Bengals three-time Pro-Bowl DE Trey Hendrickson has requested to be traded from Cincinnati, per league source. Hendrickson is due to make $15 million this season, and is looking for more long-term security than Cincinnati has been willing to offer. pic.twitter.com/PDNKTEiKII
THIS is what pisses players off. Clark is a bit of a dork and probably shouldn't have let the standards in the facility drop to league worst, but it's ultimately meaningless compared to this. [Reply]
Although, to be fair, the Bengals aren't really at fault here. Dude signed an extension less than a year ago. That's on him and his representation. Tagging both Bates and Higgins and refusing to engage in contract extension talks at all is pretty bad faith, though. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Sassy Squatch:
Although, to be fair, the Bengals aren't really at fault here. Dude signed an extension less than a year ago. That's on him and his representation. Tagging both Bates and Higgins and refusing to engage in contract extension talks at all is pretty bad faith, though.
Remember when Florio cried about the Chiefs tagging Sneed "with no intention to pay him"?
How exactly is doing it to trade them and get them paid worse than what the Bengals are doing? [Reply]
Why the fuck did he sign a 1 year extension last season anyway? He and his agent are fucking braindead. Sure,.not going to hurt my feelings that the Bengals will have to deal with pissed off star players, but at least in this instance Hendrickson comes off like a total moron. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Sassy Squatch:
Although, to be fair, the Bengals aren't really at fault here. Dude signed an extension less than a year ago. That's on him and his representation. Tagging both Bates and Higgins and refusing to engage in contract extension talks at all is pretty bad faith, though.
Yeah, I remember thinking at the time Hendrickson was doing a very team-friendly deal. Wonder if watching an injured Burrow get paid $45M last year (and another $65M this year) is changing Hendrickson's strategy. Your QB is being paid top dollar with injury problems. Why should anyone on the team provide a discount? [Reply]
Originally Posted by DJ's left nut:
That's what is so rare about it.
3 years is an eternity for those kind of value contracts. At essentially 3 of the most vital positions on the field.
What they didn't have was even replacement value at the 4th of those critical positions - OT.
They simply never even got to average at OT for a QB that badly needs protection to perform.
History won't remember these Bengals at all, but to whatever extent it can be bothered to stoop to notice them, it will look back on them as one of the least successful wide-open windows in modern NFL history.
You judge greatness by its graveyard and Patrick Mahomes has placed a few black and orange tombstones in his. Bills fans can bitch all day about Josh Allen being the right quarterback at the wrong time, but it's the Bengals that absolutely should've won SOMETHING over the last few seasons.
The Bengals probably would have won one if they had Allen. [Reply]
Originally Posted by DRM08:
Yeah, I remember thinking at the time Hendrickson was doing a very team-friendly deal. Wonder if watching an injured Burrow get paid $45M last year (and another $65M this year) is changing Hendrickson's strategy. Your QB is being paid top dollar with injury problems. Why should anyone on the team provide a discount?
That’s a good point. A player might be much less willing to take a team discount or play it out for the sake of winning a title knowing that the QB is like 50/50 to finish the season. [Reply]
Originally Posted by DJ's left nut:
That's what is so rare about it.
3 years is an eternity for those kind of value contracts. At essentially 3 of the most vital positions on the field.
What they didn't have was even replacement value at the 4th of those critical positions - OT.
They simply never even got to average at OT for a QB that badly needs protection to perform.
History won't remember these Bengals at all, but to whatever extent it can be bothered to stoop to notice them, it will look back on them as one of the least successful wide-open windows in modern NFL history.
You judge greatness by its graveyard and Patrick Mahomes has placed a few black and orange tombstones in his. Bills fans can bitch all day about Josh Allen being the right quarterback at the wrong time, but it's the Bengals that absolutely should've won SOMETHING over the last few seasons.
All three of those positions had Top 5 in the league talent as well. [Reply]
Originally Posted by MarkDavis'Haircut:
Ideal Super Bowl windows in this league are short.
The Bengals' window slammed shut.
The only way to have an extended one is elite QB on a cheap deal (Brady) combined with great drafting and defense (Belichick).
Mahomes is making more than Brady did (especially cap percentage, which is the crucial number) but his playoff performance is a stratosphere above any other QB ever, the drafting is amazing, and the Chiefs have Spags as DC.
No other NFL team has that trio.
KC has:
1. The best QB in the league who is at his best when the lights are brightest.
2. One of the greatest HC/Offensive mind of all time who has shown no signs of slowing down.
3. The best DC in the NFL and quickly becoming one of the best ever.
4. Best GM in the league. Others get more praise than him, but no GM does more than he does despite his disadvantages (very high QB salary, teams being hesitant to trade with him, and drafting very late in every round). [Reply]
Originally Posted by Wisconsin_Chief:
So it’s us, Baltimore and Houston in the AFC.
Basically, it’s just us. Let’s be honest.
i don't think Buffalo is quite dead yet. The AFC East is still Buffalo, a soft-ass frontrunning Miami squad, the dysfunctional Jets and the very clearly irrelevant Patriots.
So they can/should sneak into the playoffs on the back of a soft division. And once there, they have the 2nd best QB in the league and thus a puncher's chance. [Reply]
