Possible Dalton Trade Being Reported

[SunsetBengal]

(04-17-2020, 08:19 PM)Geno_Can_Dunk Wrote: The last part of that I disagree with (assuming you mean it doesn't help the Bengals much). I just think it's a matter of how much money and what draft pick. Let's say we eat 4 million (Miami ate 5m of Tannehill's salary just to get  4th round pick). What veteran(s) can we get at this point for that? A veteran in decline, or a couple other pieces that nobody has tried very hard to sign at this point? But turn that into an early day 3 pick and we get a player on a rookie salary who we control for the next 4 years, with an opportunity to develop within our system. 

I'm not advocating it one way or another, just saying it's a complex situation based on many unknown variables. And lots of stars would have to line up the right way for a trade to happen. 

I guess that I just wasn't thinking of it in the same terms that you were.  When I was reading about how close Jax is to the cap line, I just assumed that they wanted to get the Bengals to eat about half of Andy's salary.  In my mind, that wouldn't be a good deal.  However, upon reading about Joe Mixon threatening a holdout in lieu of an extension, I also see that there are plenty of good RBs out there without contracts.  So, exrapolating one hypothetical situation intertwined with another, I was thinking that the Bengals could use all of the money from not paying Andy's salary this season.