Bengals win UGLY, but a win is a win! | Defense Makes Winning Plays as Offense STRUGGLES

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🗓️ 7 September 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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17-16 is a win! Despite Joe Burrow, Ja'Marr Chase, and the Bengals offense sputtering in the second half, the defense made enough plays and luck was on Cincinnati's side as they escape Cleveland with a win. Jake Liscow and James Rapien break down what we can actually take away from another weird Bengals Week 1, including expectations that the offense will figure it out, and encouraging signs from the run defense and pass rush against a poor Browns' offense. There's always room to improve, but it's nice to have to do it at 1-0 instead of 0-1!

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0:00.0	The Cincinnati Bengals have survived week one with a win.
0:04.6	It took some luck to get there, but it's better to be lucky than good.
0:14.0	You are locked on Bengals, your daily Cincinnati Bengals podcast.
0:19.1	Part of the Locked on on podcast network your team every day
0:23.6	what up Bengals fans and welcome to another episode of the lockdown Bengals podcast part of the
0:28.8	lockdown podcast network your team every day I'm Jake Liskgo he's James Rapine and we're your host of
0:33.5	the lockdown Bengals podcast collectively covering your Cincinnati Bengals here on Locked on Bengals since 2016.
0:41.1	That's a long time, James, and haven't seen a whole lot of games quite like this one.
0:45.8	That's the beauty of football.
0:46.8	We always get something a little bit different as the Bengals squeak out of winning Cleveland.
0:50.2	We'll break down what we can actually take away from a game that eventually got to a place, James,
0:55.9	where I would say it got into Week 1 weirdness territory.
0:59.4	Thanks to all of you who make Lockdown Bengals your first listen.
1:02.1	Thanks to all of you who are every dayers out there.
1:05.0	We appreciate all of you that have those great listening habits here on Lockdown Bengals.
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1:14.0	You'll save $20 on your first purchase of tickets.
1:18.1	Better to be lucky than good, James?
1:19.5	What do you think?
1:20.0	Is that a thing that we're going to be saying a lot while we're talking about this week one game?
1:25.0	Probably.
1:26.0	Or ugly wins are better than pretty losses is one that I would certainly throw out
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