Where does your confidence stand?

That's because we have a 4x-Pro Bowl QB who still has maybe 2-3 very good years left in him, as opposed to a now-journeyman QB who was a productive, effective Tier B level NFL starter in his prime in Cincinnati who could take his teams to post-season but lose in the first round every year, actually four consecutive years in a row (2011-14), I don't include 2015 because Dalton was injured the last month of the season and had a would-be wannabe starter swush in and try to take his job (and credit) for Bengals making the playoffs that year. Everyone was hyping the "ex-Bama boy" for nearly a month until he and his team fell flat on their collective faces and choked away a late 4th quarter lead at the worst, possible time, exacerbated by a few Bengals defensive hotheads and a nut job MLB in Vontaze Burfict.
We crap on Dalton but I will always believe that with Dalton, we could have won 10 games or more with better coaching. We spent so much time blaming the players that we ignored how bad play calling was. We lost because our offense stunk and our offense stunk the entire season, regardless of who was under center. We are seeing the same thing now.