Andrew Luck retires... Chance for the Bengals to trade a promising QB?

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(08-30-2019, 12:13 PM)NKURyan Wrote: Palmer was an MVP candidate in 2005. I think Mahomes could've been good here... in the right situation. I don't think anyone (including Dalton) was going to find much success in the awful offense of Zampese and Lazor. Players need to be set up to succeed, especially young ones, and it just seemed like a pretty bad situation. If the Bengals are going to draft a young QB - and it is coming - now is the time to do it. You've just hired a young head coach who should be here awhile (not a guarantee with Marvin at that point), he's an offensive mind (not the case then), and what limited glances we've seen suggests ZT's offensive approach could be interesting. As much as I'll stick by my guns that the Bengals were right NOT to draft a QB these last few years (bigger fish to fry... or at least attempt to fry), it's coming, and with this staff I think I'll feel pretty good about it when it does.

I know what you mean, and like I said this is just off-season banter.  If my past history is any indicator, I'm likely going to side with Dalton over "THE BENGALS" in the event that he becomes the popular target for "why we could never get it done."  I'm just a little ho-hum on the notion that we can't use a high pick on a starting QB until our QB room is the most glaring weakness we have.  At what point will that happen?  Dalton could retire today and we're still better at QB than we are at LB or o-line, so what's it going to take?

What bums me out is this notion that the Chiefs can draft Mahommes when they have Alex Smith and get an mvp season out of Mahommes right off the bat while trading Smith off for some sweet draft capital and that is something that we could NEVER EVER EVER do.  It just gets depressing at times when you think of the "shoulda been" victories we have.  We shoulda won it all in 2005 and 2015 and we shoulda had an MVP in Dalton while we unloaded AJ McCarron for a high pick on a dumbass Browns team and sunk them at the same time.  But we didn't.

And I'll admit I wasn't sold on Mahommes over Ross until Mike Brown took Ross and Andy Reid took Mahommes.  That's a rough bit of evidence to overlook there, but I guess time will tell and even if Mahommes is 10,000 times the player Ross is I apparently couldn't see the future so I never saw it coming.