The team's director of player personnel Duke Tobin, who serves as the de facto general manager in Cincinnati, made it clear in January that the Bengals wouldn't put Dalton in a situation that he's "uncomfortable with."
"I can tell you one thing, what Andy Dalton's done for the Cincinnati Bengals is not
something that we're going to forget," Tobin told
NFL.com. "We're not going to just willy-nilly, make something happen with him that, a) he's uncomfortable with and, b) that we're uncomfortable with."
If Dalton doesn't demand a new deal as part of a potential trade, then it should make him pretty easy to deal, and that's because he has one of the most team-friendly quarterback contracts in the NFL. The Red Rifle only has one year left on his current deal and the cap hit for that one year is just $17.7 million, which is a bargain for a starting quarterback.