Is Dalton a Patriot?

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(04-25-2020, 11:27 AM)TheSweetness Wrote: Why would he not just wait to get cut and then sign with a team that needs a starting QB?

There’s not a lot of teams left that need starting QB’s and there is some actual competition on the FA market as well. I’d take Dalton over those guys but that doesn’t mean NFL teams will agree. It’s also not a guarantee that he’ll get cut. I know everyone says look at the cap hit, but don’t forget, this is Mike Brown and the Bengals. They’ve been known to be stubborn from time to time. They will do everything possible before cutting him for nothing. They’ve already strengthened their grip on him in that relationship just by watching all of these other jobs fill up.

His best choice at this point is to take a pay cut (bigger the better for him) and hope we either trade him now to a team that likes him and his new lower cap hit (which we could make a signing bonus and basically trade him away with little to no cap hit for the new team) over the other QB’s available and their likely higher hits, or keep him to start the first few game or teach burrow and trade him at the deadline