Trade No. 1 if.....

[Okeana]

(01-21-2020, 02:26 PM)bengals67 Wrote: If Miami offers their first four picks ( or something equivalent from another team) and Mike Brown is not willing to sign quality free agents to build the o line and LB group, for the sake of Burrow and the franchise the first pick should be traded.

But instead they should turn down all trades for Burrow provided the family acts like any of the other 31 NFL teams would act with the cap space available and the opportunity to draft the highest rated college QB since Luck.

This includes signing at least two high quality free agents.

I am all for keeping Burrow and signing two great free agents.

 But they will probably instead reject the King's ransom they could get this year while also doing nothing in  free agency,

Hopspin will argue that the Bengals made great moves in free agency by franchising AJ and signing no one else.

We have seen this too many times to expect anything else.

Mike Brown will be forced to spend money this offseason and he will have tons of space.  I think Burrow can be a long-lasting star player for this team, but if they do trade they need to get way beyond the normal trade value for the #1 pick.  I don't see the dolphin's being in play for the pick tho because they traded so much to get the extra picks then went away from the tank for the year.