Duke Tobin on why the Bengals didn't trade veteran players

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I think one underlying problem is that Mike Brown generally views trading players akin to flesh trading and as a skin game. He's stated as much in the past and I don't think that philosophy has changed much over the years. He seems to take that view regardless of injuries and generally, though not exclusively only does it when the player doesn't want to play for him anymore.
That's a real problem in the league and rebuilding a team. The rest of the league knows where he's at with it so they're reluctant to even bother asking knowing the answers ahead of time.