{"id":48898,"date":"2025-05-14T08:05:14","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T08:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/48898\/"},"modified":"2025-05-14T08:05:14","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T08:05:14","slug":"lions-alex-anzalone-takes-side-of-rival-player-in-ongoing-contract-dispute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/48898\/","title":{"rendered":"Lions&#8217; Alex Anzalone Takes Side of Rival Player in Ongoing Contract Dispute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Detroit Lions have managed to keep most of their team intact this offseason in a bid to three-peat as NFC North Division Champs.<\/p>\n<p>The Lions captured the hearts and minds of millions of fans across Michigan and beyond this past season as they came within a handful of difficult injuries of advancing to the NFC Championship Game against the Philadelphia Eagles, which would have been a home game at Ford Field in Detroit.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The Lions&#8217; Alex Anzalone fought bravely down the stretch of the season for the Lions as he braved a broken forearm to play in the Lions&#8217; biggest late season games.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, Anzalone found himself in a surprising position as he took to X to share his thoughts on a rival player&#8217;s contract dispute.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Alex Anzalone with Aaron Jones of the Minnesota Vikings in January 2025. \u00a9 David Reginek-Imagn Images\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"768\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/b0d25fb2faf99ce240bd7cc50699c2ca.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Alex Anzalone with Aaron Jones of the Minnesota Vikings in January 2025. \u00a9 David Reginek-Imagn Images<\/p>\n<p>Anzalone retweeted comments from Cincinnati Bengals defensive end Trey Hendrickson on Tuesday, detailing Hendrickson&#8217;s stance shared with reporters about an ongoing contract dispute.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If I sat here with four sacks, they&#8217;d want a pay cut and some money back,&#8221; Hendrickson said according to Ari Meirov.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m not going to apologize for rates being paid to defensive ends in the National Football League.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Hendrickson has said he won&#8217;t play this season on his current deal with the Bengals, which is valued at $15.8 million for this season.<\/p>\n<p>Anzalone added, &#8220;This&#8221; as his comment along with his retweet.<\/p>\n<p>Fans clamored for Hendrickson to leave the Bengals for the Detroit Lions, which prompted another tweet from Anzalone as he noticed they appeared to miss the crux of his post.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/article\/lions-rookie-isaac-teslaa-gets-060834152.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Related: Lions Rookie Isaac TeSlaa Gets Shout-out From 3-Time Pro Bowler;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Related: Lions Rookie Isaac TeSlaa Gets Shout-out From 3-Time Pro Bowler<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Detroit Lions have managed to keep most of their team intact this offseason in a bid to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48899,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2071],"tags":[6912,6291,256,16762,146,113,2506,7,147,259,871,6,109,4378,1503],"class_list":{"0":"post-48898","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-detroit-lions","8":"tag-aaron-jones","9":"tag-alex-anzalone","10":"tag-cincinnati-bengals","11":"tag-contract-dispute","12":"tag-detroit","13":"tag-detroit-lions","14":"tag-detroitlions","15":"tag-football","16":"tag-lions","17":"tag-minnesota-vikings","18":"tag-nfc-championship-game","19":"tag-nfl","20":"tag-philadelphia-eagles","21":"tag-the-lions","22":"tag-trey-hendrickson"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114505156598734681","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}