(06-12-2025, 10:57 PM)THE PISTONS Wrote: Yeah...I mean the average person is happy to make $100k a year. These guys get millions and there's some wording in a contract they won't sign.

Don't get me wrong, I dont like how the Bengals negotiate sometimes, but if other teams have the wording...we should.

(06-12-2025, 10:59 PM)THE PISTONS Wrote: I think the NFLPA had a hand in negotiating that as it took money from veterans. The veterans are who make up the unions.

(06-12-2025, 07:28 PM)Cosmokramer Wrote: While it’s very easy to be upset when we see other franchises go through dynasties and we just want 1. Sometimes I think it’s lost that this is a for profit business. In the end, it’s business and they want to make the most profit. They are going to handle their finances as they see fit. Sucks for us. But it is what it is.

(06-12-2025, 03:55 PM)c766 Wrote: Forget the 0 super bowl wins, The endless botched draft picks, The myriad of 10+ loss seasons

And Generally being regarded as one of the most incompetent and poorly run pro sports franchises in the world.....


What they are doing right now is truly remarkable.

- Hendrickson multi year contract saga

- Drafting 2 First Round DEs in the span of 24 months who cant sack the QB  

- Shamar Stewart Saga

- Inability to work with the city on the stadium lease - Deadlocked

- Current Cap Space of 31.9 Mll (9th most in the NFL as of today)


This team continues to be an absolute embarrassment for the fans and people of Cincinnati.    They are the same level of ineptitude as the Reds

(06-12-2025, 10:12 PM)c766 Wrote: Rice was a second round selection.

(06-13-2025, 12:24 AM)sandwedge Wrote: If you are so broken up over this team, WTF are you here? I'm sure there is a cliff near you can jump off.

(06-13-2025, 12:24 AM)sandwedge Wrote: If you are so broken up over this team, WTF are you here? I'm sure there is a cliff near you can jump off.

(06-12-2025, 10:59 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: Lol, you say this about him. Another poster says that about Hendrickson.

Weird how the Bengals keep getting surrounded by problems, who knows WHY it happens. You know how the saying goes: "If you run into an asshole in the morning, you ran into an asshole. If you run into assholes all day.... there's a strangely large amount of assholes around you, weird."

(06-12-2025, 10:57 PM)THE PISTONS Wrote: Yeah...I mean the average person is happy to make $100k a year. These guys get millions and there's some wording in a contract they won't sign.

Don't get me wrong, I dont like how the Bengals negotiate sometimes, but if other teams have the wording...we should.

(06-12-2025, 10:54 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: Just hope players aren't getting tired of having their rights drafted away and then forced to sign an artificially lowered value slotted value contract rather than go to the workplace of their choice after an open market bidding war for their services.

-Sam Bradford got a 6yr/$78m (but it wasn't all guaranteed) as a rookie 1st overall pick and was (theoretically) able to get a raise/extension after 1 year.
-Then 10 years later Joe Burrow got 4yr/$36.2m (fully guaranteed) as a rookie 1st overall pick and couldn't get a raise/extension until he finished 3 years in the league.

He led the Bengals to the Super Bowl and then proceeded to make $3.9m in 2022 because of the artificial suppression and he also artificially wasn't allowed to get more money yet.

Don't rock the boat too hard on your cushy deal of vastly underpaying high end talent for the first few years of their career. The price of that is 1st round picks getting guaranteed deals. Once you get greedy and want to take even more from them, that road leads to labor disputes.

(06-13-2025, 05:55 AM)Wyche Wrote: Yeah, I'm not even liking how the Bengals are handling this....but this clown is somehow handling it even worse than them. I think it's key to remember that ALL of the news regarding this is coming from HIS camp. 

(06-13-2025, 05:53 AM)Wyche Wrote:  Trey Hendrickson isn't a rookie that's never taken one damn snap. I think you know me well enough to know that I'm certainly not a front office homer. 

This cat has ran his unproven mouth, and then left camp. I was fine with him avoiding physical activity to minimize risk to his body while not signed.  This is not that. **** that guy.

(06-13-2025, 09:30 AM)THE PISTONS Wrote: And the Bengals have to realize the risk of him doing something like that is low.

(06-13-2025, 09:45 AM)TecmoBengals Wrote: I'm assuming it isn't about just Shemar to them, but rather them wanting to establish how they handle business with all draft picks and players moving forward.

(06-13-2025, 12:30 AM)sandwedge Wrote: Is that supposed to make a difference? 

Quote:The Cincinnati Bengals enter camp with some looming questions. One is the contract status of star pass rusher Trey Hendrickson, who is holding out in hopes of a new deal.

But, another is the status of rookie Shemar Stewart.

The Bengals selected Stewart 17th overall after a stellar career at Texas A&M. At the time, he was expected to be some insurance in case they weren't able to bring back Hendrickson.

However, Stewart decided to leave camp on Thursday due to his contract situation. As of now, he has not signed his deal, and the rookie has been frustrated by some language in the contract from the team.

In an interesting loophole, there is a path to Stewart sitting out the entire year, not signing a contract, and then re-entering the 2026 NFL Draft, as Pro Football Talk's Mike Florio laid out.

Florio mentioned a few scenarios in general. One is that he could refuse to sign and demand a trade, and the other is that he could wait until right before Week 11 and still play in 2025. But the last two options are the most wonky ones.

"Third, he can refuse to sign at all until the 2026 draft begins. At that point, he'd re-enter the draft pool. During the 2026 draft, he could be drafted by any team except the Bengals. Fourth - and this is something that we contemplated during the 2025 draft both as to quarterback Shedeur Sanders and quarterback Quinn Ewers - Stewart could try to return to college for the upcoming season."


So, in theory, Stewart could sit out and re-enter the 2026 NFL Draft, which would be a crucial blow after the Bengals used a first-round pick on him.

Even more surprising is the fact that he could go back to college, but Florio says there are some legal battles that would have to be fought on that front.

Right now, there are some options for Stewart, and it will be interesting to see if the Bengals budge and end this holdout.

(06-13-2025, 10:18 AM)SunsetBengal Wrote: Wow, this is helpful.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nfl/bengals-shemar-stewart-could-re-enter-nfl-draft-thanks-to-cba-loophole/ar-AA1GAW2g?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=16403fbe81b444da882871b94aa42709&ei=34

(06-13-2025, 09:31 AM)THE PISTONS Wrote: Even at that too...camp wasn't even wearing pads, right? The guys were in shorts and t-shirts.

(06-13-2025, 11:04 AM)Millhouse Wrote: Imagine if he decides to go back to college ball, assuming Florio is correct, the impact it could have. That's obviously worst case scenario, and I don't think the Bengals will let it go that far by being stubborn.

(06-13-2025, 11:04 AM)Millhouse Wrote: Imagine if he decides to go back to college ball, assuming Florio is correct, the impact it could have. That's obviously worst case scenario, and I don't think the Bengals will let it go that far by being stubborn.