Locked On Bengals - Daily Podcast On The Cincinnati Bengals
Oct 15, 2026 · 32 min · 15 segments
The Cincinnati Bengals already made one big trade this year, and another could boost their championship aspirations. Should they trade for Derwin James or Khalil Mack to patch defensive gaps before…
Jake LiscowHost
Joe GoodberryHost
And Joe, this question came from Every Dayer club member Mitch to us via subtext.

And Mitch asked a, a question about trade targets, and essentially the question boils down to this: If we could guarantee the Bengals would make a trade from... for, for one player, from one of the NFL's currently one or zero win teams, who would you hope that player would be? What do you think is the actual chance of that happening? And obviously a lot of these players, the, there are reasons that teams don't trade their good players a lot of the time.

So you're looking at, you know, your expiring contracts, veterans, players that you think maybe have fallen out of favor like the Marvin Harrison trade, for example.

But a lot of the bad teams in the NFL right now don't necessarily have a lot of players fitting those criteria.

And a lot of the bad teams don't know they're bad, to, to be frank, right? They're like these teams, the Chargers did not expect to be where they're at, right? So the trade deadline isn't until November 10th.

And that's why they kicked the trade deadline back from what it used to be week eight, is because it gives those, those teams that are failing a chance to say, "Okay, we're in a situation.

Let's trade off some of these assets and get some draft picks and try and reboot this thing as best as we can." Uh, we do get a lot of questions about players that are on rookie deals or maybe even in the second year of their deals.

Uh, guys like Ali Gordon or Amarian Hampton, which we will talk about a little bit, two running backs.

I don't think those are the type of guys that get traded on the trade deadline.

And I believe most of these will happen, if they were to happen, in three weeks or so.

So we're talking about it now because it's the bye week and because I see this as a Super Bowl window season.

And if they win enough games, those teams also wanna make sure they win games, right? If the Bengals go three and one over the next four weeks and they're sitting there in a prime spot to get a player and add a player in your Super Bowl hopes and then, and, and make that stronger, yeah, I could see them pulling the trigger on something like that.

They have for Khalil Herbert and for Joe Flacco in recent years, but those were spurned by...

And Joe, this question came from Every Dayer club member Mitch to us via subtext.

And Mitch asked a, a question about trade targets, and essentially the question boils down to this: If we could guarantee the Bengals would make a trade from... for, for one player, from one of the NFL's currently one or zero win teams, who would you hope that player would be? What do you think is the actual chance of that happening? And obviously a lot of these players, the, there are reasons that teams don't trade their good players a lot of the time.

So you're looking at, you know, your expiring contracts, veterans, players that you think maybe have fallen out of favor like the Marvin Harrison trade, for example.

But a lot of the bad teams in the NFL right now don't necessarily have a lot of players fitting those criteria.

And a lot of the bad teams don't know they're bad, to, to be frank, right? They're like these teams, the Chargers did not expect to be where they're at, right? So the trade deadline isn't until November 10th.

And that's why they kicked the trade deadline back from what it used to be week eight, is because it gives those, those teams that are failing a chance to say, "Okay, we're in a situation.

Let's trade off some of these assets and get some draft picks and try and reboot this thing as best as we can." Uh, we do get a lot of questions about players that are on rookie deals or maybe even in the second year of their deals.

Uh, guys like Ali Gordon or Amarian Hampton, which we will talk about a little bit, two running backs.

I don't think those are the type of guys that get traded on the trade deadline.

And I believe most of these will happen, if they were to happen, in three weeks or so.

So we're talking about it now because it's the bye week and because I see this as a Super Bowl window season.

And if they win enough games, those teams also wanna make sure they win games, right? If the Bengals go three and one over the next four weeks and they're sitting there in a prime spot to get a player and add a player in your Super Bowl hopes and then, and, and make that stronger, yeah, I could see them pulling the trigger on something like that.

They have for Khalil Herbert and for Joe Flacco in recent years, but those were spurned by...
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