N/S Bengals give permission to Trey Hendrickson to seek trade (1 Viewer)

[fnholmes]

Cam should reach out to Trey and ask him to run it back one last time, call it SuperBowl or bust!!! Not likely to happen but one can dream!!!

 

[Ti Rider]

He only has a year left so he is probably looking for a new contract. As much as we whiffed on letting him get away, we don't need to whiff again on signing him to a multiyear deal when he is already 31 years old.

He deserves a huge new contract but not from the Saints. It was a royal screw up letting him walk but that mistake was made years ago. The Saints simply can’t afford him at this point. The Saints need to be looking for the next Trey Hendrickson - either a free agent that was buried on some team’s roster or through the draft.

 

[webster]

Him and Baum?

 

[Que Que 6]

Come back home to the Saints baby, we didn't know what we had, we were stupid. We love you now.

We need to put this on a billboard near his house. LOL. He is the wife we should have married. LOL

 

[Saint KayBee]

baby you can give me all the reasons why it wouldn't work again, but you know we were meant to be, it's beautiful man

I read this in Dusty Rhodes’ voice

 

[Judge_Smails]

I read this in Dusty Rhodes’ voice

And Harley Rhodes . . .

 

[St. Geezy]

Him and Baum?

Zack Baun has already been re-upped.

 

[livefromDC]

They have $51M in cap space and will save $16M if cut or traded.

Yet another team happy to win the Salary Cap Olympics for cap space instead of winning a Super Bowl. The purpose of cap space is for this exact purpose! You have an all-pro in his prime (not just pro-bowler, all-pro) at the most important position on defense and yet your team would rather have the cap space? You're doing it wrong.

Smart move by the Bengals. Hubbard just retired. They drafted a DE a couple seasons ago, so they have one replacement on the roster already. Get whatever they can for Hendrickson now.

They know their offense is where they need to spend money and retain talent.

Defensive players can make the transition easier and this is a loaded defensive draft.

Revamp the defense through the draft and strategic FA signings while keeping the offensive core in place.

No, sorry. This is not a smart move. This is thinking that draft picks are magic. This is thinking that just because you draft a position, it fills a position. The Bengals literally have the most ideal player you can have at DE. Pay him and address positions that need addressing. They're about to create a problem that they didn't have before. By valuing position over player they're creating a problem. The Saints have drafted 4 DEs trying to get this type of production. If Dennis Allen wasn't such a round hole square peg personnel talent evaluator...ugh!!! If he's taught us anything, it's that you can draft the prototypical DE you want until you're blue in the face, and it doesn't mean he will become the player you need.

The Bengals are getting rid of what was one of the lone strengths of a bad defense. Their defense gets even worse the second he's gone. If I'm a Bengals fan, I'm livid right now because this isn't the actions of a team committed to winning. If Hendrickson isn't worthy of using the salary cap space you have, no one will be. Teams fall in love with having ample cap space to pay great players to the point that when it comes time to pay their great player, they can't do it. They become Gollum. My precious cap space! That cap space isn't serving it's purpose when it's not used to retain an all-pro. Seriously, if an all-pro DE is not a good use of cap space, NOTHING will be. This is a team that's happy to save money and barely be competitive.


Ooh an all-pro, but my precious cap space!

 

[Merl]

Yet another team happy to win the Salary Cap Olympics for cap space instead of winning a Super Bowl. The purpose of cap space is for this exact purpose! You have an all-pro in his prime (not just pro-bowler, all-pro) at the most important position on defense and yet your team would rather have the cap space? You're doing it wrong.



No, sorry. This is not a smart move. This is thinking that draft picks are magic. This is thinking that just because you draft a position, it fills a position. The Bengals literally have the most ideal player you can have at DE. Pay him and address positions that need addressing. They're about to create a problem that they didn't have before. By valuing position over player they're creating a problem. The Saints have drafted 4 DEs trying to get this type of production. If Dennis Allen wasn't such a round hole square peg personnel talent evaluator...ugh!!! If he's taught us anything, it's that you can draft the prototypical DE you want until you're blue in the face, and it doesn't mean he will become the player you need.

