Trey Hendrickson Update

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(9 hours ago)Sled21 Wrote: Well what difference does it make because evidently players want new deals every year.

I do see your point Sled.   It is hard to see why we are so wrapped up in the hubris of already wealthy players.

But there are a couple of things wrapped up in this:

Our culture in general, and professional sports in particular are fostering both a sense of entitlement and the peer pressure to get as much as you can for your contract because other players' contracts depend on you to set the bar.   That originates in the powerful need and value of unions becoming perverted by the above mentioned sense of entitlement and peer pressure.

The fact that the Bengals niggle every contract request to death as a matter of course.   They also have a long history of stringing things out, which just creates a culture of angst and self righteous indignation.

The fact that when you wait to give a player their due, you're going to see them back at the bargaining table soon.   And you do yourself no favors because you are forever at the bargaining table.  And lest you think he's getting his due relative to his peers, look at the difference between what he's asking (I've heard up to 32 million a year) and what his peers of similar quality are getting (up to 40 million a year).  Just makes the niggling seem so disrespectful

The Bengals are not going to "man up" and live with their contracts when the player performance doesn't seem worth the money.  They'll cut them or ask them to take a pay cut.

The Bengals "high ground" and delay tactics end up costing the team more.  A lot more.  Because we end up paying more due to kicking the can down the road and end up squandering the money they could have had to meet other contractual needs

They ignore the reality that - if you want to win, you have to do what it takes to get that done instead of taking the high ground

I don't see them as any more morally right than Hendrickson.   Both need to do better.

After a questionable draft we put ourselves in the position to have a worse defense than last year.  What exactly is that??  Some form of righteousness??

No.  Do what you have to do to take advantage of the short window we're going to have a hall of fame QB (if he lives long enough).  Stop cutting your nose to spite your face.

Of course - then how are we going to be inspired to write these tomes of truth?