Trey Hendrickson Update

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(05-19-2025, 05:30 PM)rfaulk34 Wrote: That is where the disconnect is.

You're saying "huge raise". If you're badly underpaid...i have a hard time giving credit because you're giving someone a "huge raise". They're offering a huge raise that still leaves him making less than the top EDs. 

I'm not sure where i contradicted myself but something that comes to mind with what you're doing and what some others have done is...why are you so staunchly defending the Bengals front office? At what point have they EVER done anything that remotely says 'modern franchise', 'forward thinking' or anyting other than archaic, penny-pinching and stubborn?

What has the franchise ever done for you that causes you to want to defend them? Won some regular season games? Finally won some playoff games and made a super bowl? Do you realize that their inability to understand what it takes to be a championship franchise is why you've never been able to celebrate a SB victory? 

This front office is the #1 reason right now why Burrow, Chase, et.al., have not won any rings, with the way they've decided to build this team...yet here some are, still screaming from the rooftops that Brown and fam are doing things right. 

It bottles the mind.

What makes you think I'm defending the Front Office? If Trey is badly underpaid, that is his fault and the fault of his incompetent agent, not the front office. The front office, like it or not, is a business. They offered him a raise they didn't have to in order to keep him happy. It failed and he came back wanting more. There's nothing in Hendrickson's history that says if they give him what he wants this year, he won't be doing the same thing next year. He wants to be paid like the top DE's, but he's not a top DE. He is an excellent pass rusher who is mediocre against the run. Having players like Burrow, Chase, and Higgins on deals means there is only so much more money to go around. Hendrickson could wait till next year when he's due a new contract, but I suspect he deep down knows his time is coming to an end and his performance will drop off. There's also precedents to be set, give Hendrickson a new contract every time he whines, and you don't think Chase will be doing the same thing when the next batch of receivers sign for more than him? After all, he will want to be paid like a top WR, right? At this point why even have contracts? Just pay these guys on 1-year deals and let them renegotiate every year.