Locked On Bengals - Daily Podcast On The Cincinnati Bengals - Cincinnati Bengals' nightmarish defensive performance has them 0-3 and looking for answers

Starting point is 00:00:00 The Cincinnati Bengals might have the worst defense in the NFL. If you could even call it an NFL defense. And that's why they're 0 and 3. Let's break it down. You are locked on Bengals, your daily Cincinnati Bengals podcast. Part of the Locked On Podcast Network, your team every day. What up Bengals fans and welcome to another episode of the Lockdown Bengals podcast. I'm your host, Jake Liskow.

Starting point is 00:00:32 He's your host, James Rupin. We are part of the Lockdown Podcast. that we're covering your team every day, even after they lay the most colossal egg you will ever see and have one of the most embarrassing performances in primetime, on Monday night football, on Ring of Honor Night, that you will ever see. That aside, we have it covered.

Starting point is 00:00:54 We'll break down why it went so awry and what's left for the Bengals this year as they're in a hole that is very hard to get out of, but the season is far from over. This episode is sponsored by Fandall, where you can place a $5 bet. Your first $5 bet will get you $200 in bonus bets, guaranteed. Check it out at fandle.com to get started.

Starting point is 00:01:15 And James, this was an embarrassing effort from a defense that might have one NFL quality. Maybe that's not quite fair. I think, you know, Chris Jenkins was okay tonight. The defensive line is a problem. It is the root of their issues on defense. To me, it was the root of why they could not get a single, stop, a single stop, and they could have won this game, but they could not get a single stop all night.

Starting point is 00:01:42 No, none. The clock, the clock stopped them at half and gave them a breather, just for the special teams to let Austin Ackler return a huge kickoff and set the momentum for the third quarter. Yeah, it was just awful. I mean, the defense was awful. You know what it looked like? It looked like when you're playing against someone in Madden that just isn't used to playing defense, and it's like, all right, well, the first of 40 is going to win, and the first one to make a mistake is going to win. And the Bengals literally couldn't force them into making any mistakes. A field goal, which put them up by two scores, felt like a huge win.

Starting point is 00:02:24 And that's just wild. And yet that's the reality that they face tonight. And there was a mixture. It was explosive plays in the passing game. It was long drives that just take the clock right out of it. And especially in the fourth quarter, some really great throws and great plays by Jaden Daniels. Like there was a mixture, missed tackles and just no playmaking ability. Second and nine.

Starting point is 00:02:52 Well, the commanders get eight yards. Well, now they're converting. You got them second and nine. You can't give up eight yards. And I felt like that happened like 12 times tonight. and they continuously saw third and short and then converted three-fourth downs, fourth and short. You could not get off the field, couldn't make plays. That's the story because the offense was making plays.

Starting point is 00:03:15 And it never felt like they were going to win that game. It never truly, now, were there times where I had some hope that they were going to be able to turn things around? Sure, no doubt about it, because the offense kept them in it. But this defense, that is the story. Because if the defense plays like that, they're not beating any, many, maybe any teams as I think about this, probably any teams in the NFL. I mean, it's as bad as you can be on defense, literally getting no stops.

Starting point is 00:03:48 A few crazy stats about this game, the one that I like is that, oh, where did it go? I just had it. the since 1920 Taylor Cornell had this tweet teams that have zero turnover zero points and score at least 33 points had never lost the game according to his stat head search 112 and oh after tonight it's 113 and one because the commanders did it and won and the Bengals didn't do it and lost this comes a week after the chiefs had the first

Starting point is 00:04:23 win by a team that went for less than 100 less than 300 yards gave up 21 points or more, had three or more turnovers, and converted 18% or less of their third downs. So the Bengals on two ones of very crazy stats in terms of incomplete football games. And that's what this was. This was a defensive meltdown of massive proportions. The Washington commanders had 22 first downs on 57 plays, only nine third downs faced in the game. And as you mentioned, when they got to those third downs and they got the stops, they

Starting point is 00:05:05 went for it on three, four downs and converted all of them without too much drama. And that's one of the more frustrating things about this game is there wasn't any apparent difficulty in what Washington was doing. Outside of their yards per carry, which were much lower than I think either of us would have expected at 3.4, if I would have told you that, the Bengals were going to rush for 6.2 a carry and the commanders were going to rush for 3.4 a carry. Who would have won this game if I would have told you that before this game? Probably it was going pretty well for the karate, right?

