(9 hours ago)Synric Wrote: Meh. I obviously don't know where they stalled in negotiations but we are just 2 weeks out from the draft. The Front Office is small and is dealing with all the contracts from the draft picks and UDFAs etc. I don't expect them to circle back to Trey until at LEAST mid-June more likely when training camp starts in July.

(6 hours ago)SunsetBengal Wrote: Beware the mysterious injury..

(3 hours ago)PDub80 Wrote: Based on the last reports on this, I'm siding with the Bengals....

- Bengals offered Trey $28Mill/per

- Trey countered by saying mid $30s/per

- Bengals added incentives to the $28 that would get him to mid 30s.

- Trey countered by saying that he shouldn't have to perform to get paid like that at this point in his career since he has already been performing.

- Trey also threatened to retire at one point. Meaning, the Bengals could extend him for 2 years and not get the time. Sorry, folks, but I don't side with the player here in this specific case. I think $28/per guaranteed + incentives to get into the mid $30s is a fair deal for Trey.

- I'm in sales and am a top 1% performer. So much so that I don't have a boss and report directly to the owner, where as the jr sales guys under me report to a GM and then me..... If I go to the owner and tell him that I want my salary next year doubled & then guaranteed based on my sales this year, he would tell me absolutely NOT.  Would he give me some extra points off of the guy's I mentor's sales? YES. Maybe a bump in my % or guaranteed pay? YES. Allow me to buy/earn ownership points in the business? YES....

But would he just look at last year and say, sure, I'll pay you double next year just for showing up, regardless of the results? HELL NO. I've transformed this guy's company by completely changing how they work with clients, introduced new products/services, DOUBLED their sales AND increased profitability on those sales by 20%.... And he would still pay me off of what I keep producing.

Sorry, Trey. Take the $28mill/per + incentives and keep going. That's how the real world/business works. It's all incentive pay in real time.

(8 hours ago)THE PISTONS Wrote: Team has the leverage.

(1 hour ago)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: I always find it interesting when people say things like that about truly star players. 

Without Hendrickson, the Bengals playoff hopes are already over. Their defense is already looking like it will be rough at best, but without your All-Pro sack king? It would be the worst in the league. We saw last year that even if you ask Burrow to throw it 40 times a game to put up MVP-like numbers and Chase has a triple crown, that's still not enough. That's then a third straight season of missing the playoffs, another year of Burrow's career gone, and a souring of fans who the Blackburns want money from.

It's why star players have always had more say and leverage. There's so few of them, they have a massively outsized impact compared to non-stars, and they're so hard/impossible to replace.