Trey Hendrickson Update

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(4 hours ago)Nate (formerly eliminate08) Wrote: It doesn't help Trey to try and play stubborn with the Bengals FO. It won't help him if he sits out. It just sucks all the way around as it
hurts the Bengals as he is our best pass rusher by far. Hope they give him an offer he can be happy with.

It helped Palmer and Dunlap.

Palmer got a 2nd Team AP, 2nd place MVP vote, won a playoff game. (Also $90m post-Bengals)
Dunlap went to the playoffs while we went 4-11-1, and later won a SB.

Playing stubborn has worked. You just have to commit to it. What's his alternative? Play 2025 vastly underpaid with no future guarantee, get franchise tagged to be vastly underpaid again with still no future guarantee, and then MAYBE hit FA as a 33-year-old and lose ~$50m with the time passed and no longer having the value of back-to-back 17.5 sack seasons?