Trey Hendrickson Update

[*ochocincos*]

(Yesterday, 02:54 PM)Sled21 Wrote: I think if the organization fires their O-line coach and hires a new one, and their new hire says he likes a player and can fix him, then he deserves to have that opportunity. Otherwise you are just disenfranchising the new coach before the season ever starts.

That's fair.
At the end of the day, this is Volson's last year though under contract.
I would hope he's not retained if he ends up performing poorly again this season.

[Soonerpeace]

(Yesterday, 12:28 PM)rfaulk34 Wrote: You could certainly claim they're better on paper and i doubt you'd get much if any argument. It remains to be seen if that translates to on the field. 

I guess my feeling is, if the SB line was a 2 out of 10 and this line ends up being a 4 or 5 out of 10...sure it's improvement but it's still sorely lacking. 

Well I’m not suggesting this is a SB roster. The offense I think will be. But the defense just doesn’t have any all pro level players except for Trey. But on paper the OL is improved.

[NotBigzo]

(Yesterday, 08:02 AM)Sled21 Wrote: So since this line has never played together and there is no way to say they're better than the Super Bowl line, then how can one say "We aren't winning the Super Bowl with this line? If one is an unknown, certainly the other is as well. 

People have said the same thing year after year since 2015. "This line will be better than last year's" only for there to be slight, marginal improvement at best. 

That's what 11 years of shit O lines get you. Can't beleive people still give it the benefit of the doubt. 

Could it be better than the SB line? Sure, but that's not that big a hurdle. Wouldn't count on it because of a decade-long pattern though.

[Essex Johnson]

(Yesterday, 11:13 AM)Nicomo Cosca Wrote: The projected starting 5 are:

OBJ - Fairchild - Karras - Patrick - Mims

So no, the starters have not played together yet. It’s literally 2 brand new guards.

Yes 3 have and a projection i saw was Ford is also in running so the idea the majority have not played together is 100% false

[Essex Johnson]

(Yesterday, 12:08 PM)ochocincos Wrote: The actual cap space remaining, which is $32.6 mill, per Spotrac. That's 8th highest remaining in the league.

Hendrickson won't really care what the cap space itself is, just that he gets his money.
And he likely wants it either frontloaded or more guaranteed in event he may get moved before the end of his potential new deal.

If Bengals don't want to guarantee as much, they should restructure and plan to frontload up to an extra $20-25 mill this year and drop down the subsequent years.
They have the cap space this year to bump up Trey's 2025 cap hit from $18.67 mill to $35-45 mill without going over.

Still does not address my point of value, trey seems to have a higher value than bengals, cap space is secondary, also can't bengals carry over cap for next year which can impact next year signings? 

[*TheLeonardLeap*]

(5 hours ago)Essex Johnson Wrote: Still does not address my point of value, trey seems to have a higher value than bengals, cap space is secondary, also can't bengals carry over cap for next year which can impact next year signings? 

Are we trying to win this year or are we trying to win next year?