Sounds like the Bengals aren't interested in trading players for picks

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(10-08-2019, 04:35 PM)fredtoast Wrote: Or it could just mean that they did not get good enough offers.

Too many fans claim we should trade every one with out any though to the fact that every player we trade away creates another hole.

If we trade Geno for a second round pick what are the chances we get a player as good as Geno with that pick?  And that just gets us to "breaking even".

It is not that simple to rebuild an entire roster.

You don't trade Geno to get another player "as good", necessarily. You're talking about a guy coming out of college. If you get someone that becomes a solid starter (say an OG), it's a win/win. You got the capital to get the player and fix a spot on the line and you create a bit of cap space to go after a better FA. 

Of course, this is all spitting in the wind because that's not the Bengals MO. 

If i was sitting in the GM seat, i'd cut Hart and Andre, trade Geno and AJ, offer Dre and take whatever someone would give and then i would throw big money at Jack Conklin and Corey Littleton in FA, then i'd focus on OG, WR and LB in the draft. 

So next year's team would have Jonah back as well as having added Conklin. Hopkins, Price, and MJ are young, plus a (hopefully) good OG from the draft. Work on signing Mixon long term. You have a decent amount of WRs already on the team, lead by Boyd and on defense, they already have a lot of Dline, plus Littleton and Pratt heading the LBs with Brown and Vigil behind them and you have WJ3, Dennard and Phillips as your top 3 CBs.