Dalton gets the drop on spring
5/16/12, 6:50 p.m. Andy Dalton can be found these days in the Bengals locker room jokingly flexing but seriously challenging. "C'mon. What do you think?" he might ask standing on the scale. If you guess his draft day weight of 217 pounds, you'd be wrong. "Nope," he might say triumphantly. "Try 224.6." While he felt he needed to get stronger Dalton also felt the need to put more meat on his deep passes as one of his offseason priorities. With Dalton preparing for his first voluntary camp as a pro next week in Tuesday's first practice, the two issues are related only in the sense people can tell he went after it. Which may be his biggest leadership contribution in this young season: "We're going to start faster this year. There were games where I stunk in the first half. I'm not going to have those games." Read More
