Trey Hendrickson Update

[*Nate (formerly eliminate08)*]

(08-20-2025, 04:25 PM)Sled21 Wrote: If they offer him 34 million to play this year, he's going to play. He'd be totally ignorant not to.

For sure.

[Nicomo Cosca]

(08-20-2025, 04:08 PM)Sled21 Wrote: But they can't on the defensive side of the football, so that's moot.

It’s not moot. If they want to actually be legit contenders that has to change.

[*rfaulk34*]

(08-20-2025, 04:06 PM)Sled21 Wrote: No, they are fine with the money, the money has already been agreed to. They just don't want to be locked into guaranteed money if and when his performance drops. It's not like he's a 2nd contract player, he's a 4th contract player on the backend of his career. Sure, he was great last year and maybe will be great this year. Do you really want to bet he'll be great 3 years from now? Did you ever stop to ask yourself why Trey is so desperate to have that third year guarantee???

What i really want is to win a SB this year. Hell, next year too. 

That means i want players signed that can help that. I don't care about 3 years from now, right now. 

[*rfaulk34*]

(08-20-2025, 04:16 PM)Nate (formerly eliminate08) Wrote: You would think Trey would just sign the extension instead of playing on what he currently will be getting, cause yeah, he will lose time 
and a ton of money if he sits out and could be the end of his career.

Because other guys his age and with similar production are getting what they're getting. 

That's how it works. You should get paid commensurate with your peers. In the NFL or at McDonalds. 

[*Nate (formerly eliminate08)*]

(08-20-2025, 05:09 PM)rfaulk34 Wrote: Because other guys his age and with similar production are getting what they're getting. 

That's how it works. You should get paid commensurate with your peers. In the NFL or at McDonalds. 

I get that for sure. Just hope we have his offer closer to those guys now so it is easier for him to sign. Trey isn't as good of a run stopper as
Twatt so I think Danielle Hunter is the End who's contract we need to be the closest to IMO.

[*rfaulk34*]

(08-20-2025, 05:32 PM)Nate (formerly eliminate08) Wrote: I get that for sure. Just hope we have his offer closer to those guys now so it is easier for him to sign. Trey isn't as good of a run stopper as
Twatt so I think Danielle Hunter is the End who's contract we need to be the closest to IMO.

Run stopper from the right side is a bit overrated. Certainly, Trey isn't quite as good as some others but this is recently being brought up as some knock on his worth. The guy gets to the QB on par with the best in the biz. If he's a little lax in the run...so what? It's not like he's a sieve over there, just a little less than some others and he makes up for it with how he tortures NFL QBs. 

And he's already in the building!!!!!! 

Oh...and his tackle numbers have gone up for 3 straight years.

[*Nate (formerly eliminate08)*]

(08-20-2025, 05:35 PM)rfaulk34 Wrote: Run stopper from the right side is a bit overrated. Certainly, Trey isn't quite as good as some others but this is recently being brought up as some knock on his worth. The guy gets to the QB on par with the best in the biz. If he's a little lax in the run...so what? It's not like he's a sieve over there, just a little less than some others and he makes up for it with how he tortures NFL QBs. 

And he's already in the building!!!!!! 

I just hope we can afford it. I don't know the specifics and want Trey extended as much as anybody. But to extend Ja'Marr to the biggest non-QB
contract ever while extending Tee and others is a lot to pull off. If we do it I will be surprised, never thought all 3 would be here extended.

Will be very happy if it goes down like this.

[*rfaulk34*]

(08-20-2025, 05:38 PM)Nate (formerly eliminate08) Wrote: I just hope we can afford it. I don't know the specifics and want Trey extended as much as anybody. But to extend Ja'Marr to the biggest non-QB
contract ever while extending Tee and others is a lot to pull off. If we do it I will be surprised, never thought all 3 would be here extended.

Will be very happy if it goes down like this.

I added to my previous post, that you just quoted. 

[*Nate (formerly eliminate08)*]

(08-20-2025, 05:35 PM)rfaulk34 Wrote: Run stopper from the right side is a bit overrated. Certainly, Trey isn't quite as good as some others but this is recently being brought up as some knock on his worth. The guy gets to the QB on par with the best in the biz. If he's a little lax in the run...so what? It's not like he's a sieve over there, just a little less than some others and he makes up for it with how he tortures NFL QBs. 

And he's already in the building!!!!!! 

Oh...and his tackle numbers have gone up for 3 straight years.

(08-20-2025, 05:38 PM)rfaulk34 Wrote: I added to my previous post, that you just quoted. 

Another good point. Sunset has been showing that Trey isn't as bad of a run stopper as others have insinuated as well. He gets his TFL in 
the run game and he is tackling better late in his career as you show with his numbers going up. Get it done baby and get Risner back in 
here after his other visits.

[*rfaulk34*]

(08-20-2025, 05:41 PM)Nate (formerly eliminate08) Wrote: Another good point. Sunset has been showing that Trey isn't as bad of a run stopper as others have insinuated as well. He gets his TFL in 
the run game and he is tackling better late in his career as you show with his numbers going up. Get it done baby and get Risner back in 
here after his other visits.

[*TheLeonardLeap*]

(08-20-2025, 12:28 PM)ochocincos Wrote: This was same situation as Chiefs back when they drafted Karlaftis, McDuffie, Pacheco, and Chenal.

ESPN also on the MNF broadcast mentioned Bengals have 39% of their cap going toward the QB and top two receiving weapons, which is highest in the league.
If you are paying that much for just 3 players, you gotta hit on bargain FAs and draft picks at some point if you wanna get (back) to the Super Bowl.

Bengals intentionally did that when they didn't need to.

