Hypothetical dream scenario

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(12-08-2023, 06:34 PM)NotBigzo Wrote: Browning starts showing signs of possibly being one of the better backups in the league and the first thoughts to some people's minds are what we could get if we traded him.

Burrow has played two full seasons. Two. If Browning is a capable backup, at minimum; he needs to stay.

That would be awesome if he would stay and play back up QB for Bengals. Yet if he does prove worthy of being a starting QB then the Bengals would only get him for one season as back up and then he becomes an unrestricted FA and a team in need of a starter would come swoop him away leaving the Bengals with nothing in return except for 1 season as a back-up. 

He will jump at this opportunity because much like assistant coaches never turn down HC gigs, nor do back up QB's turn down running their own team as at the starter. Plus that's where the real fame and fortune lies. 

I like Jake and was livid last season when they did not give him the back-up QB spot and placed him on the practice squad when he clearly won the preseason battle in my mind. So to me it would also be unfair to him if he achieves this status to force him to play for the league minimum as a back up when some team will pay him 10 to 20 times amount and hand him the reins to their team. . 

So top me it would be the best for both parties to make a trade in off season "if" he can sustain that sort of play he displayed against the Jags.

Yet that is all just fun to talk about yet Jake lit that spark of conversation with his big game. But it will take 3 or 4 of these games before he will command anything worth trading for anyway so it may just be a pipe dream in the end. Still I'm ok with Jake as the Bengals back-up QB for as long as he wants it.