The Carolina Panthers will be without their rookie signal caller Bryce Young for the Week 3 game against the Seattle Seahawks. The first overall pick in the 2023 NFL Draft is dealing with an ankle injury, and the Panthers will face the Seahawks with veteran Andy Dalton under center.

According to the Panthers’ head coach Frank Reich, Young got hurt during the Monday Night Football loss to the New Orleans Saints and will be out for one to two weeks. However, as soon as he’s ready, the Alabama product will get back his starting job.

“Bryce has done well this week,” Reich told reporters. “I’m optimistic he’s on the right path. Whatever the soonest he can get back is, he will get back. And when he gets back, he’ll be our guy.”

Young has struggled so far in his young NFL career, completing 59.2% of his passes and throwing for just 299 yards in two games. He has two passing touchdowns and has thrown two interceptions.

Dalton, who is in his 13th season as a pro, is expected to provide a boost to the Panthers’ offense thanks to his experience and reliability. The 35-year-old is 83−77−2 as a starter, completing 62.5% of his passes and throwing for 38,150 yards, 244 touchdowns, and 144 picks.

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The Washington Football Team routed the Dallas Cowboys on Thanksgiving, winning 41-16 and moving into first place in the NFC East.

The Football Team has now swept their season series with the Cowboys, beating them in both meetings. Their offense was led by a brilliant performance by rookie running back Antonio Gibson, who rushed for 115 yards and three touchdowns.

The Cowboys got a less-than-stellar performance from their big-money running back Ezekiel Elliot, who fumbled the ball yet again and now has a whopping six fumbles on the season. Elliot only ran the ball 10 times for a miserable 32 yards from scrimmage.

The Football Team’s defense also had a great day, sacking Dallas quarterback Andy Dalton three times and getting a pick-six off him as well.

The Cowboys played poorly in every facet of the game and even had a fake punt attempt deep in their territory in the fourth quarter that was poorly executed and didn’t fool anyone.

With Gibson running wild, Washington quarterback Alex Smith didn’t need to do much but did put in a steady performance, completing 19 of 26 passes for 149 yards, one touchdown, and one interception.

Washington needs both the New York Giants and Philadelphia Eagles to lose this week in order to stay in first place in the division.

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Veteran quarterback Garrett Gilbert almost lead Dallas Cowboys to a win against the unbeaten Pittsburgh Steelers on Sunday, but this won’t be enough for him to keep the starting job. According to Dallas’ executive vice president Stephen Jones, Andy Dalton will retake his spot as Cowboys’ starter as soon as he becomes available.

Dalton had an unfortunate past couple of weeks, first suffering a concussion against Washington and then testing positive for COVID-19. This opened up an opportunity for Gilbert, who started against the Steelers and managed the game well while also throwing for 243 yards and a touchdown.

Speaking on 105.3 The Fan on Monday, Jones praised Gilbert’s performance but quickly removed any doubt about the team’s commitment to Dalton.

“When he’s cleared, we fully expect him to step in as our starter,” said Jones.

In order for Dalton to resume his place under center, he’ll need to get a negative COVID-19 test while also being cleared of the concussion.

Andy Dalton signed with Dallas in the offseason to be a backup for Dak Prescott. But following Prescott’s season-ending injury, the three-time Pro Bowler got the opportunity to lead the Cowboys’ offense and show that he can still be a starter in this league.

So far, however, Dalton was far from impressive. He has only 452 passing yards and one touchdown in four games while throwing three interceptions and fumbling the ball twice.

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In their first game without their star quarterback Dak Prescott, the Dallas Cowboys had a miserable outing on Monday night, losing 38-10 to the Arizona Cardinals.

Prescott suffered a gruesome ankle injury in the team’s win against the New York Giants last week and will not be coming back in 2020. Former Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Andy Dalton stepped in for the Cowboys and led a fourth-quarter drive to get the victory over the Giants.

However, he couldn’t get much going against Arizona. With Prescott out, the Cowboys had to rely on their star running back Ezekiel Elliott, who had a miserable game against the Cardinals, fumbling the ball twice.

Cardinals quarterback Kyler Murray got off to a slow start and was fairly inaccurate throwing the ball all game, going just 9-24 for 188 yards. However, he managed to connect for two touchdowns with Arizona wide receiver Christian Kirk, which was enough to secure the win against Dallas’s struggling offense and porous defense.

