Trading Stars to Rebuild: A case study

[*bfine32*]

(Yesterday, 03:09 PM)Essex Johnson Wrote: Worked out for KC trading Hill.

That's because KC is the best in the NFL at draft and development. 

Trade good players for picks is not a model this team should follow. Nor is "trade back" to get more picks. 

[Isaac Curtis: The Real #85]

(11-20-2024, 11:52 PM)bfine32 Wrote: And if we trade Hendrickson, we still the awesome pass rusher..............

We shouldn't be trading for draft picks, we should nbe trading picks for players

But we have cap issues there. 

I am for clearing the decks on the mediocre overpaid guys (Rankins, Stone, McPherson, Cappa), plus maybe Drew Sample and Moss. 

Pay the guys that can play. Karras and Hubbard are borderline. 

The Lions had a terrible D last year and remade it despite losing Hutchison. All they needed was better DBs, good LB draft, and DJ Reader.

[*Nately120*]

(11-20-2024, 03:38 PM)CKwi88 Wrote: Rams got: Superbowl win
Lions got: Great team

Which would you prefer?

Well, we aren't going to be the team in this example that trades the farm for an established QB so I think our best shot is to be the Lions?

(Yesterday, 11:46 AM)bengalfan74 Wrote: BINGO

We can only hope and pray that happens here. You would think they'd wake up and smell the coffee.

They are awake, sadly.  That's the issue with our front office...they aren't going to suddenly "wake up" and realize what they are doing isn't working, because they are fine doing things the way they are doing them and if the planets align and we are good/great/champs, so much the better.

It'd be nice to trade picks for players, but that might require actually doing something that isn't mandated by the NFL and trading someone like Tee rather than letting him walk for a conditional pick.  Get off yer arse and get a better pick to trade for players.

The main reason we are any good is because we won 6 games over the span of 2 years and were able to draft Burrow and Chase, also known as something that is mandatory and gifted to franchises regardless of how lazy and glued to his recliner an NFL team's owner/GM happens to be.  The two best things about this team right now happened due to zero extra effort on the part of our front office...imagine that.  Hell, even if Mike Brown would have made the "wrong" choice of taking Sewell, it'd have been a great pick.  If the draft were somehow optional, I assume we'd opt out of it for some reason.

I even half joked with people who were locked on Burrow but nervous about us trading down that I knew we'd take Burrow at #1  because trading down for a bunch of picks and taking Herbert would have required the acceptance of "optional work" on Mike Brown's part.  So it goes.

[TecmoBengals]

Take away from this thread: We cannot compare the Bengals to other organizations.

Brown and Blackburn family run the team unlike other teams.

[Isaac Curtis: The Real #85]

Keep the foundational guys and make adjustments from there.

We screwed up with Reader big time.

Burrow, Chase, Hendrickson, and Higgins are our elite guys. Pay them. Cut elsewhere if you have to (Rankins, Stone, McPherson, Hubbard, Cappa, D. Sample, Moss, even Pratt/Wilson or let Hilton go).