Huge week for this Franchise

[Circleville Guy]

(10-27-2019, 07:10 PM)Crazyjdawg Wrote: My DREAM Bye Week:
1. Andy is benched for Finley.
2. Green is traded. I would prefer a first rounder, but if they can only get a second rounder, fine. Outside of the Franchise tag, Green likely isn't a Bengal in 2020 and it'd probably be a waste of money if he is, because we won't be competitive for at least 2 seasons, at which point he will be 33.
3. Atkins is traded. Again, prefer a first rounder, but a second rounder would do. Like Green, he'll be in the last few years of his career by the time we're relevant. Try and get some capital for the future with him.
4. Kirkpatrick is traded. I don't care the compensation. Just get something for him. He's making nearly 10 million dollars per year in 2020 and 2021. We won't be all that competitive. No reason to keep him around.
5. Dunlap is traded. I think he would probably only fetch a 3rd or 4th rounder, but it's something, as he is in the same camp as Green and Atkins.

What I expect the Bye week to be:
1. Zac talks about how good our team looked in the first half and how we're closer than we seem.
2. They stubbornly refuse to trade anyone, unwilling to admit that a rebuild is upon them, whether they like it or not.

This highlights what some fans that don’t want the good players traded don’t seem to admit. These players are aging, on decline and the Bengals aren’t a couple players away from being a good team. Keeping them means that you push them leaving down the road a year or two. You still don’t have a winning team, the player is now in total decline and you didn’t get crap for them. The problem of them declining doesn’t go away, you either cash in now for assets or you keep them while still losing and get nothing. Mike Brown has an approach to this situation. His approach is to do nothing and get nothing in return. I disagree with Mike’s philosophy.