05-18-2022, 05:49 PM
(05-18-2022, 05:09 PM)WeezyBengal Wrote: What exactly does trading him solve? No one is going to trade for him because that team will be stuck in the same mess the Bengals are currently in.
Sure the team that trades for him could offer him a bigger contract, but it's not guaranteed he'll accept and that just seems sticky.
No one is trading anything of substance for Bates.
Anything > Nothing
Many teams will overpay, and many don’t have the same cap philosophy or looming contracts that the Bengals have.