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

[Mike M (the other one)]

(01-23-2020, 07:45 PM)Nately120 Wrote: Duke said you don't get better trading your best players.  You have to wonder who could really be untouchable on a team that went 2-14 and hasn't had a winning season since 2015, though.  

Ok,
This guy can't win with anyone, if he traded a player or two, people would be complaining we gave them away.

To me, this team has some talented players at certain positions, but the holes are really killing them (MLB). If they can get the holes plugged adequately, then we can be competitive easily.

Same with OL, get the holes plugged adequately, and we're back in business.

Obviously AD can be traded, he is not going to be a part of our future, since we will draft JB. But others should stick around. So this team isn't so far away that we need a complete overhaul, we just need to dip into FA's this year and find a few good fillers instead of waiting for them to fall to us in the draft.

Now name me a team in the NFL that trades away it's BEST players (more than one, teams can handle losing one player) and is better the next year?