5/14/25: Mo Egger on Trey Hendrickson

Did Trey Hendrickson accomplish anything yesterday beyond letting everyone know that'll be a distraction while making part of a private conversation public?

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Twenty five minutes close to twenty five minutes, Trey Hendrickson
told his side of the story, got some stuff off
his chest. Maybe that was cathartic for him, therapeutic, but
did it accomplish anything? Is Trey Hendrickson any closer to
getting what he wants from the Bengals today after doing

(00:23):
that media session than he was the day before? Did
that pull the Bengals and Trey Hendrickson closer to each other?
Do we think that Trey did what he did, talked
with reporters, and then suddenly Bengals management decided to hold
an emergency meeting where they decide we're going to rethink

(00:43):
our Trey Hendrickson stance. Like I understand like it might
have felt really good to say what he said. I
certainly can understand the value of, Hey, I'm gonna show up.
There's gonna be cameras, there's gonna be microphones. I can't
be misquoted. But if the goal here is for Trey
to get the deal he's looking for from the Bengals,

(01:08):
are we any closer to that after Trey's media session
than we were before. I think what happened yesterday, though,
was a very clear message was sent. I'm probably not
the first person to say this, I doubt i am,
But the message was, I'm going to be a distraction.
Settle in, buckle up. We've got mini camps, We've got

(01:29):
training camp. By the way, he can be fined for
missing training camp. He's under contract. That wasn't the case
with players like Jesse Bates t Higgins, even though t
Higgins showed up once he signed his franchise tag. But
the message was distraction's coming. Distraction from my teammates, distraction
from my coaches, distraction for the organization. It's and look,

(01:54):
by the way, I certainly believe, more so than with
other players, that Trey may be willing to miss actual
football games the count that's a distraction. I mean, look
at it. Here are my teammates practicing. Here, I am
grand standing. Here, I am talking about me. Here, I
am talking about things that have nothing to do with

(02:16):
what my teammates and this organization want to accomplish this year.
I'm going to be a distraction. Maybe you think he
should be, maybe you think he's justified as being a distraction,
But we as football fans fret all the time about distractions.
Trey Hendrickson made it known. I'm gonna be one and
there's just one more thing about this that I can't

(02:37):
stop thinking about. And maybe this doesn't matter, maybe it
doesn't matter to you. But one of the things Trey
alluded to was, well, Zach Taylor, in a text, told him,
if you don't come to mandatory mini camp, you can
be fined. First of all, I would like to think
that at this point in his career, Trey knows that
the mandatory part more than implies if you don't show

(02:59):
up to be repercussion, there's gonna be consequences. So chances
are he knows that. But revealing what your coach is
texting you and putting it out there in the public, man,
that's weak. That is weak. First of all, we don't
know the context. Was that part of a larger text
conversation where mini camp came up and Zach did his

(03:22):
job and just reminded him, hey, man, you know they're
gonna find you if you don't show up. Was it
a one off text, a terse, simple one text, one
shot where Trey sort of just decides out of the blue,
I'm gonna text him, like, we don't know, but frankly,
either way, that's an exchange that should be private. And
if I'm Zach Taylor today, I am pissed. First of all,

(03:44):
I'm not the reason you're not paid. Ying Zach Taylor
wants Trey Hendrickson's deal done, I'm sure he does. Get
him in camp. Get this over with. I'm trying to
win a Super Bowl. I'm trying to save my job.
Your coach texts you something that's related to official team
business and you decide to go public with that. Man,

(04:07):
that is weak as hell. And maybe that's not the
most important part of this. But again, I think Trey
makes some very good points. I think Trey's position is
not totally invalid. I don't think the Bengals position is invalid.
But I'm looking at this objectively. Yesterday, all right, you're

(04:27):
talking with reporters, which means you're appealing to the public.
If you want to win me over, don't do stuff
like that that makes you go Man, that's weak. Revealing
what your head coach is telling you in a text
conversation is beyond week