Duke Tobin on why the Bengals didn't trade veteran players

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(01-23-2020, 08:10 PM)Mike M (the other one) Wrote: Ok,
This guy can't win with anyone, if he traded a player or two, people would be complaining we gave them away.

To me, this team has some talented players at certain positions, but the holes are really killing them (MLB). If they can get the holes plugged adequately, then we can be competitive easily.

Same with OL, get the holes plugged adequately, and we're back in business.

Obviously AD can be traded, he is not going to be a part of our future, since we will draft JB. But others should stick around. So this team isn't so far away that we need a complete overhaul, we just need to dip into FA's this year and find a few good fillers instead of waiting for them to fall to us in the draft.

Now name me a team in the NFL that trades away it's BEST players (more than one, teams can handle losing one player) and is better the next year?

It's more about Duke and MB responding to questions about trades as if the concept is crazy.   It's even more worthy of an eye roll consider how often they talk about building through the draft. 

But it doesn't matter because any picks we get are all going to be used on Drew Samples and Ryan Finleys.  I wish Duke would say that.  You want us to have more picks?  We will just blow em.  That I'd accept.