The Bengals are getting rid of what was one of the lone strengths of a bad defense. Their defense gets even worse the second he's gone. If I'm a Bengals fan, I'm livid right now because this isn't the actions of a team committed to winning. If Hendrickson isn't worthy of using the salary cap space you have, no one will be. Teams fall in love with having ample cap space to pay great players to the point that when it comes time to pay their great player, they can't do it. They become Gollum. My precious cap space! That cap space isn't serving it's purpose when it's not used to retain an all-pro. Seriously, if an all-pro DE is not a good use of cap space, NOTHING will be. This is a team that's happy to save money and barely be competitive.


Ooh an all-pro, but my precious cap space!

Thing is we don’t know everything going on with Trey and the Bengals. Maybe he wants a new deal now or just wants out and is threatening a holed out. There could be many reasons they are willing to trade him now while they can get the most value instead of a likely 3rd round comp in 2027. Or

 

[St. Geezy]

Bengals have tons of cap space. Has nothing to do with money.

Hendrickson already asked to be traded midway through the 2024 season. He just doesn't want to be there.

When it comes to that particular franchise, it likely has more to do with real dollars than cap dollars.

 

[SweetT]

When it comes to that particular franchise, it likely has more to do with real dollars than cap dollars.

This is correct. They procrastinated paying their stars early on and now they have to make sacrifices

 

[No2DC]

Exactly. You can't rebuild the defense when you're paying one dude 1/6 of your salary cap. Tear it down, have a primarily defensive draft and they wouldn't be any worse than they were, but they'd have a defense on rookie contracts while their O is on 2nd contracts. The Rams rebuilt their defense with this exact strategy.

I've heard that the Tee Higgins franchise tactic is really about trading him. You can't make Chase the highest-paid WR and pay Higgins 26 mil this year. They have a top QB and WR, so I hope the plan is to acquire more picks. They should try to make a deal with Henderson, but you can't give him Crosby money.

 

[No2DC]

When it comes to that particular franchise, it likely has more to do with real dollars than cap dollars.

Explain this to me, please. I have heard that the team is cheap for years, but if each NFL team is worth at least 3-4 bil and all teams share tv and other revenue, no team should be in the hole from an operational standpoint.
Is it a matter of a non-independently wealthy owner trying to be greedy?

 

[gavinj]

Explain this to me, please. I have heard that the team is cheap for years, but if each NFL team is worth at least 3-4 bil and all teams share tv and other revenue, no team should be in the hole from an operational standpoint.
Is it a matter of a non-independently wealthy owner trying to be greedy?

The owner wears “hey dudes” shoes

 

[SweetT]

Yet another team happy to win the Salary Cap Olympics for cap space instead of winning a Super Bowl. The purpose of cap space is for this exact purpose! You have an all-pro in his prime (not just pro-bowler, all-pro) at the most important position on defense and yet your team would rather have the cap space? You're doing it wrong.



No, sorry. This is not a smart move. This is thinking that draft picks are magic. This is thinking that just because you draft a position, it fills a position. The Bengals literally have the most ideal player you can have at DE. Pay him and address positions that need addressing. They're about to create a problem that they didn't have before. By valuing position over player they're creating a problem. The Saints have drafted 4 DEs trying to get this type of production. If Dennis Allen wasn't such a round hole square peg personnel talent evaluator...ugh!!! If he's taught us anything, it's that you can draft the prototypical DE you want until you're blue in the face, and it doesn't mean he will become the player you need.

The Bengals are getting rid of what was one of the lone strengths of a bad defense. Their defense gets even worse the second he's gone. If I'm a Bengals fan, I'm livid right now because this isn't the actions of a team committed to winning. If Hendrickson isn't worthy of using the salary cap space you have, no one will be. Teams fall in love with having ample cap space to pay great players to the point that when it comes time to pay their great player, they can't do it. They become Gollum. My precious cap space! That cap space isn't serving it's purpose when it's not used to retain an all-pro. Seriously, if an all-pro DE is not a good use of cap space, NOTHING will be. This is a team that's happy to save money and barely be competitive.


Ooh an all-pro, but my precious cap space!

Been saying this for the longest time, yet all I heard was “you have to build the trenches blah blah blah…..”. While disregarding other key positions