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James Rapien (0:59)

Well, well, well, well, well, well, that's five wells. And if you watch The Office and Kevin, he gives you six wells. And then he says, did I get that math right, Dwight? The Bengals didn't get their math right. And that's why Arnold Ebiketie is not a Cincinnati Bengal. And that is one of the many, many things we are going to cover here in this post-trade deadline edition of Enter the Jungle. I'm James Rapien. He's Andrew Fox Miller. Now, we are a few minutes late.

I was knocking out a few trade deadline things that basically is not necessarily kind, I would say, to the Cincinnati Bengals. Andrew, what are you feeling right now? What are you feeling right now when it comes to the Bengals, when it comes to them not doing anything? And the Arnold Ebiketie thing. You were together today during the Arnold Ebiketie fiasco, so to speak.

Just take me through your thoughts right now.

Andrew Fox Miller (1:57)

Yeah, so the Arnold Ebiketie thing is where my thoughts are, because it is a little confusing. You can't say they did nothing. There was evidence of them doing something. For all intents and purposes, it was done until it wasn't. And that's where the confusion, the what are we doing here began. And it ended with nothing. And that's the brief, extremely summarized timeline of everything, of course. But that's where my head's at. You did something, you tried to do something. We saw it all, it was reported on.

But you overlooked something that I get it, most people wouldn't have caught, your average person wouldn't have caught. But I would like to think that front office, someone of Duke Tobin's tenure as a GM, so to speak, would have caught or had of a staff that could have caught. Okay, I can't do anything about that now, it doesn't change anything.

But it's just a weird feeling when you end with nothing after that.

James Rapien (2:56)

I think you're being about as nice as my three year old's preschool teacher would be to her after she does a drawing. Like, they didn't do bleep and I won a cuss. They didn't do anything. In fact, the thing that they tried to do, they got wrong, which is worse than not doing anything. I would much rather them not do anything than not understand the implications of the thing that they were trying to do when it's their job to evaluate the thing that they're trying to do before they do it. Like, like it is.

I'm trying to think like there is not really an equivalent to it.

But the idea that they found out that they're going to lose their third round comp pick on X.

And that's why Twitter and that's why that didn't get done, which is very much, if not completely factual.

It's something that maybe it was reported on. You know, like, I think the story is going to be what was reported on, but we were still evaluating and the timelines don't match up. Like, I think that's going to be the cover up. But it really doesn't matter because before today, you should have known, all right, this is how it could impact a trade for any of these UFA guys that signed in March. This is how it could impact our Compensatory Pick Formula. This is not, like, the deadline is a deadline, but how many weeks have I spent talking about the deadline? They should be far more prepared for the deadline than I am, right? And multiple people, including me, knew about Arnold Ebiketie and their interest in him in March. Deal almost got done and it did not get done. And so if you knew he was a potential target, you should know the implications of that and what's going to happen in the fallout.