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What up Bengals fans and welcome to another episode of the Locked-on Bengals podcast. I'm your host, Jake. Let's go along with your host, James Rupin.

As always, I like to give you guys some reminders on weekend mailbag days to follow us on

Twitter.

You can find me at Jake underscore NFL.

You can find James at James Rappeen.

You can find the podcast, which you need to find if you want to submit your

questions for the mailbag at Lockdown Bengals. Now, you might have noticed that I said it's mailbag day,

and it is. We're taking a one day break, I think, from the Brian Callahan interview. That will be back

early next week. But we did want to keep the mailbag on the calendar.

It's something that James and I both really like.

It's a way for us to get questions from you, what's on your mind.

And some of you even asked about the Brian Callahan conversation.

So we'll talk about those questions too.

And we'll finish up that interview with Callahan next week.

Before we get to the mailbag, though, James,

I want to talk a little bit about contract structure. Paul Dayner Jr. over at the athletic put

together a really cool tool where you can download a Google sheet or an Excel spreadsheet and

kind of go through your own offseason playing within the purported confines of the Bengals cap. And there are some issues that I

think make the contract obligations, the cap obligations a little bit inflated in Paul's tool.

But that all brings me back to let's talk about the way the Bengals structure contracts.

Historically, I went and looked at extensions today because I was looking at Paul's

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