Starting point is 00:05:39 Yeah, I think so. At the same time, that's why run the ball guy is wrong because it doesn't necessarily matter. Well, and it just so happened that the Bengals' response to it was selling out to stop the run, which meant they were vanilla and vulnerable defending the pass when they couldn't get pressure rushing for. And that's where it comes back to the defensive line. They're trying to give them help. They're trying to do things to help with the run game.

Starting point is 00:06:06 And then there's just no pressure. Trey Hendrickson almost single-handedly won the game last week by creating havoc, creating pressures, drawing penalties. This week, he had a much tougher go of it, and it was much more apparent that when he can't win consistently, they have nothing in the past. rush and jane daniels was sitting back there for three seconds per throw on unpressured pockets and as troy ickman pointed out on the broadcast essentially playing seven on seven he was just

Starting point is 00:06:38 standing in clean pockets all night yeah and that was literally the story i mean the story is jaden daniels going 21 of 23 being comfortable uh seeing the field making these awesome throws from a crisp clean comfortable pocket and he was able to to make plays with his legs when needed to. And I think that's what was so tough. And that's why I compared it to Madden. It's like, oh, okay, well, this isn't there. Well, I have time to get to this.

Starting point is 00:07:07 Oh, well, that's not there. Why have time to go here? Or I have time to step up. Or I have time to move over. Oh, man, you're going to tackle Brian Robinson on this play. So I'm going to take it myself and I'm going to get the three yards on third and two. Or fourth and one. Like, it was just, it was that easy.

Starting point is 00:07:25 It really, it was like he had a. easy button. And there was, he was, he was playing against a Bengals defense that was in rookie mode. And he was like on all pro. And it's just that, that's it. And I was waiting and waiting. Because we've seen this Bengals defense do this, especially last year, where they get off to these awful starts. They're giving up yards, points, and then they adjust. And then they find a way to get a stop. And it might be ugly and it might not feel great, but you look up and they've gotten a couple of stops and they build a little bit of momentum. And I was waiting and waiting and waiting. And in the second half, after Washington went down and scored again, it's like, ah, this probably isn't coming.

Starting point is 00:08:11 And it didn't. You said it at the time. They needed one stop today. One stop, one turnover. And they couldn't do that. And that's why the Bengals are 0 and 3 for the first time in the Joe Burrow era, first time. since 2019. They have one chance at a stop, and they couldn't fall on the ball.

Starting point is 00:08:32 We'll recap that play, talk about what's to come for this defense. We'll nitpick the offense a little bit, although that's not really fair. The offense was great tonight. There were ways for the offense to win them this game. They did leave some things on the field. So not perfect anywhere, but you can't really expect perfection anywhere, I guess unless you're the Washington commander's offense who scored on every single drive that didn't end in kneel downs tonight in Cincinnati.

Starting point is 00:08:59 We will continue the conversation, and it's hard to get off the defense because that's really where this story is for this team right now coming up next. Today's show is brought to by LinkedIn Jobs. LinkedIn Jobs is where you need to go. If you're looking to hire for your business, small business, big business, maybe an NFL team, LinkedIn Jobs has the tools to help you find the right professionals for your team faster and for free. LinkedIn isn't just a job board. LinkedIn helps you hire professionals that you can't

Starting point is 00:09:29 find anywhere else, even those who aren't actively searching for a new job. It might be open to the perfect role in a given month. Over 70% of LinkedIn users don't visit other leading job sites. So if you're not looking on LinkedIn, you're looking in the wrong place. LinkedIn knows that small businesses are wearing so many hats and might not have the time or resources to hire, which is why you've got to get the LinkedIn jobs. It's going to make it so much easier. You can post your job for free. at LinkedIn.com slash locked on NFL. That's LinkedIn.com slash locked on NFL to post your job for free terms and conditions apply. The Bengals had one opportunity late in this game on defense.

Starting point is 00:10:10 Well, two, I suppose. One, Jermaine Pratt forces a fumble. Great individual play to punch a ball out. Ball even is in his hands for a second as it falls to the ground out out of the hands of Zach Hertz, I believe. And then the Bengals don't fall on the ball. They also get a sack from Trey Henderson after a false start penalty to set up a second in, I believe, 21. The commanders throw a screen and multiple Bengals missed Diami Brown at the line of scrimmage. He picks up five yards.

Starting point is 00:10:40 And eventually they get enough on the third downplay to convert on fourth down. And so it's a number of issues, right? It's not just that the defensive line is bereft of talent outside of Trey Hendrickson. Frederick Johnson should get more snaps at this point than perhaps any of the other edges not named Trey Hendrickson on this team. The defensive line is down to street free agents. Lawrence Guy was fine tonight. And guys that were on the bubble of the roster going into training camp and Chris Jenkins, who played a limited number of snaps today and was fine.

