08-26-2017, 12:54 PM
(08-26-2017, 11:26 AM)corpjet Wrote: I like the idea for sure, as I have stated for a while, we will make one trade before the regular season starts and we have a surplus at WR
This ain't baseball. Trades in the NFL don't happen very easy, and Trumpy and Collinsworth on radio use to say trying to guess NFL trades is a waste of time. ....ALSO teams are about ready to cut players as after every preseason. THIS is where teams for the most part add players this time of the year.....People are making a good point that Patriots are in good shape at WR. Probably more than Bengals....Bengals have 3 guys Dalton has the timing passes reps with, Green, Eifert and LaFell. Towards end of season Dalton and Boyd developed a little bit but it needs work. AS for Core, Ross, Malone, Erickson, Dalton has few timing pattern reps with these guys. So we have 3 pass catchers Dalton has experience with and all the rest are developmental players. ...This isn't high school or college where somebody gets open and you throw the ball. The NFL defenses are too fast. In the NFL if a WR got open and then the QB threw the ball, by the time the ball gets there the D is all over him. So just about everything in the NFL is timing patterns, timing patterns and more timing patterns. We have 3 pass catchers Dalton has timing with and the others are not ready for the Baltimore home opener. Boyd has enough reps to be #3 WR. We are not as loaded at WR as people think and people forget we also lost Jones and Sanu. These new guys hopefully replace Jones and Sanu but the timing with Dalton is not there yet. So Patriots are not that in need of WR and we are not that loaded at WR. This second string O Lineman is no better than what we already have and teams are days away from player cuts anyway. I do not see a trade before the Baltimore season opener. Maybe a cut free agent pick-up, but not a trade. The focus is on beating Baltimore and that is Dalton to Green, Lafell, Eifert and Boyd as #3 WR and in 3rd and long probably take out RB and put in Ross or Core or Malone.
Now in 2015 when Bengals started 8-0 before Dalton got injured we were deep in timing pattern receivers. Losing Jones and Sanu hurt greatly in 2016. Boyd, Ross, Core, Malone may get the timing down with Dalton, but for the Baltimore opener we have only 3 receivers Dalton has a lot of reps with. Green, Eifert, LaFell. ...None of those 3 should be getting traded anywhere before the Baltimore game. Dalton needs them to beat Baltimore. Dalton has enough reps with Boyd to be #3 WR and has been kind of a slot WR on short yards after catch slant patterns like TJ use to be. On 3rd and long we could use a Henry type to go fast down field on long bomb routes, and the speedy Ross should fill the need. I fail to see then how Malone, Core and Erickson are Superstar Deep in pass catchers...plus you don't go through a season without injuries, so they fill a need.
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