Bengals wide receiver Ja’Marr Chase said that while he doesn’t want to play in the preseason, he understands that may be what’s best for a Cincinnati team that has lost its first two games the past three seasons.

That “energy” could have been described as a distraction given that Hendrickson arrived to take some shots at head coach Zac Taylor and the front office and did so on the fiel

Cincinnati won its final five games of the season to finish 9-8, but its slow start was too much to overcome. The Bengals were upset by the lowly New England Patriots in Week 1, lost to the Kansas City Chiefs in Week 2,