Starting point is 00:11:11 But not good enough. And so you have these talent issues on the defensive line, whereas Trey Hendrickson and some guys. And then you have other guys that are a little bit better, but, getting beat deep in opportunities to make plays where Gino Stone and Camp Taylor Brick gets split on a go route by Terry McLaren. And neither of them can stay over the top of that ball. And then on a later play on a fourth down,

Starting point is 00:11:37 Dax Hill bites on a double move. And Jane Daniels makes an incredible throw right as he's getting crushed by Gino Stone to ice the game. So you have these talent deficiencies on the inside. You got guys getting beat outside because Jay Daniels has too much time for the most part and built confidence early in the game.

Starting point is 00:11:53 And then you have this tackling issue that came back. And we thought it was mostly taking care of it, was better against the Chiefs. It wasn't the biggest issue against the Chiefs. And now it's back and they're missing numerous tackles at or behind the line of scrimmage again or just not in position, not trusting other players on the defense to do their job.

Starting point is 00:12:13 And as a result, being out of position to do their own job on plays. Really everything that could go wrong went around. went wrong for this defense, I would say, tonight. Yeah, that's fair. I mean, even when there was a really good play in the red zone where Mike Hilton comes up, cuts down Brian Robinson inside the one. It gives you a chance. Yeah, neutral zone infraction, Jermaine Pratt.

Starting point is 00:12:36 Like, that was the type of night. Like, even when the veteran that's been there, done, that rises up, they make the play that you're talking about, or that I talked about a few minutes ago, that we expect this defense to make, where it's like, oh, yeah, they're on their heels, they're on their heels, they'll answer. And that felt like an answer moment. And then it's like, actually, it's a penalty.

Starting point is 00:12:58 And Brian Robinson coasted in, you and I could have scored on the very next play. I mean, he was untouched. He didn't get touched until his teammates got to him to celebrate the touchdown. And that's, that's it. And I think you bring up a good point, too, early is what matters. The good start, and they started well on offense, you go get seven. and then if you force jaden daniels three now you force jane daniels you make him feel you even if they do go get points you make him feel you well then that confidence might not be through the roof but it was early and and that's

Starting point is 00:13:36 what makes it tough when when it's it's through the roof early and and they've scored back-to-back touchdowns you have the brian robinson touchdown then the austin eclere touchdown you're making plays in the passing game for your jane nors like all right i like this monday night football thing i like the fact that the bengal's crowd is booing their team because they can't stop me let's keep it up and and he did in early when you're facing a young quarterback their early stages at the game that's when you want to get to him and they didn't and they they they couldn't at any point obviously but man if they could have done something early i think it would have gone a long way to get him out of rhythm And instead he was in rhythm, and it really just felt like, you're right.

Starting point is 00:14:20 Anything that could have went wrong for the Bengals did. I mean, Daxhill had a heck of a year, right? Two plus games where I thought he was playing really, really well. And then he gives up that play, where it's just a dagger. It's just a dagger and crazy play, awesome play. But that's a got to have it play. Got to get off the field play. And they didn't.

Starting point is 00:14:40 And they had a few of those today. And it's rough because literally just, just one of those. One of those fourth downs, I think the commanders, they finish what, four for four on third, on fourth down? Three for three for three. Yeah, I was getting ahead of myself because that touchdown counts for a couple. I mean, the Bengals outgain the commanders. That's what's crazy too. The average gain per play, but the commander's three for three in the red zone, five for nine on third down, three for three on fourth down, do the math there. That means there was one time that they had to settle for a field goal because they were eight of nine.

Starting point is 00:15:16 on third and or fourth down. And that's not the recipe that anyone would paint. But you're right, like rushing yards-wise, if you would have said the commanders only run for 108, it's like, oh, well, the Bengals had a lead early. They weren't control of the game, and they forced Daniels to pass it. And I guess they did technically have a lead early,

Starting point is 00:15:37 but they didn't keep them for long. And it wasn't just the defense either. The special teams, too, giving up that return to Austin Echler to start the second half is brutal. I don't know why you're not just kicking it into the end zone in the first place, where your defense has been struggling, you're trying to give them five more yards to work with by getting a good special teams play.

