Roughly a month remains before a key deadline for the Cincinnati Bengals to exercise one of multiple possible rolling two-year extensions on the lease at Paycor Stadium.
Until that date, expect to hear plenty of back-and-forth between the team and Hamilton County.
Case in point, in mid-May, the Bengals were displeased with the county for dismissing attorney Tom Gabelman, with the team's lawyer calling it a "a real step backward" in the process. That came on the heels of team and county agreeing in late April on a memorandum to fund the first phase of stadium upgrades, provided a long-term lease agreement happens.