How Bengals' cap management approach exposes them to major risk

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🗓️ 4 February 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Is the Cincinnati Bengals' salary cap approach suited to building winning roster? Jake Liscow and James Rapien revisit Duke Tobin's Senior Bowl comments that may reveal flawed thinking about the cap and cash spending. In a year where they face three decisions on potential monster contracts for their own guys, those contracts don't have to significantly hamstring the salary cap - if the Bengals structure the deals right. But they do reveal how the Bengals are costing themselves by trying to be risk-averse, thus exposing themselves to more risk, in their approach ot certain contracts.

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0:00.0	The Cincinnati Bengals have a ton of cap space to play with this offseason,
0:04.2	but where do we think they see their cap situation?
0:07.9	Let's weigh in on some comments from Duke Tobin and talk about what the cap reality is for the Cincinnati Bengals in this 2025 off season.
0:20.5	You are locked on Bengals, your daily Cincinnati Bengals podcast.
0:25.7	Part of the Locked-On Podcast Network, your team every day.
0:32.1	What up, Bengals fans, and welcome to another episode of the Locked-on Bengals podcast.
0:36.4	I'm your host, Jake Liscoe.
0:38.1	He's your host, James Rapine, and we are Locked-on Bengals on the Locked-on Bengals podcast. I'm your host, Jake Liskow. He's your host,
0:44.0	James Rupin, and we are locked-on Bengals on the Lockdown Podcast Network, your team every day.
0:47.9	We're on YouTube. We're everywhere you get your podcast. So if you're new to the show,
0:52.1	you can hit that subscribe button and you'll be kept up to date on all things Bengals throughout this offseason and into the future.
0:55.2	And we're excited today to talk about the Bengals cap situation.
1:00.7	As we've talked a lot about, a lot of the extensions the Bengals have to do, we went into
1:05.8	some of Duke Tobin's comments from Mobile, Alabama at the Senior Bowl last week, but there's
1:09.9	still some meat on that bone that we haven't gotten into yet.
1:13.8	And started to get to it yesterday, James.
1:15.9	I ranted about this risk aversion paradox that the Bengals have that ends up costing them more resources than it has to.
1:22.7	On yesterday's show, we're going to revisit that topic today as well.
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1:35.7	And before we dive into this Duke Tobin quote where I would like to start the show, James,
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