We’ve seen contract updates coming from reporters. We’ve seen it coming from the Head Coach or the player himself. The front office, even. But to get an update from a teammate? That’s new. And that’s exactly what we got from Joe Borrow in a recent interview. He talked about the Trey Hendrickson contract saga, and he might’ve given a more valuable update than any reporter has since the saga started.
To put it lightly, he asked everyone to calm down. “I think historically these deals with us have gotten done closer to Week 1. I signed the Thursday before the first game… historically the way we have done business that tends to pick up here in the next two weeks, so, we’ll see,” he said. Exactly. Wait until September before jumping to conclusions. That’s the prime time for these deals to be done.
And Joe Burrow knows that. His own megadeal landed right as a season kicked off. He put pen to paper on a five-year, $275 million extension with the Bengals in early September 2023, basically on the doorstep of Week 1.
Burrow on Hendrickson situation: “I think historically these deals with us have gotten done closer to Week 1. I signed the Thursday before the first game. Ja’Marr started to pick up that week before last year, too … historically the way we have done business that tends to pick…
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