What do you want to do with AJ Green?

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(03-22-2020, 07:12 PM)BengalChris Wrote: AJ is a really hard one for me. For Dalton I'd take a 4th or 5th round pick if I could get it. For AJ it's different. When he's healthy he's one of the best WRs in the game and he makes a huge difference in the team's chances of winning games when he's on the field.

I'd take the 20-25 range 1st pick except nobody is going to offer that. If they did, I'd take it in a heart beat, then trade up in the 1st round and to take CeeDee Lamb as AJ's replacement.

The one year franchise tag contract of $18M is too pricey, but given that it's either that or nothing I'll stomach the $18M and hope that AJ does well this season.

 

This is really one impact of the rookie wage scale that isn't often recognized as to how it could actually HURT veterans.  If it was the old system, you would be paying a guy like Lamb what you would be paying for a guy like Green...and he would be an unknown.  Now, with the rookie wage scale, it is a tremendous savings to have a high draft pick compared to a high-dollar veteran.  It isn't just at QB.  

James Rapien, when on Mo Egger's show, used to call Andy Dalton: "Blandy Dalton".  I didn't much care for the name, but there is some truth to it.  Aside from some late-game heroics against the Ratbirds a few years back, Dalton, while a very solid QB, doesn't set fire to ticket sales like Brady.  He would signal a clear stop-gap.  My hope was a team like the Pats trades for him and he has a career year (but still loses in the playoffs to the Bengals  ).  I just think the excitement meter to sell to fans is pretty blah for him.  AJ, maybe a bit of the same since he has been injured so much.  I guess the bet on AJ to have a good year and see what this offense can become is the smart play so long as they don't wait until next year to draft his long-term replacement.