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Welcome in to the Locked on Bengals podcast.

I'm James Rapine.

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Bengals get off to a hot start today, only to lose to the Pittsburgh Steelers on Sunday.

And we're going to get into it a lot to get to a lot to discuss. 2420 was the final score.

Bengals were up at 1.20 to 6. They led it halftime 20 to 9. Couldn't get it done. Fans calling for Marvin Lewis's job. We'll get into that in so much more here in the next 10 minutes or so. Let's start here.

It starts with offense. It begins with offense and it ends with offense for this team. Since the

bi week, the defense has responded.

And the defense was such a worry going into the by week. Remember the tie in London? Everyone talked about the defense. It was the defense of Mike Nugent. That was the issue. Well, the defense

since then has responded and played well. Vantes Burfect playing out of his mind. The corners today, I thought,

played pretty well. Drey seemed shaky at times, but still, outside of the two penalties,

played well even though Pittsburgh tried him. And here's the thing, is the defense for being old

and slow was on the field a ton today. A ton.

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