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when you tune. And don't forget, you can read my work on ESPN.com. I have a story up now about

the release of defensive tackle John Allen to talk about that in a minute. In a couple of minutes,

I'll be joined by Ben Baby, who covers the Bengals for ESPN.

I wanted to talk about Trey Hendrickson and all that's going on with him there, what Ben

knows now, but also to give you a little bit of more info just on Trey Hendrickson, the player,

the person, the guy in the locker room, et cetera.

So because there's a chance that he will

be here. Don't know how strong a chance, but there's a chance. So again, we'll talk about that in a minute.

But let's start with a couple things too. Frayancy essentially starts Monday. That's when the

legal tampering, tampering period starts. But as you know, a lot of deals get agreed to by Monday.

It starts at Monday at noon at Eastern time.

So a lot of deals are going to be agreed to shortly thereafter.

That's essentially the start of free agency.

Then the official start of free agency is Wednesday or 4 o'clock.

That's when contracts can be assigned or then that's when teams can make it official, et cetera.

Now, of course, if a guy's been cut, like John Allen, he can go sign right now with

anybody. So, and then that he doesn't have to wait. And then Washington, of course,

still has a lot of guys out there. As we, as I record this right now, they've re-signed

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