Trade Idea involving Jets

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(04-09-2019, 09:10 PM)Bryan Wrote: Weakening our offense to maybe improve the defense is like using a hammer on your foot because it might help your shoulder pain. If we can get him without trading AJ, cool. If not, no way.

You are seemingly not seeing the big picture here....nor are a lot of the posters based on the responses.  

The Bengals would lose AJ Green, and the #11 pick in the draft.  They would also effectively knock somewhere in the range of $20 million per year off their cap number by not re-signing him.

They gain a former first-round LB that has NFL Experience and has improved every year he has played.  Let's not forget that until last year he played with one of the worst offenses always giving the ball back to the opponent.  Lee was rated 72.4  by Pro Football Focus with "Good" rankings in both run and pass defense.  The #24 overall LB.  And this player is a known, not a crapshoot like the draft.  

They also gain the #3 overall pick in the draft, which would be spent on Dwayne Haskins, who would have two years to learn behind Dalton and possibly squeeze him out of the job, making Dalton a potential trade piece next season.  The Bengals would have a rookie QB under contract for five years and avoid paying what will surely be close to $30 million per year for Dalton.  

I agreed with an earlier post that the Bengals would need more and suggested a conditional 2020 pick that is based on AJ's performance/health in 2019 that would be as high as a 2nd, but only as low as a 4th.  

Say it happened:  The Bengals would likely surely target an OT in the second round and then potentially go after a WR in the third.  They would have more cap space than likely any team in the NFL heading in to the 2020 season and could go after a FA WR, OT, or other position that screams for an upgrade under Taylor's new units.

I love Dalton and Green as much as anyone, if not more especially when it comes to Dalton.  However, I see a lot of the Votto and Bruce Reds of a few years ago.  Those two contracts so handcuffed the team that unless they got lucky with some young drafted talent, their roster had some huge holes in it.  Even with the cap number climbing, I fear that signing Green and Dalton will leave us stuck in the mud, rarely above a .500 team.  I hope I am wrong, because I really doubt that the Bengals would trade Green.  They kept a turd like Maualuga because the fans seemed to like him.