Duke Talbotan was very pleased with the Bengals draft, but the way he's talking about the

Bengals spending situation might mean they're done with significant spending.

Let's get into it.

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What up, Bengals fans, and welcome to another episode of the Lockdown Bengals podcast.

He's James Rapine. I'm Jake Liscoe.

We are your host of the Lockdown Bengals podcast covering your Cincinnati Bengals daily for years and years

and years and years. We've been covering this team for a long time and excited to do it after

what was a fun draft weekend back with you. And Duke Tobin has met with the media for about a 40

minute presser following the Bengals draft. He had a lot to say

about where the Bengals are in terms of spending and limits and challenges and where they've put

all this money into the team and acknowledging that the locker room doesn't care and all

these things. They just want the best team out there. Talked about how free agency went and the Dexter Lawrence edition and the draft itself

was asked about the linebacker position, of course. And I think that linebacker position is a question

that's looming large for a lot of Bengals fans, James. And we will talk about that for sure in this episode. But one of the things that

really stood out was the perhaps change tone about a potential Joe Burrow restructure

from Duke Tobin and the conversation around the restructure for Joe Burroughs contract

and the possibility of

freeing up some cap space by using that avenue, the conversation around Miles Murphy

and the fifth year option for Miles Murphy. Those stood out a little bit to me, James, as I was

listening to Duke Tobin on Monday. Yeah, the spending theme was very, very clear in are they done spending?

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