Dallas is still in first place in the underachieving NFC East with a 2-4 record. They will look to right the ship on Sunday against division rivals the Washington Football Team, who lost to the Giants on Sunday and are currently in last place in the division with a 1-5 record.

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Andy Dalton might have only signed a one-year contract with Dallas in early May, but he’s convinced that his stay in Dallas is set to put him in a position to finish his career strong after being released by the Cincinnati Bengals earlier in the offseason.

Dalton, who was let go by the Bengals after his former team selected LSU quarterback Joe Burrow with the first overall pick in the 2020 NFL Draft, landed in Dallas with the expectation that he would be Dak Prescott’s backup.

However, despite the low expectations for playing time for the former Pro Bowler, Dalton feels that his Texas detour could set him up for late-career success and a starting job.

“I feel like I have a lot of good football left,” the quarterback said. “For me, I have to think about the next 10 years. Is it going to be 10 years? I don’t know. But that’s the mindset I have; put myself in the best position for my career.”

It seems that, based on the quarterback’s comments, he expects to look for a starting job in the future despite the expectation that he will back up Prescott this season.

In any case, Dalton will have a chance to “reset” and look to getting back to the form that saw him be one of the league’s most dependable QB starters during the middle of the 2010s.

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Less than a week after being released from the team that he quarterbacked for nearly a decade, Andy Dalton found a new NFL home after inking a one-year deal with the Dallas Cowboys.

The Texas native, who spent nine years as the starting quarterback of the Cincinnati Bengals, will join the Cowboys on a deal that will have him serve as Dak Prescott’s backup.

Dalton was supplanted as Cincinnati’s quarterback by the #1 overall pick in this year’s draft, Joe Burrow. After a 2019 season that saw his production dip for the league-worst Bengals, the team decided to move on from the three-time Pro Bowler.

Dalton, who grew up only four hours south of Arlington in the Houston suburb of Katy, is set to earn $7 million dollars on his one-year deal.

The 32-year-old signal caller is set to use the 2020 season as an opportunity to challenge Prescott for playing time in Dallas and rebuild his market value for the 2021 season and beyond. Despite not finding a starting job for the 2020 season, it isn’t unreasonable to think that a team would gamble on him in the near future.

Dalton is expected to report to Cowboys’ training camp later on this summer.

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After the Bengals selected prized quarterback Joe Burrow with the first overall pick of the 2020 NFL Draft, it appears that former starter Andy Dalton’s tenure with the team has come to a close.

The news that the Bengals would release Dalton, the all-time franchise leader in touchdown passes and the team’s primary starter since 2011, came only a week after the draft was held.

Dalton, who was selected by Cincinnati in the second round of the 2011 Draft out of TCU, made the Pro Bowl three times during his years as the team’s franchise quarterback. He also led the team to five consecutive playoff berths between 2011 and 2015, but was eliminated in the Wild Card Round on each try.

Despite his early success, the Texas native showed signs of decline in recent years that ultimately led to him being benched for three games halfway through the 2019 season.

Dalton finishes his career in Cincinnati with 31,854 passing yards, 204 touchdowns, and 118 interceptions and a legacy of being the franchise’s all-time best quarterback, by some measures.

Now, Dalton, who will turn 33 in October, will have to look to resume his career elsewhere in the league after nearly a decade in Southwestern Ohio.

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Cincinnati Bengals own the No.1 overall pick in this year’s draft, and they will almost certainly use it on a quarterback. This means that their longtime starter Andy Dalton will have to leave Cincinnati in order to get a crack at a starting job in 2020.

Dalton’s exit is reportedly getting near, as the 32-year-old signal-caller and Bengals are working together to find his next landing spot. According to NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport, Bengals intend to trade Dalton, but they will take into account the player’s wishes.

Rapoport adds that Cincinnati doesn’t want to simply get rid of Dalton and that they will do their best to put him into a good situation.

Andy Dalton’s successor at Bengals will probably be LSU’s QB Joe Burrow, who is coming off one of the best individual seasons in recent college football history. Burrow not only won a Heishman Trophy but also led the Tigers to a national championship. He is almost unanimously projected as the first overall pick in 2020.

Dalton landed in Cincinnati in 2011 as a second-round pick and was given the starting job in his rookie season. Since then, he earned three Pro Bowl selections while leading the Bengals to four postseason appearances in which he failed to record a single win.

