The Cincinnati Bengals recently released their quarterback of almost a decade, Andy Dalton, after the team was unable to find a trade partner throughout the process.
Cincinnati maintained throughout the process that they wanted to do right by the former second-round pick, but it seems an unusually robust quarterback free agent market and quality quarterback draft class made difficult for the Bengals to trade him somewhere he wanted to go.
This process took a lot of time, and Dalton realizes that it may have cost him some opportunities that he could’ve been in play for if he was a free agent.