Cincinnati Bengals Can Start To Prove Themselves vs Cleveland Browns in Battle Of Ohio

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🗓️ 4 September 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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The Cincinnati Bengals have their first chance to prove their doubters wrong in their Week 1 road trip to Cleveland. Jake Liscow and James Rapien break down the strength-on-strength and weakness-on-weakness matchups that matter, including how the Joe Burrow and the offensive line will deal with Myles Garrett. We'll start getting answers about Al Golden's defense that should stand up against a Browns offense expected to be among the worst in the NFL, and that could provide insight into the Bengals' Super Bowl viability in 2025.

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0:00.0	It's time for football that counts for the Cincinnati Bengals and time for us to start getting answers to questions we've been asking all preseason. Let's get into it.
0:10.0	You are Locked on Bengals, your daily Cincinnati Bengals podcast, part of the Locked-on Podcast Network,
0:23.7	your team every day.
0:26.5	What up, Bengals fans, and welcome to another episode of the Lockdown Bengals podcast.
0:30.6	Part of the Lockdown Podcast Network, your team every day.
0:34.1	I'm Jake Liskow, he's James Rapineine and we're your host of the Lockdown Bengals podcast
0:37.7	covering your Cincinnati Bengals here on Lockdown Bengals since 2016. So if you're looking for
0:43.7	that one-stop shop for all the Bengals news, analysis, game coverage, film breakdowns, anything
0:50.6	you can imagine, you're in the right place. And we appreciate all the
0:54.2	everydayers out there, all of you who make us your first listen. Today, we dive into the
0:58.7	matchups, the matter of the questions that we're looking to get answered and the litmus test,
1:03.0	the barometer reading that we will get for the Cincinnati Bengals as they travel to face
1:07.6	the Cleveland Browns in Week 1 action, James. And to me, there are so many fascinating aspects to this game
1:15.7	that largely features a strength-on-strength matchup
1:19.2	and a weakness-on-weakness-matchup from a big pitcher perspective,
1:23.1	from an on-paper perspective, as let's not get a twisted.
1:27.3	The Browns are seen by most, and I think rightly so,
1:29.8	to be one of the worst teams in the NFL,
1:31.9	especially on the offensive side of the ball.
1:33.9	But they're not bereft of talent on defense.
1:36.7	So from that perspective, given what we think about
1:40.0	where the Bengals strengths and weaknesses are,
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