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Quick thoughts from this horrified and bemused Bengals fan:

—The Bengals employ a weeble wobble to inform players they are being cut. Interesting. Do they think that will soften the blow?

—Marvin Lewis’ explanation of what the lame slogan “fight back” means was perilously close to looking like a remake of a scene from The Office. In fact, he appeared to be unintentionally channeling Michael Scott.

—As much as I want to loathe Chad Johnson, I still find him funny. A maddening player.

—Mike Brown. Sigh. It is one thing to know he is the owner/gm, it was another to actually see that played out. The scenes of him talking the staff through personnel decisions were painful. As geep said (erstwhile front page poster) as we watched it, Mendlebaum, Mendlebaum, Mendlebaum. I kept waiting for him to pull out a medicine ball and invite someone to take the pain train. His speech to the team to open camp was lame, and he really does suck the life out of a room. The poor position coach who had to explain why Brown’s idea to move a defensive player to tight end was lame was a visual lesson in what discomfort looks like.

So, to recap, the Bengals employ a living weeble wobble to cut players, Mike Brown is, indeed, at the heart of what ails the franchise – and that won’t change until he dies, and Marvin Lewis is Michael Scott.

Let the winning begin.