Dalton’s career stats include 62.0 completion percentage, 31,594 passing yards and 86 passing touchdowns.

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Cincinnati Bengals’ experiment with rookie Ryan Finley as the team’s starting quarterback brought them just 11.0 points per game and extended their losing streak to 11 games. This is why it isn’t surprising that the team’s head coach Zac Taylor decided to revert his decision and re-instate veteran Andy Dalton as a starter.

Taylor announced on Monday that Dalton will start Week 13 game against the New York Jets, hoping they will get their first win of the season.

“It’s time to give him another opportunity,” said Taylor.

“Right now this decision is to help us beat New York,” he added. “We just want a win, and that veteran presence he has will certainly be helpful.”

Andy Dalton was Bengals’ starting quarterback since 2011 but ended up being benched following in Week 9 after an eight-game losing streak. Dalton had 2,252 passing yards alongside nine touchdowns and eight interceptions at the time.

Finley, who was taken in the fourth round of 2019 NFL Draft, stepped in but struggled mightily. The 24-year-old completed only 47.1 percent of his passes, throwing for 474 yards, and two TDs while adding two interceptions and three lost fumbles.

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After starting the season 4-1, Cincinnati Bengals lost five out of their following six games and found themselves in a tough spot in the AFC North playoff chase. Things got even tougher on Monday when the team decided to put their starting quarterback Andy Dalton on the injured reserve list, effectively ending his season.

Dalton suffered a thumb injury in Sunday’s loss to Cleveland Brown and had to exit the game in the third quarter. While the team didn’t give any details about the injury, it looks like the 31-year-old has torn the ligaments in his right thumb and may even require surgery.

Before going down with an injury, Andy Dalton had 100 yards, one touchdown and one interception in the game against the Browns. Dalton has completed 226 out of his 365 passes in 2018, throwing for 2,566 yards and 21 touchdowns, while having 11 interceptions.

Bengals will most likely turn to their backup QB Jeff Driskel, who stepped in for Dalton on Sunday and finished the game with 100 yards and a touchdown. Driskel will be handed his first NFL start against the Denver Broncos on December 2^nd.

Tom Savage, who was claimed off waivers from San Francisco 49ers on Monday, will serve as Driskel’s backup.

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The Carolina Panthers will be without their rookie signal caller Bryce Young for the Week 3 game against the Seattle Seahawks. The first overall pick in the 2023 NFL Draft is dealing with an ankle injury, and the Panthers will face the Seahawks with veteran Andy Dalton under center.

According to the Panthers’ head coach Frank Reich, Young got hurt during the Monday Night Football loss to the New Orleans Saints and will be out for one to two weeks. However, as soon as he’s ready, the Alabama product will get back his starting job.

“Bryce has done well this week,” Reich told reporters. “I’m optimistic he’s on the right path. Whatever the soonest he can get back is, he will get back. And when he gets back, he’ll be our guy.”

Young has struggled so far in his young NFL career, completing 59.2% of his passes and throwing for just 299 yards in two games. He has two passing touchdowns and has thrown two interceptions.

Dalton, who is in his 13th season as a pro, is expected to provide a boost to the Panthers’ offense thanks to his experience and reliability. The 35-year-old is 83−77−2 as a starter, completing 62.5% of his passes and throwing for 38,150 yards, 244 touchdowns, and 144 picks.

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The Washington Football Team routed the Dallas Cowboys on Thanksgiving, winning 41-16 and moving into first place in the NFC East.

The Football Team has now swept their season series with the Cowboys, beating them in both meetings. Their offense was led by a brilliant performance by rookie running back Antonio Gibson, who rushed for 115 yards and three touchdowns.

The Cowboys got a less-than-stellar performance from their big-money running back Ezekiel Elliot, who fumbled the ball yet again and now has a whopping six fumbles on the season. Elliot only ran the ball 10 times for a miserable 32 yards from scrimmage.

The Football Team’s defense also had a great day, sacking Dallas quarterback Andy Dalton three times and getting a pick-six off him as well.

The Cowboys played poorly in every facet of the game and even had a fake punt attempt deep in their territory in the fourth quarter that was poorly executed and didn’t fool anyone.

With Gibson running wild, Washington quarterback Alex Smith didn’t need to do much but did put in a steady performance, completing 19 of 26 passes for 149 yards, one touchdown, and one interception.

Washington needs both the New York Giants and Philadelphia Eagles to lose this week in order to stay in first place in the division.

