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

[BengalChris]

(01-23-2020, 01:18 PM)WeezyBengal Wrote: Pretty bad logic IMO. Why doesn't he ask the 49ers how their turnaround went?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nfl/duke-tobin-explains-why-bengals-didnt-host-fire-sale-at-trade-deadline/ar-BBZfRQy?ocid=spartandhp

“We are not trying to get better by losing our best players. In our opinion, that’s not the path forward. Lose your best players, how do you get better by doing that? We have guys who clearly some teams were interested in. Well guess what? We are interested in having them, too. They are good players. We weren’t good enough as a football team. Now if we’re going to lose players, how does that improve us? I don’t think any of those (veterans) are done. We think all those guys have life in their NFL career and are going to be a part of our turnaround as we go.”

When you're bad at drafting then the above all makes sense. But when you can trade a guy with a few years left for a brand new guy who has lots of years left then it comes down to picking the right brand new guys in the draft. When you keep striking out in the draft, then, well, I guess it's better to keep the guys who have a few years left in the tank.