10-28-2015, 12:47 PM
(10-28-2015, 12:21 PM)kevin Wrote: NO....Trades in the NFL don't happen like in baseball.....and unlike baseball, football is more of a team game and why the Pro Bowl stinks because you can't put a team together in one week. You can throw baseball players together and have an All-Star Game but not in football. ....This team has been going at it since the Spring and Summer camps. We wouldn't be much of a team if somebody could just walk in and throw his jock strap on the field and that makes him a starter in November. November is a little late in the season. The Bengals are 6-0 and this is our team. ....Who would we be trading ? ...We are 6-0, so why would we be trading anybody, and you have to trade top talent to get top talent. ....No, this ain't baseball, and why break up a team that is 6-0. ....I'm not for trading a top WR or a top D Lineman to get a LB, and those would be our only deep bench areas, but we need those areas bench deep because that is a big reason for the 6-0.
Player for player trades, that'd be nuts. The only times I recall that happening is when one of the players is holding out. A draft pick to a team looking to dump salary, that is becoming more common. Carolina grabbing Allen for a pick the most recent example.
As you say, this isn't "Madden". Players simply aren't plug 'n play. What the Bengals would be trading to San Fran (or anyone) is as much their cap ability to take on a high priced talent as the compensatory pick. Free up a salary like Brooks', that may allow for extending someone else on this year's cap.. right?