Starting point is 00:15:57 Instead, you give up a huge return, and then Washington only has to go 33 yards. You also have to credit Washington, and again, be harsh on the Bengals defense for how long they had the ball. They outpossessed the Bengals in this game. When it looked like the Bengals were going to answer, and they hit Jamar Chase for that second touchdown and the officials were blind to another pass interference call that could have benefited the Bengals on the two-point conversion try. And that's blatant, but not the reason they lost the game. That took them a minute and 48 seconds ago, 70 yards. Washington comes out

Starting point is 00:16:30 and runs 12 plays, seven minutes and 32 seconds off the clock, and at that point, you need an onside kick to win if you're the Bengals. If instead, they can get a stop after 1st and 15, or after first and 15, or after second and 20, or on fourth and four, or on third and seven, maybe you have a shot. But they didn't get the stop.

Starting point is 00:16:52 And I don't see where the help is coming from. And that's the scary thing. They can get BJ Hill back, they can get Sheldon Rankin's back. Those will help a little bit. It should help. They'll get Miles Murphy back. That should help.

Starting point is 00:17:05 But when you can't stop, rookie head coach, with a rookie quarterback, and I know Dan Quinn's been a head coach elsewhere. In Cliff Kingsbury's offense, a single time. Literally cannot stop them. How much can a few players make a difference? How much of this is on Luana Rumo at this point? Could Louana Rumo have called something different at different times in this game

Starting point is 00:17:31 or were his hands tied by his personnel and the way they had to commit more to trying to stop the run that opened up the passing game so much for Jane Daniels. Could they have blitzmore? Could they have disguised better? Could they have gotten themselves into position on early downs to do some of those exotic things on late downs? Those will be questions for film review and questions that many Bengals fans are asking tonight.

Starting point is 00:17:54 The obvious thing to me, though, was the inability to get pressure on a consistent basis that led to Jane Daniels, tearing the Bengals up through the air whenever he needed to. Yeah, he completed passes to eight different players. A different player spreads the ball around, and Terry McLaurin was lost in this offense the first couple of weeks, gets going. Luke McCaffrey, someone we talked about pre-draft, had a couple nice plays. But it was just a mixture.

Starting point is 00:18:21 Zachard's a couple of catches on third down to extend drives, or a fourth down to extend drives. Noah Brown, who had a big game against the Bengals last year, had a couple of nice catches. You mentioned Austin Eccler. The Diomi-My Brown play, I know Gino Stone blew him up, but he turns that into something. Like, that matters. Those things matter when you're like that five yards. It's the difference between turn manageable and not. Like in that was it.

Starting point is 00:18:47 It was the commander's always got those extra couple of yards to make it that much easier to convert. And it's it is crazy. Let's get to the offense some and the unfortunate injury. And up next, you can read it too. One of us is going to read Joe Burroughs stat line. And this is a stat line that if you would have told me coming in tonight that Joe Burrow puts up, I would have put a lot. I would have put Jake Liscoll's life savings on the Bengals winning the game.

Starting point is 00:19:19 So we will do that. Thank goodness I didn't. Fandall would be a lot richer. But we will do that coming up next. This episode is brought to by Fandall. And NFL fans, you can start the season with a big return on Fandall. It's America's number one sports book. And look, I get it.

Starting point is 00:19:38 You're feeling down about the Bengals. what happened on Monday night, but you need to get the Fandall right now. Get in on the action. Download the Fandall app or visit Fandall.com and get started today. You can, in the middle of a game, check out the latest stats, a live play-by-play in the Fandle app, and guess what? You can also place your bets right there. Fandle is convenient.

Starting point is 00:20:03 It is easy. There's a reason it's America's number one sports book. So whether you want to look at the Bengals Futures, when it comes to, the week four and Andy Dalton and the Panthers or you want to look at the rest of the NFL week four slate. Fandwell is the place to go and right now you're going to get started with $200 in bonus bets guaranteed when you place your first $5 bet. That's $200 in bonus bets. All you have to do is go to fandle.com and place a $5 bet. Again, that's fandle.com. Joe Burrow was awesome in this game. Jane Daniels was also awesome in this game,

Starting point is 00:20:40 but that doesn't take away from what the Bengals offense did. The Bengals' offense wasn't perfect. They were perfect. They actually would have won the game, despite what the defense did. But Joe Burrow finishes 29 of 38 for 324, 8.5 yards per attempt, three touchdowns, only takes two sacks, one of which is on the play where Trent Brown is injured. And it doesn't sound good for Trent Brown, sending him our best wishes, is he could not put weight on that right leg in the middle of a play and went down.