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Veteran quarterback Garrett Gilbert almost lead Dallas Cowboys to a win against the unbeaten Pittsburgh Steelers on Sunday, but this won’t be enough for him to keep the starting job. According to Dallas’ executive vice president Stephen Jones, Andy Dalton will retake his spot as Cowboys’ starter as soon as he becomes available.

Dalton had an unfortunate past couple of weeks, first suffering a concussion against Washington and then testing positive for COVID-19. This opened up an opportunity for Gilbert, who started against the Steelers and managed the game well while also throwing for 243 yards and a touchdown.

Speaking on 105.3 The Fan on Monday, Jones praised Gilbert’s performance but quickly removed any doubt about the team’s commitment to Dalton.

“When he’s cleared, we fully expect him to step in as our starter,” said Jones.

In order for Dalton to resume his place under center, he’ll need to get a negative COVID-19 test while also being cleared of the concussion.

Andy Dalton signed with Dallas in the offseason to be a backup for Dak Prescott. But following Prescott’s season-ending injury, the three-time Pro Bowler got the opportunity to lead the Cowboys’ offense and show that he can still be a starter in this league.

So far, however, Dalton was far from impressive. He has only 452 passing yards and one touchdown in four games while throwing three interceptions and fumbling the ball twice.

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In their first game without their star quarterback Dak Prescott, the Dallas Cowboys had a miserable outing on Monday night, losing 38-10 to the Arizona Cardinals.

Prescott suffered a gruesome ankle injury in the team’s win against the New York Giants last week and will not be coming back in 2020. Former Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Andy Dalton stepped in for the Cowboys and led a fourth-quarter drive to get the victory over the Giants.

However, he couldn’t get much going against Arizona. With Prescott out, the Cowboys had to rely on their star running back Ezekiel Elliott, who had a miserable game against the Cardinals, fumbling the ball twice.

Cardinals quarterback Kyler Murray got off to a slow start and was fairly inaccurate throwing the ball all game, going just 9-24 for 188 yards. However, he managed to connect for two touchdowns with Arizona wide receiver Christian Kirk, which was enough to secure the win against Dallas’s struggling offense and porous defense.

Dallas is still in first place in the underachieving NFC East with a 2-4 record. They will look to right the ship on Sunday against division rivals the Washington Football Team, who lost to the Giants on Sunday and are currently in last place in the division with a 1-5 record.

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Andy Dalton might have only signed a one-year contract with Dallas in early May, but he’s convinced that his stay in Dallas is set to put him in a position to finish his career strong after being released by the Cincinnati Bengals earlier in the offseason.

Dalton, who was let go by the Bengals after his former team selected LSU quarterback Joe Burrow with the first overall pick in the 2020 NFL Draft, landed in Dallas with the expectation that he would be Dak Prescott’s backup.

However, despite the low expectations for playing time for the former Pro Bowler, Dalton feels that his Texas detour could set him up for late-career success and a starting job.

“I feel like I have a lot of good football left,” the quarterback said. “For me, I have to think about the next 10 years. Is it going to be 10 years? I don’t know. But that’s the mindset I have; put myself in the best position for my career.”

It seems that, based on the quarterback’s comments, he expects to look for a starting job in the future despite the expectation that he will back up Prescott this season.

In any case, Dalton will have a chance to “reset” and look to getting back to the form that saw him be one of the league’s most dependable QB starters during the middle of the 2010s.

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Less than a week after being released from the team that he quarterbacked for nearly a decade, Andy Dalton found a new NFL home after inking a one-year deal with the Dallas Cowboys.

The Texas native, who spent nine years as the starting quarterback of the Cincinnati Bengals, will join the Cowboys on a deal that will have him serve as Dak Prescott’s backup.

Dalton was supplanted as Cincinnati’s quarterback by the #1 overall pick in this year’s draft, Joe Burrow. After a 2019 season that saw his production dip for the league-worst Bengals, the team decided to move on from the three-time Pro Bowler.

Dalton, who grew up only four hours south of Arlington in the Houston suburb of Katy, is set to earn $7 million dollars on his one-year deal.

The 32-year-old signal caller is set to use the 2020 season as an opportunity to challenge Prescott for playing time in Dallas and rebuild his market value for the 2021 season and beyond. Despite not finding a starting job for the 2020 season, it isn’t unreasonable to think that a team would gamble on him in the near future.

