Trey Hendrickson Update

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(5 hours ago)Truck_1_0_1_ Wrote: Bingo. That's what the guys on twitter who are usually right, deduced as well (me too: a lot of, "my family needs to be taken care of," and not a lot of, "I'm underpaid," type of talk in his interview).



Who the Browns owner has thrown a ton of his business/personal cash at to skirt the cap rules and all that. The Browns (family) can't do that.



I agree, but I'll go one better and to simply accept what the Bengals HAVE offered him or, at the very least, work with them and not just flat-out say, "they're disrespecting me."

The optics are bad on both sides and both sides dropped the ball: the initial ball-dropping was on his agent, the follow-up is on both of them.

I agree with most all of this Truck, and there is certainly culpability on both the part of Trey and his agent.

But three things:   
1) Getting any agreement from the Bengals is like pulling teeth out of a razorback with your fingers

2) I don't care about the optics.   It's time for the Bengals to step up and put together the kind of team that they have the resources to do.
The guy was the best pass rusher in the league last season and the only difference maker on a defense that was the # 1 reason they didn't
go to the playoffs.   They drafted some talent to help boost that defense to be what is needed to be IF Trey is still on the team.  If they 
want to get a ring they need to stop diddling around and get their house in order.

3) As much as I have complained about Zach, his best work has been to build a culture that makes players want to be here and play for the Bengals.
Part of that culture is fed or starved by disrespecting and frustrating your players (to say nothing of letting the other good ones go).  Why play 
chicken with your own players?  Let's make them feel that everyone is on the same team with winning as the primary goal.   Make them feel 
wanted, respected and psyched to have them playing for a championship team.