10-30-2019, 02:32 PM
(10-30-2019, 01:55 PM)Au165 Wrote: Not sure what that has to do with anything other than just being mad that you are a fan here. As I keep explaining, NO ONE WAS TRADING, especially not at peak price. If we dumped Dalton for a 5th to the Bears yesterday are you happy now? People here had inflated views of what people were willing to pay for players but that wasn't based in reality. If we moved Dunlap for a 4th yesterday, eating his dead cap, are people looking around today smiling thinking we are all good now? No.
The off season is where you'll get better value because teams who had bad seasons will be buying not just a limited number of contenders. That is why all these teams who were rumored to be selling didn't sell, because the price wasn't right. Selling for the sake of selling doesn't make us better.
I am not mad at the lack of trading. What I do find to be underhanded is that they waited for so long to announce to Dalton that he was benched.
Teams will then come out with offers... maybe the 5th round pick, like you suggest. The Bengals could then renegotiate and try to work up to a deal they like or just flat out say No. The agent could then ask the Bengals what they are wanting and then see if any team would be willing to meet the demand.
Benching Dalton when they did was BS. We won't "find out" anything about Finley than we did with Dalton. Only that the OLine still sucks. The running game is non-existent. The defense will still give up the big play. If we really want to see Finley in action, then bench Green as well. Let us see what Finley does without Green. Instead we get this fool's gold approach where we put Green out there with Finley.
