The Cincinnati Bengals off season has played out with public negotiations everywhere.

We're seeing how the sausage is made, and it is not pretty.

Let's break it down.

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I'm Jake Liscoe.

He's James Rapine.

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who already have those habits. We're going to issue a little programming note here today

before we dive into several topics that involve more or less public negotiations, whether it's Marsewer, Trey Hendrickson, the Pay Corps Stadium lease, the various pay cuts the Bengals have given out while those didn't play out publicly.

They obviously have a public aftermath.

A lot of things happening in the public eye this year,

which makes them, I think, a little bit more uncomfortable than normal.

But before we dive into the conversation,

we're hitting that part of the year where, yes,

the Bengals have their mandatory mini camp coming up pretty soon,

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