Patriots Not Considering Dalton

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(03-23-2020, 12:54 PM)Wes Mantooth Wrote: Andy Dalton's value was at it's highest at the trade deadline.

It's simple supply and demand. Coupled with the urgency of in-season contenders, this was your best time to move him.  A team desperately trying to get in the playoffs has little to no options at the deadline to snag a competent QB.

Now? You've got 4 guys projected to go in the first round, and a few others right behind them in the 2nd-3rd.  You've got a free agency class and trade bait of 7 legitimate starters.

What was a market on 1 or 2 guys in-season who could step in and potentially start is now a market of 12-15 guys who you could make a run at to potentionally start in 2020.

They chose to wait. For whatever reason, they felt keeping Dalton on a 0-10 team after he had already been demoted was the correct play.  They chose wrong.

The good news?  At we didn't make any teams better at the deadline. Yeah, a 2nd or 3rd would be nice right now. But we stuck to our principles. So that's to be commended.  

People keep talking about how he should have been traded last year but nobody ever says who they could have traded  him to.  Who were these teams who wanted him last year?  I don't recall any teams in the playoff hunt making any trades for a QB last year or even any talk about a team that wanted /needed him.  The way I understand it, trades require two teams.

People also say AJ should have been traded last year at the deadline. When has anybody ever made a deadline trade for a guy who is injured with no idea when he'll even return?