Trey Hendrickson Update

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(10 hours ago)Luvnit2 Wrote: You maybe correct so choose to pay MB and the team 50K a day missed at TC, then almost 1 million a game for missed games.

I want them to get it done, but Trey will be the big loser in the end. Bengals will not sell one less ticket in 2025 whether Trey plays all 17 games or not. He has zero guarateed money, sit out 10 games and fines equal 10 million bucks between games missed and TC missed. He comes back to get an accrued year, he pays for 6 million for 7 games.

Then Bengals still own his rights.

I get him wanting a lot more, but also he has to understand his situation if he sits out. Nothing changes if they tag him in 2026, he is back to either sitting out or retiring.

He is holding 2-7 and Bengals are holding j-j, he better think long and hard going all in against MB and the Bengals FO with a 2-7.

And yet missing out on that $10m is still only 1/2 of what he'd miss out on by taking $20m signing bonus instead of $40m.

You say the Bengals are holding J-J, and that's absolutely not true. 

You phrase it like Hendrickson has to be crazy to miss out on $10m... but meanwhile think it's a strong hand and only logical that the Bengals tank an entire season before it even starts rather than pay their star player market value. The Bengals will absolutely lose in the end. They seem to be willing to waste an entire year of their players prime, an entire year on all the rookie contracts, they will waste a year of Joe Burrow's career, and they will be known as a place that won't pay defensive talent so NO defensive free agents will want to come here.

If the Bengals keep lowballing him, he only shows up for the bare minimum required, and then they still tag him in 2026, all the Bengals are showing is that they're willing to tank 2 straight seasons of Joe Burrow's career (4 straight years of missing the playoffs) rather than pay their star player market value. That's not a J-J. 

Plus if they tag him then they need to hold at least $26.5m in cap space unused in case if he ever signs the tag and he has no fines because he's not under contract until he signs. That's the Bengals still losing because they now have a huge chunk of their salary cap dedicated for nothing. For what? To show Trey a what-for? That's more important than actually trying to put together a championship team? Good luck to the Bengals FO explaining that to Joe Burrow.