BREAKING: Bengals give Trey Hendrickson permission to be traded

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(03-11-2025, 07:46 PM)XsandOs Wrote: Expressing your opinion is not going to insult anyone's intelligence. Unless you feel that your opinion is educated and there is a lack thereof in the counter.

I will say that nothing divides a Team worse than a few players viewed as the the elite within the Team. That is not just toxic, but tumorigenic. Further fuel is added to the fire, when displeasure from the elite affects the Team performance. We should have been ready for the Patriots game last year!!!

As related to politics, the prevalence of hubris and pomposity coupled with egocentrism is one of the main culprits in the divisions. This is not the forum to discuss politics, so I will not further the discussion. 

There is no shortage of criticism directed towards the ownership and front office of the Bengals, historically and currently - which is fair. But this situation we are in now is beyond ridiculous. I feel that criticism of both parties is fair.    

I see nothing wrong with criticising the Bengals organization. They have given fans many reasons to do so over the years.

I disagree on what you said about having a few elite players on the team that are viewed as elite having a toxic or negative effect on the team as a whole.

The best thing the Bengals have going for them is they are very much a team (almost family-like). The culture is good.

Within a good team culture everyone is celebrating everyone else's success and nobody wants to see others fail.

I thought the top players on the Bengals handled the failure as best as they could last year. Burrow and Chase for example could have blamed the defense in post game interviews--but they would always say stuff like, 'yeah, but we could have closed the game out earlier (pointing to a late drive they failed on)'. (not a word for word quote but that's the type of thing they would say).

I agree that more humility needs to be used in todays discussions. There is too much name calling and strawman arguments going around that furthers the divide. It takes a concerted effort by all parties to be civil and talk things out rationally. Things get too emotionally charged. I remember in school we had classes on forming arguments and arguing one side or another and I didn't like it. You were taught not to concede and discuss openly. You were taught to butt heads. It's part of the culture and the media reinforces it.