As a recovering Falcons fan, I honestly think that Dalton is going to win in Dallas. It's not going to be him necessarily, but life works in weird ways. It would be totally unfair to Dak to play better than Dalton, but somehow the Cowboys do better. It's 2020.....weird things don't stop happening.
As a recovering Bengals fan, I'll talk you through the stages:
1) You are so mad at your team that you actively wish harm on them
2) You decide the organization is so pathetic that you either actively or passively ignore them
3) You feel weird not having a favorite team and wonder if you could ever get into it again
4) You get back into it with no expectations, knowing your organization will forever let you down if you ever start caring too much but you feel OK since you realize it's just a game
@mulli25 was right when he called me out a year or so ago when I bitterly rambled on about how much I supposedly hate a team I followed religiously for 30 years. I'm at Stage #3 but I'd be lying to you if I said that I wouldn't pay serious attention if things changed around in the front office. I'm not holding my breath but a VERY little, delusional, child part of me still has some sort of, well, hope, I guess?
I'd love it if Dalton, the guy who is 0-4 in the playoffs, "gets" the Cowboys deep in the playoffs despite total game manager numbers, Dak loses tens of millions but moves on to Atlanta where he turns the franchise around and cashes in 1 year later and Dalton signs for big money in Dallas and then does Andy Dalton things and gets benched.
Matt Ryan...Boston College.....Pats?
...If Andy Dalton leads the Dallas f***ing Cowboys to a playoff win after what we went through in Cincinnati I'm going to burn this league to the ground.