10-30-2019, 11:43 PM
(10-30-2019, 11:22 PM)leonardfan40 Wrote: If he’s not going to be a starter next year he could still test the trade market or be cut this offseason. His trade value will be higher in the offseason when teams have more cap flexibility and know what is available. It’s not brilliant but it’s definitely not the horrible, insulting, incompetent move everyone seems to be making it out to be. Truth is there aren’t many teams that need him for the 2nd half of the year. Maybe if a (well timed) injury happened to another starting QB it would have made for a perfect storm to trade him, but that didn’t happen.
People acting like the Bengals ended his chance of ever playing the game again. All they did by not trading him is cost him 8 games and that’s IF Finley doesn’t sh*t the bed and get put back on the bench.
There is a whole lot of overreacting going on with this move. At the end of the day, just about everyone wanted him benched and got it. People need to be happy they got what they wanted (one of the rare times the team does what the fans wanted) and see how the other stuff plays out over the next 6-12 months.
Yet I wouldn't blame Dalton one bit if he were to say... "Nah, I'm good."
Taylor already admitted to him that they want to see what Finley can do before going into the draft. Which means the organization is either going to roll with Finley or draft a QB in the 1st.
Why should Dalton go out and finish the season? If Finley plays like crap that is ZT's issue. Of course Finley could play like crap, the OLine will still be terrible and the run game will be non-existent. WRs will still drop passes, assuming that Green doesn't play.
If Finley plays poorly, Dalton should say "Maybe see what Dolegala can do? I mean you want to make 100% sure before the draft, right? I wouldn't want to prevent you from finding out what you have for the future at QB."
Of course I am pettier than Dalton is. Dalton would probably just go back out there.
