Which was the best trade?

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(04-13-2016, 09:14 PM)Shake n Blake Wrote: Exactly why I voted for Nelson/Jones over the Palmer trade.

Palmer was a good player and we got Gio (good) and DreKirk (mediocre) in return.

We stole Nelson though. We pretty much got the GOAT Bengals Safety for free. 

Palmer was a good player and he currently is a good player, but when we traded him he wasn't even showing up to play football.  Carson Palmer put up 0's across the board for the Bengals in 2011 and it sure didn't seem like anything was going to get him here. Plus, we drafted his replacement.  It would be like trading Keith Wenning for a 1st and a 2nd...the guy had 0 chance of doing ANYTHING for the Bengals ever again.

(04-13-2016, 07:23 PM)NATI BENGALS Wrote: Yea a first and second for a guy refusing to play has to be it. If Jason Campbell never got injured that year Palmer would probably be out of the league for awhile now.

I think eventually Mike would have accepted some sort of trade for Palmer.  It's hard to believe no team other than the Raiders wanted him, they were just the only team that offered enough that Mike Brown decided bettering the Bengals was worth giving in on an argument.  Even after 2011 or 2012 (?) Palmer would have been eligible to sign with another team (I think...) and he could have been picked up by many teams on a "vet backup maybe starter" sort of deal.