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Welcome into the Locked-on Bengals podcast.

I'm James Rupin.

Thank you for tuning in today.

A lot to get to and react to follow on iTunes Audio boom.com on Twitter at James Rapine at

Lockdown Bengals.

Man, oh man, you're going to hear from Tyler Boyd today.

And I do think this is interesting because I want to start with a general Bengals conversation.

Today's show, because a lot of people at least nationally

and we've heard and I could put someone on nationally that has their opinion but the odds are you've

seen it and I know Stephen A. Smith has came out and said something. I know there's been opinion

pieces about this so I'm just going to come out. If you want to read those and find those,

I'm sure you either have or you will. But here's the thing. The Bengals draft of Joe Mixon. And this is more a

Bengals conversation than it is a Joe Mixing conversation. It seems like national media looks

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