Starting point is 00:21:10 That was one of the two sacks Joe Burrow took. one on an inside move that his replacement of Marius Mims, who got into the game, it was mostly good, gave up. But Joe Burrow was great in this game. The Bengals' offense was, for the most part, great in this game. What we thought they would be in this game against what I thought was the worst defense in the league until I saw what the Bengals did to make. Yeah, that's fair. Look, 33 points. I had them at 31. And so they get to 33, even with the miss field goal by Evan. And obviously that's one you have to have.

Starting point is 00:21:45 You didn't get it. And that's it. That's the only possession the Bengals didn't score on. That's got to be enough. That has to be. Joe Bro, 29 of 38, 324 yards, 76.3% completion percentage. Sat twice for 12 yards. No turnovers, three touchdowns.

Starting point is 00:22:04 It's Jamartase for a 41-yard touchdown and a 31-yard touchdown. finds Andre Yosevosh on a fourth down for a touchdown. Like, say it out loud. Look at all those things I just said. Oh, let's go to the ground game too. Everyone's like, oh, run the ball. 6.2 yards per attempt. Chase Brown was awesome with his seven attempts,

Starting point is 00:22:23 8.9 yards of pop. I thought Zach Moss was really good today. 58 yards, nearly 5 yards of carry, another 39 yards on the ground in a touchdown. Like, all of those things should result in a win. and yet they didn't and it's that's what's crazy is like and I think that's

Starting point is 00:22:42 after the game Joe was searching a bit and you could tell like he's processing it and talking and he's being very open about like his his headspace and I think he's like man I just

Starting point is 00:22:55 and I don't think he feels this like thinks this way because he's he's a team guy of course and he's mad that they lost but he's like we just played really really well on offense what what do we need to do to win? Like what button needs to be pushed for this team to get over the hump and be the team that they think they can be?

Starting point is 00:23:14 And I think that'll be the question he's asking over the next day and a half until we hear from him on Wednesday. They have three close losses this year that could, if you wanted to argue, come down to just a handful of plays here or there. Obviously, in week one, if they can make one more play and we talked about all the plays they didn't make in week one against the Patriots, they could have won that game against the chief. They had a controversial DPI call, but again, they make one more play there.

Starting point is 00:23:42 They win that game. And here, you can almost make that argument, too, to a different degree, if they get one more stop on defense, which would be one more than zero. So one, they could win the game. If they turn their red zone possessions into touchdowns instead of field goals, they can win the game. if McPherson makes his field goal and they get the DPI call or T. Higgins just catches the ball when he's being interfered with on the two-point play, maybe the game goes differently. But it feels different in this one because of the way things went on defense,

Starting point is 00:24:18 where even though the offense was good, it's hard to imagine any team winning when they get that kind of defensive effort. And that's why you sit here and while the blame clearly is squarely on the defense, you can actually nitpick the offense a little bit. Like Mike Keseki, you kind of need that catch when your defense can't stop a slight breeze. You need that catch. It's a hard catch.

Starting point is 00:24:45 You need to make that catch. Jamar Chase, Joe Burrow, you need to connect on that third down instead of settling for a field goal in the red zone. Yeah, Jamar's got a catch. Jamar should have caught that, by the way. Yeah, and Jamar needs to catch it. And by the way, I think it was kind of design, and I'm not defending Joe, but he didn't want.

Starting point is 00:25:03 Joe Jamar to get crushed and I think he was throwing low maybe not that low on purpose but I think he wanted to throw a low so Jumar just settled in and got the first. Yoshi needs to be on the same page with Joe Burrow a little bit more often and sit down when Joe needs him to sit down Joe needs to hit Zach Moss in the flat to make that a shorter third down before that play to March he mentioned that he thought it could be a first down potentially to Zach Moss 100 he could have been oh yeah he just missed a throw or maybe Moss was backpedaling and it was weird or something. But yeah, it's a throw that Burrow needs to make.

Starting point is 00:25:38 But these are nitpicks, right? You scored 33 points. And that's with a two-point conversion, and that's with a misfield goal. You very well could have had 38 points in this game like the commanders did. And so the blame squarely on the defensive side of the ball, it's just nitpicks on offense. In general, very encouraged by the offensive performance. They got to a ton of different things, which I thought was really cool. Very personnel diverse.

Starting point is 00:26:01 Yep. very formation diverse, a lot of motion. They found ways to take advantage of when they got bliss and they got those one-on-ones. Joe looked as comfortable and is in control as he's looked all year. And this is all what we expected. And that's great that they did what we expected on offenses, as you said, even exceeded our expectations on offense. Every drive is scoring drive.

