Analyzing Cincinnati Bengals Negotiating Strategy With Trey Hendrickson

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00:00With Trey, they've already negotiated two contracts with him.

00:05His first contract with the Bengals, four years for 60, a one-year extension which he'll

00:09plan on this year, or set to plan on this year, and so work out another extension.

00:15Add two years, bump him up, give him three years 70.

00:20Right now he's basically at a $16 million cash this year that he's going to make.

00:25Give him a bump this year, and add a couple of years onto his deal, boom, done.

00:34With T, I really think you tag him, you don't let him get to free agency.

00:39If he gets to free agency, he's gone, he's gone, I promise you, because then you get

00:43wined and dined, and you're going to get all this money up front, all these things, but

00:48they don't have to give him what he would get in free agency.

00:51It's just like Trey.

00:52They don't have to do that.

00:54When I decipher these comments, one, they're prepared to make Jamar Chase the highest paid

00:58wide receiver in NFL history, prepared, they know it, it's going to happen, boom.

01:04For Trey, in the comments, and I'm going to read them again here, just, we can't have

01:10guys at the top of the payroll in every position, right?

01:12We'll do what we can, we'll do what we feel like is right.

01:14He also said he has earned a pay raise and a bump in an extension.

01:18We're cognizant of that, and we will give that to him, but whether we agree.

01:22Basically he's saying, you know what?

01:23We want to pay Trey more.

01:24We want to keep Trey around.

01:25We're not going to make him the highest paid defensive end in football.

01:28I don't really have a problem with that, because I don't think Trey Hendrickson is Micah Parsons.

01:33I don't.

01:35Because of age, because of impact, I don't think he's Miles Garrett or TJ, I think he's

01:40right there.

01:41I think he's right in that next tier.

01:43I think he should be paid more than he is now, he's been such a great value, but I'm

01:47also aware that they shouldn't just throw out money to throw out money, because you

01:51want them to address card.

01:53It is a negotiation.

01:55They want to keep Trey, so get them to $25 million per year, and let's call it a day.