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(10-29-2021, 03:05 PM)kevin Wrote: Again, Football is not like Baseball or Basketball.  You can have Baseball or Basketball All-Star Games.  If you can hit or pitch, it doesn't matter what team you are on.  If you can shoot or rebound, it doesn't matter what team you are on.  However Football All-Star games always stink because they do not have the time to learn a playbook.  Football is practicing and practicing the Team Playbook, over and over.  

So you can have a trade deadline in Baseball or Basketball and players can switch teams pretty easy.  Not so in Football.  In Football you just don't walk in halfway through a season and say, " Here I Am ".   All these Bengals who have been practicing The Bengals Playbook since Training Camps are miles ahead of whoever they would bring in.  This is true of College, High School, Junior High School and Pee Wee Football.  No Coach has any use for somebody who shows up halfway through the season as a newcomer.  

So Football and it's complex playbooks and Team Work make Football completely different than Baseball or Basketball.  The Bengals would be silly to trade Players or Draft Picks, because THIS IS THEIR TEAM.  These players who have practiced the playbook since Training Camp, THIS IS THEIR TEAM.  It is not baseball or basketball.  Football is all about practicing The Playbook and Team Work, and you don't just walk onto a team halfway through the season. 

As for those Draft Picks, don't The Bengals kind of want some Draft Picks of their own in April.  I would think they do. 

Paul Brown said just because a player looks good on some team, does not mean he would fit into my team. Paul Brown said there is an esprit de corps, and he would rather have his teams players that have been practicing as one unit.  I also recall one of the toughest kids in high school showing up for practice halfway through the season. The coach asked him some playbook questions and he didn't have a clue. The coach asked him then what the heck makes him think he can join the team halfway through the season, and told him to leave his field and come back next year for training camp like all the others. Then the coach made a speech, " You have been here since training camp. You are MY TEAM".  Per Paul Brown, THAT is Football.  There are no mid season walk on players, THE TEAM is the players from Training Camp on.

We traded for BJ Hill after TC ended and he had 2 sacks in week 1 against the Vikings.

We signed guys off the street like Cedric Benson and Dhani Jones who came in and played well immediately.

There are some areas on this team with depth concerns.  There's no reason to not pursue all avenues to improve.