10-16-2020, 08:39 AM
(10-15-2020, 11:26 AM)PhilHos Wrote: I think some of you are looking at this wrong. I'm not looking at any Bengals players and saying they need to be traded away. That said, the only "untouchables" I'd keep are Burrow, obviously and one of Gio/Mixon. Everyone else is available for the right price. The right price is either upgrades at the OL or high draft picks (depending on the player).
We need to look at who we can get, figure out what the price is and see if we have it AND we're willing to pay it.
No, I think you are looking at this wrong.
The Bengals have a number of players who won't be in their plans for next year - be it that they'll be cap casualties, free agents that aren't priority to re-sign or players in need of a fresh start. We need to extract whatever value we can for them now because we won't get anything for them in the off-season if we cut them or they walk (assuming we'll be active in free agency we won't get any compensatory picks, but the team we trade them to might be able to). It makes no sense to hang onto them and we need to increase our draft capital considering all our holes.
We're not going to get high draft picks or an upgrade at the OL. Outside of Burrow, Bates, Lawson, Jackson and Jonah we simply don't have the value to offer other teams for a high draft pick and who wants to be trading a serviceable O-lineman mid-season? The best we can do is collect as many 5th, 6th and 7th round picks (and future picks) as we can. Maybe if we can collect enough we can then use them to trade up to get that extra high draft pick.
And if someone wants to trade good O-linemen for Mixon and Gio I'm snapping their hand off. There's no way they should be on the untouchable list. Good O-line is way more important than a good RB. A good O-line can carry a poor RB whereas we know only too well that you can have a top 5(?) RB and still not have a functioning running game without an O-line who can open up running lanes.
