Trey Hendrickson Update

[Bengalbug]

(9 hours ago)samhain Wrote: We're fairly clear-eyed.  You see a well-intentioned, aw shucks downtrodden billionaire family with the worst "luck" imaginable since the death of the patriarch.  Just a happy accident that they are always getting busted out for bending over backwards for a dime.  Like multiple times a year for actual decades. Constantly in conflict with star players that fans like you paint as mean old jocks just trying to hurt the Brown Family Charitable Community Trust for Starving Kids and 3 Legged Dogs.  
But yeah, it's the "haters" that have it wrong. Definitely no pattern here.
What are you going to do to defend them when the alienate the best player ever to wear stripes this offseason and he starts to want out after 3 straight non-playoff seasons.
Don't worry Sled.  It'll be okay.  The family will still be worth 5-6 billion whether or not Joe wants to be here.  

If anything we've graded the family on a curve since the Marvin era.  They get major kudos for crap normal teams have done forever.  Ring of Honor, Indoor practice facility (temporary), hiring one or two freaking scouts when other teams have 30.  Actually cutting players with dead money when they are physically through.  Singing B tier outside FAS.  Winning an actual playoff game for the first time in 3 freakking decades.  Always big applause like a parent gives their D student kid when he makes 5 C's and a B minus.  It's a goddamned miracle!  The hater crap is a figment of your imagination.  We're all ready for them to act like a real NFL organization.  I don't get why folks like you are content for them to remain average.  Quit treating them like bumpkins.  They're billionaires that would look down their noses at you if they saw you walking down the street.

It’s not like they can go back and right the wrongs man. They have been playing catch up like the practice facility, ring of honor and other things you mentioned. They won a playoff game in ZTs third year and burrows second season, in route to a Super Bowl win. Yes, they have missed the playoffs two years in a row, albeit one season was over after burrow got hurt. But even still, this team has played relevant January football for 4 years in a row.

I disagree that they look to remain average, I think they look to remain flexible (which can come off as cheap). But just look at a guy like Christian Wilkins, who was cut after one year and still is sitting on the market.

If you are still looking at the bengals as the same franchise as you did as the 90s, you always will. People change, teams change. Obviously there are tendencies that will always creep up, it’s in their DNA… but I do think the bengals have made a (much) better effort since Zac has been here.

Go be a cowboys fan, and tell me when it’s better than being a bengals fan.

Point is, every franchise/team goes through whatever shade you are throwing at the (current) bengals. The pats were the king of the hill, unprecedented, for two decades, but now they are building back up.

You seriously can’t be holding on to 90s like it’s relevant to today. That’s weird, and nothing to back up that claim.