Ja'Marr Chase cap hit the year he signed extension: $23.6m
Justin Jefferson cap hit the year he signed extension: $8.6m
Justin Jefferson cap hit the SECOND year after he signed extension: $15.2m

Tee Higgins cap hit the year he signed extension: $24m
Brandon Aiyuk cap hit the year he signed extension: $5.7m
Brandon Aiyuk cap hit the SECOND year after he signed extension: $9.9m
Jaylen Waddle cap hit the year he signed extension: $9.1m
Jaylen Waddle cap hit the SECOND year after he signed extension: $8m

So if the Bengals operated like a real NFL team that were actually interested in fitting as much talent onto our team as we could rather than intentionally inflating our cap hits currently... just our WRs would have given us ~$32m more cap space this year to go with our current $30m. 

There's no way we could have ever improved our defense with $62m in cap space and a real FO whose primary intention was winning a SB.  

[Brownshoe]

(08-20-2025, 04:03 PM)Sled21 Wrote: So do you go from a disastrous defense by paying one guy all the money at one position, or spread that money around to upgrade say 3 or 4 positions?

It all depends. Who are the 3-4 positions, and who's the one guy? Without Trey this defense is worse than what it was last year by far. Even if we got 3-4 slight upgrades on defense but lose EASILY the best defensive player we have it's a worse defense. Trey had basically half the sacks last year. I couldn't even imagine how bad this defense would be without him.

[*rfaulk34*]

(08-20-2025, 05:50 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: Bengals intentionally did that when they didn't need to.

Ja'Marr Chase cap hit the year he signed extension: $23.6m
Justin Jefferson cap hit the year he signed extension: $8.6m
Justin Jefferson cap hit the SECOND year after he signed extension: $15.2m

Tee Higgins cap hit the year he signed extension: $24m
Brandon Aiyuk cap hit the year he signed extension: $5.7m
Brandon Aiyuk cap hit the SECOND year after he signed extension: $9.9m
Jaylen Waddle cap hit the year he signed extension: $9.1m
Jaylen Waddle cap hit the SECOND year after he signed extension: $8m

So if the Bengals operated like a real NFL team that were actually interested in fitting as much talent onto our team as we could rather than intentionally inflating our cap hits currently... just our WRs would have given us ~$32m more cap space this year to go with our current $30m. 

There's no way we could have ever improved our defense with $62m in cap space and a real FO whose primary intention was winning a SB.  

Yep. They're still stuck in 'total contract' mode. Looking at the future as being equal to right now. 

If i had to wager, i bet a good number of these FO backers are in 'win now' mode as well. They just want to argue against any "FO poo poo" points, which are all valid. 

Seriously, what Bengals fan doesn't want to win now with Burrow and Co in their prime? The FO isn't thinking that way though. 

[*Nately120*]

(08-20-2025, 05:53 PM)Brownshoe Wrote: It all depends. Who are the 3-4 positions, and who's the one guy? Without Trey this defense is worse than what it was last year by far. Even if we got 3-4 slight upgrades on defense but lose EASILY the best defensive player we have it's a worse defense. Trey had basically half the sacks last year. I couldn't even imagine how bad this defense would be without him.

On the plus side, if we don't have Trey and this defense is as bad as we fear we can at least watch Burrow throw for like 6000 yards and 60 TDs.

[*rfaulk34*]

(08-20-2025, 06:01 PM)Nately120 Wrote: On the plus side, if we don't have Trey and this defense is as bad as we fear we can at least watch Burrow throw for like 6000 yards and 60 TDs.

It worked at LSU...




Wait...LSU had a better defense. Ugh

[*ochocincos*]

(08-20-2025, 06:01 PM)Nately120 Wrote: On the plus side, if we don't have Trey and this defense is as bad as we fear we can at least watch Burrow throw for like 6000 yards and 60 TDs.

(08-20-2025, 06:05 PM)rfaulk34 Wrote: It worked at LSU...




Wait...LSU had a better defense. Ugh

Well if the team ends up underperforming (again), there could be some good picks if they're picking in the Top 10.
Potentially Caleb Downs (SAF, Ohio St), Peter Woods (DT, Clemson), Keldric Faulk (DE, Auburn), TJ Parker (DE, Clemson) just to name a few I am seeing mentioned early on. Obviously, some of these guys are being projected high because of anticipated strong performance this college season to get them there, but if it doesn't happen, they may not go Top 10, possibly not even 1st round.

Believe it or not, Bengals also may need to start considering finding the heir to OBJ, as OBJ enters final year under contract next year, and he'll be 30 when his contract ends.

[Fan_in_Kettering]

Micah Parsons and the Dallas Cowboys are having issues. I wish Duke would place a call to Parsons’ agent.

[HarleyDog]

(08-20-2025, 07:00 PM)Fan_in_Kettering Wrote: Micah Parsons and the Dallas Cowboys are having issues.  I wish Duke would place a call to Parsons’ agent.

Me too. But, if the struggle to sign Henderson is as real as it is? They would probably call Parsons' agent and sign his son, who might be in peewee.

[Essex Johnson]

(08-20-2025, 05:08 PM)rfaulk34 Wrote: What i really want is to win a SB this year. Hell, next year too. 

That means i want players signed that can help that. I don't care about 3 years from now, right now. 

That is because you are a fan of team not the owner of the team, a difference in perspective 

[Sled21]

(08-20-2025, 05:08 PM)rfaulk34 Wrote: What i really want is to win a SB this year. Hell, next year too. 

That means i want players signed that can help that. I don't care about 3 years from now, right now. 

No, you want a "Player" singular, while my thought is the money is better spent upgrading multiple positions on the defense.