Starting point is 00:26:23 But it's hard to feel much about that when you feel the way you do about the defense and the way that I feel about the prospect of the defense figuring out a way forward. And it's hard to find those answers right now on this team. Yeah, it is because the defense has been good at times, and then the offense can't deliver. You go to Arrowhead and you're just a play short at the end, whether it's offense or defense. And then today it is what it is where one unit is just much better than the other.

Starting point is 00:27:00 they have to put it together. And we'll get into this as the week goes on. Like as crazy as O&3 is, you could easily see the path still. But that path is really, it's getting farther and farther away. Like now you have to go through an obstacle course around twirly, swirly land of gumdrops like Elf did, and make it to New York. like if you're going to do that and you're going to get to where the Bengals hope to get to.

Starting point is 00:27:33 And I think that's, again, the reality that Joe was facing. And I'll have more on this. I'm still processing it. But, and I tweeted this out. Like, Joe and Zach didn't go into the locker room. They went into a different room and directly in there and had a private conversation. Zach didn't want to touch it. Joe talked about it some.

Starting point is 00:27:56 And I think that's, he said it was a mutual. thing that they needed to do. And so I think they are searching a bit. And Joe probably views it as, yeah, man, we start as slow, but we should have won these past two games. We should be two and one with wins over the chiefs and commanders. And

Starting point is 00:28:12 instead, they're 0 and 3. And he's never been 0 and 3 in anything in his life, except maybe ping pong on an off day. And I think that's probably unlikely. It's frustrating to use a word that the Bengals use a lot in the locker room that fans are going to

Starting point is 00:28:28 a lot because they're all close games. They're all games that they could have won. They should have won. You can make an easy argument that they're the better team. But when you lose all the games and you do that every week, you can't make that argument anymore because good teams find ways to win those games. And in an 0 and 3 hole, you're right. You can see the path forward, but they've lost two games in their early schedule that

Starting point is 00:28:52 looked like more than winnable games, heavily favored in both of those games, heavily favored at Open against Carolina. We'll see what that line does throughout the week as Vegas loses confidence in this team. But as John Breach points out, only four teams over the past 40 years have made the playoffs after an 0-and-3 start, the 92 Chargers, 95 Lions, 98 bills,

Starting point is 00:29:15 and 2018 Texans. That is a difficult, difficult hole to climb your way out of. Typically, those teams don't have good, good, units anywhere. The Bengals, I think, have a good offense here. And they showed today that they can be a really good team on the offensive side of the ball. But if they don't get anything from their defense and their offense can't even get onto the field

Starting point is 00:29:45 and needs to score in a minute in 30 seconds to just have a shot at an onside kick at the end of the game, that's not good enough. That's a bad team. And if this is going to be a team that isn't a bad team, The defense needs to turn it around in a hurry. And like I said, James, it's hard for me to see where those answers and solutions are coming from within the building. Yeah, we'll have to figure it out, discuss it. And obviously the Bengals have a lot to figure out.

Starting point is 00:30:12 I think there are layers to this in much like Burrough, much like the Bengals and how they process the next day or two. We'll be able to do the same. And don't bail on us, Bengals fans. don't bail on the Bengals, of course, but definitely don't bail on locked on beggles. Hang around because you never know. I would say this. If there's one dude that I wouldn't bet against, it's Joe,

Starting point is 00:30:38 but you know what you can't do? You can't go on for it because then everyone's betting against you because you're not getting out of that hole. So, yeah, but we can dive into all those numbers. But stick with us, hit that subscribe button on YouTube and follow wherever you get your podcast if you're new, or if you're one of those fans that likes, listening after a loss.

Starting point is 00:30:58 I think they're rare. I feel like our fans aren't going to love this one. The people that are still here at this point, we appreciate you very much for listening to this episode of the Lockdown Bengals podcast. We will not miss a beat here. We'll be back. We'll be doing our thing covering this team,

Starting point is 00:31:14 bringing you the insight you need, and trying to figure out where they go from here. And it's a short week. They've got to move past this quickly. No off days this week. So until next time, Thanks for listening to this episode of the Lockdown Bengals podcast and have a good one.

Locked On Bengals - Daily Podcast On The Cincinnati Bengals - Cincinnati Bengals' nightmarish defensive performance has them 0-3 and looking for answers

There aren't comments yet for this episode. Click on any sentence in the transcript to leave a comment.