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What up, Bengals fans, and welcome into a bonus episode of the Locked-on Bengals podcast for all the wrong reasons.

I'm your host, Jake.

Let's go along with your host, James Rupin.

And Bengals Country's angry, James.

Carl Lawson goes to the New York Jets for about $15 million a year,

got about $30 million guaranteed.

Former NFL agent and current cap expert Joel Corey tweeting the Bengals contract structure

with lack of contract guarantees besides signing bonus might have been a big factor.

There wouldn't have been $30 million in guarantees for loss to remain in Cincinnati.

So you lose loss into the Jets.

You do nothing to speak of on either side of the ball,

but especially the offensive line.

And you watch Corey Lindley sign with another team.

You watch Joe Tuny sign with another team.

And for me, James, a boiling point was the Lawson news following the Filer news.

I still had Filer to fall back on.

And I still thought, oh, maybe they'll put that money toward Lawson at this point.

But now you're potentially sitting on the third most cap space in the league behind maybe

the Jets and the Jaguars, maybe not even the Jets anymore.

And you've done nothing.

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