The Edge of Tomorrow.
Your friendly neighborhood ball-knowers return to discuss the Cincinnati Bengals‘ ongoing saga with defensive end contracts. Who would have thought that David Mulugheta’s guy (Joseph Ossai), would be the easy one.
No, Trey Hendrickson is not getting traded. Stop trying to make it happen.
No, Shemar Stewart is not going to enter next year’s NFL Draft. That would be downright nutty.
Both Hendrickson and Stewart seem to have the support of their teammates. Orlando Brown and Joe Burrow, for their part, seem pretty confident this gets worked out.
Hendrickson is working out in Cincinnati at Black Sheep Performance (no connection to the Chris Farley/David Spade film of the same name). He hosted a youth football camp in Dayton last weekend. He’s doing charity events for Cincinnati Children’s Hospital while wearing his jersey and Ted Karras’s hat.
All of these things seem to be very good signs that the Trey Hendrickson drama could be nearing an end.
Then there is Shemar Stewart. This drama just won’t die.
Zac Hiller, the agent for Shemar Stewart, was on SiriusXM today with Solomon Wilcots and Christian Fauria.
Hiller: “Obviously my job, and all agents’ job, is to protect the players. Simply put, Shemar would, of course, love for his contract to be as protective as the rest of…
— Mike Petraglia (@Trags) June 23, 2025
His agent had a conversation with Christian Fauria and Bleav’s own Solomon Wilcots, and he said a lot of things that you would expect him to say, but he did make a couple of comments that are pretty telling.
Plus, we talk about what Chris Tucker and Zac Taylor have in common: P.H.A.T.
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— Andrew Fo Miller (@AndrewFoxMiller) June 21, 2025
Taylor wants his Physical Hungry Accountable Team. Me, I just want Rush Hour 4: Commuter Lane.
Besides, maybe there is a better, more up-to-date acronym for the 21st century?
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Who Dey!
