What up Bengals fans and welcome to another episode of the Locked On Bengals podcast.

I'm Jake Lisko, one of your hosts, along with James Rapine.

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Today, Bengals fans, I'm going to spend the first five minutes of the show here talking

about the linebacker room.

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Inspired by bengals.com in their first interview with Al Golden, the Bengals new linebacker coach.

There are some interesting tidbits in here, some fun little takeaways.

And I think it's worth highlighting the first conversation we've heard with Al Golden

and the incredible attention the Bengals gave to a position of need

really making a thorough attack to improve the position. After that, we've got a special edition

of the mail bag and that is going to be a little bit different than what you're used to.

So stick around and be sure to let me know what you think of this alternative format

to the mailbag coming your way in about five to seven minutes.

We're going to get started though with the linebacker conversation.

Josh Bines has played 101 games in the NFL. That is eight more than the rest of

the Bengals linebackers put together, and that includes Jordan Evans' 45 games played in the NFL.

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