Dalton is expected to report to Cowboys’ training camp later on this summer.

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After the Bengals selected prized quarterback Joe Burrow with the first overall pick of the 2020 NFL Draft, it appears that former starter Andy Dalton’s tenure with the team has come to a close.

The news that the Bengals would release Dalton, the all-time franchise leader in touchdown passes and the team’s primary starter since 2011, came only a week after the draft was held.

Dalton, who was selected by Cincinnati in the second round of the 2011 Draft out of TCU, made the Pro Bowl three times during his years as the team’s franchise quarterback. He also led the team to five consecutive playoff berths between 2011 and 2015, but was eliminated in the Wild Card Round on each try.

Despite his early success, the Texas native showed signs of decline in recent years that ultimately led to him being benched for three games halfway through the 2019 season.

Dalton finishes his career in Cincinnati with 31,854 passing yards, 204 touchdowns, and 118 interceptions and a legacy of being the franchise’s all-time best quarterback, by some measures.

Now, Dalton, who will turn 33 in October, will have to look to resume his career elsewhere in the league after nearly a decade in Southwestern Ohio.

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Cincinnati Bengals own the No.1 overall pick in this year’s draft, and they will almost certainly use it on a quarterback. This means that their longtime starter Andy Dalton will have to leave Cincinnati in order to get a crack at a starting job in 2020.

Dalton’s exit is reportedly getting near, as the 32-year-old signal-caller and Bengals are working together to find his next landing spot. According to NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport, Bengals intend to trade Dalton, but they will take into account the player’s wishes.

Rapoport adds that Cincinnati doesn’t want to simply get rid of Dalton and that they will do their best to put him into a good situation.

Andy Dalton’s successor at Bengals will probably be LSU’s QB Joe Burrow, who is coming off one of the best individual seasons in recent college football history. Burrow not only won a Heishman Trophy but also led the Tigers to a national championship. He is almost unanimously projected as the first overall pick in 2020.

Dalton landed in Cincinnati in 2011 as a second-round pick and was given the starting job in his rookie season. Since then, he earned three Pro Bowl selections while leading the Bengals to four postseason appearances in which he failed to record a single win.

Dalton’s career stats include 62.0 completion percentage, 31,594 passing yards and 86 passing touchdowns.

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Cincinnati Bengals’ experiment with rookie Ryan Finley as the team’s starting quarterback brought them just 11.0 points per game and extended their losing streak to 11 games. This is why it isn’t surprising that the team’s head coach Zac Taylor decided to revert his decision and re-instate veteran Andy Dalton as a starter.

Taylor announced on Monday that Dalton will start Week 13 game against the New York Jets, hoping they will get their first win of the season.

“It’s time to give him another opportunity,” said Taylor.

“Right now this decision is to help us beat New York,” he added. “We just want a win, and that veteran presence he has will certainly be helpful.”

Andy Dalton was Bengals’ starting quarterback since 2011 but ended up being benched following in Week 9 after an eight-game losing streak. Dalton had 2,252 passing yards alongside nine touchdowns and eight interceptions at the time.

Finley, who was taken in the fourth round of 2019 NFL Draft, stepped in but struggled mightily. The 24-year-old completed only 47.1 percent of his passes, throwing for 474 yards, and two TDs while adding two interceptions and three lost fumbles.

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After starting the season 4-1, Cincinnati Bengals lost five out of their following six games and found themselves in a tough spot in the AFC North playoff chase. Things got even tougher on Monday when the team decided to put their starting quarterback Andy Dalton on the injured reserve list, effectively ending his season.

Dalton suffered a thumb injury in Sunday’s loss to Cleveland Brown and had to exit the game in the third quarter. While the team didn’t give any details about the injury, it looks like the 31-year-old has torn the ligaments in his right thumb and may even require surgery.

Before going down with an injury, Andy Dalton had 100 yards, one touchdown and one interception in the game against the Browns. Dalton has completed 226 out of his 365 passes in 2018, throwing for 2,566 yards and 21 touchdowns, while having 11 interceptions.

Bengals will most likely turn to their backup QB Jeff Driskel, who stepped in for Dalton on Sunday and finished the game with 100 yards and a touchdown. Driskel will be handed his first NFL start against the Denver Broncos on December 2^nd.

Tom Savage, who was claimed off waivers from San Francisco 49ers on Monday, will serve as Driskel’s backup.

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