Trey Hendrickson seizes the narrative
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🗓️ 14 May 2025
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Summary
The impasse between Trey Hedrickson and the Bengals took its most bizarre turn yet on Tuesday when the star pass rusher staged an impromptu press conference on the practice field at the team's facility during OTAs. The Athletic's Bengals beat writer Paul Dehner Jr. was there, and he joins Robert Mays on this episode of The Athletic Football Show to discuss exactly what happened, how it all transpired, how things got to this point, and, ultimately, where it all goes from here.
Hosts: Robert Mays and Derrik Klassen
With: Paul Dehner Jr.
Executive Producer: Michael Beller
Producer: Michael Beller
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Athletic Football Show. |
| 0:05.9 | I'm Robert Mays. |
| 0:07.0 | A little bit of an emergency podcast today. |
| 0:09.2 | We were going to start our lingering question series with me and Derek, but the |
| 0:12.0 | Trey Hendrickson situation in Cincinnati and him kind of holding what amounted to an impromptu |
| 0:17.2 | press conference on the sideline showing up in a surprising way at OTAs that |
| 0:22.3 | were not mandatory. I just thought it was a strange scene and something you don't see very often. |
| 0:28.3 | He's really taking it upon himself to talk directly to the public as part of this impasse with |
| 0:33.8 | the Bengals. It goes back all the way to the Super Bowl when he's on McAfee and really has |
| 0:37.8 | continued throughout the entire offseason. And I think the dynamics of this relationship |
| 0:42.4 | between the Bengals and Trey Hendrickson are interesting. And I think some of the specifics about |
| 0:46.7 | how he's trying to pull certain levers when it comes to leverage, why the Bengals don't want to pay |
| 0:51.7 | him, how this organization operates. There's just a lot going on here. And so to dig into that today, I wanted to invite our Bengals writer at the athletic Paul De N. Jr. who had his own interesting moment with Trey Hendrickson, which you guys will hear at the top of this show. But, you know, Paul does a great job covering the Bengals. And I thought this situation and kind of what it said about the NFL at large at this point in the calendar was really worth digging into. So that's what |
| 1:15.5 | we're doing today. And let's get to that conversation with Paul Dana Jr. right now. |
| 1:25.4 | Joining us today to chat through the latest developments in the Trey Hendrickson saga with the Cincinnati Bengals. |
| 1:32.4 | It is our intrepid Bengals reporter at the athletic, the one the only Paul DeNer Jr. |
| 1:36.5 | Paul, you doing, man. |
| 1:37.6 | I'm doing great. |
| 1:38.6 | It's probably never good for the Bengals if I'm coming to you from outside the locker room like this in May. |
| 1:44.4 | That's not good. That's not good. |
| 1:48.0 | It was one of those things where, you know, we didn't have a space to talk about this. |
| 1:53.3 | And I was like, you know what? |
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