The Cincinnati Bengals have made two significant cap cuts well before the start of free agency.

Is that a sign of what's to come in terms of new habits from this Bengals front office?

Let's get into it.

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Heats up and we're starting to get some of these early roster moves from the Cincinnati Bengals earlier

than we're used to. Every dayers out there would know that we've talked about the Bengals often

waiting to have the replacement in hand before making some of their cap cuts. This year, that's not the

case. And so we're going to spend a little bit of time today talking about whether that's the sign of

the Bengals making another small change in the way they do business or whether we're potentially reading too

much into it if that's the conclusion plus what other moves we're expecting. And as you think

about some of the moves that are happening this year, some of the players that are going to

inevitably depart in free agency or otherwise, there's a bit of a turning the page element going on in this critical offseason for

the Bengals as well, James.

We'll get to that a little bit later in the show.

But we start with the news from Monday morning that the Bengals have released Alex Kappa,

the second in a series of pre-free agency significant cap cuts for the Bengals this year.

And one that we knew was coming. It's not something that I think anyone debated. It was kind of

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