Replacement digitizer has rigid flex cable not allowing seating

Replaced cracked digitizer only, not LDC. All went fine and works prior to adhesion. But when I try to seat the digitizer on the frame where the ribbon cable reaches onto the board, the ribbon cables are so rigid I cannot seat the digitizer.

The cabling looks different than my original and part of it has adhesive tape, but I cannot tell where it should be stuck??? I thought the rear of the LCD but it pivots Portrait and the digitizer pivots landscape, so I wouldn’t be able to connect the cables.

Here you can see it in the second picture: https://t-depot.com/ipad-2017-a1822-a182...