader of the Bengals offense and continue to let them grow and bring the Lombardi trophy to Cincinnati where it has been desperately waiting to visit. 

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The Bengals have a lot of good players nearing the end of their contracts and they have been spending the off season trying to keep this young core together. They are currently in talks with Burfict who we for sure need to lock up for a long time, and we all know that next year is the year we will probably see the biggest contract for a WR when AJ Green's contract runs out. So what we think the Bengals need to do is offer our Pro Bowl QB Andy Dalton a 4 year 40 million dollar contract and let him bring us home a few Lumbardi's and then when everyone is back on Dalton's side pay the man the real money he deserves.

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