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

I'm your host, Jake, let's go.

He's your host, James Rapine. It is Steelers Week, as I mentioned. And did I say hate the Steelers or did I say talk about the Steelers game? I get those mixed up sometimes. We'll be well talk about what Mike Tomlin had to say in a Tuesday press conference. We'll talk about the upcoming Bengals game a little bit.

But first, James, I think after we thank our listeners for making us their first listen,

and apologies if you missed us on your Tuesday commute to work, we had some publication issues.

And hopefully those don't recur going forward.

We're going to talk about the NFL's decision to flex Kansas City and Patrick

Mahomes division matchup against the Denver Broncos into Sunday night football in two weeks

instead of upcoming rising star second year quarterbacks Justin Herbert and Joe Burrow competing

for a playoff spot into prime time on Sunday night next week.

Now, personally, I'm happy about this because it means we're not podcasting at 2 in the morning Eastern time.

But as a fan, I definitely feel some disappointment.

As a person who has enjoyed recently a prime time game in Paul Brown Stadium,

I'm a little bit disappointed.

That was a lot of fun.

So I'm disappointed for the fans and the players who I'm sure would have embraced it and looked forward to that.

But for the Bengals, there are some upsides, right?

The West Coast team playing early on a road trip east.

So you got that going.

James, what are your thoughts?

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