Do the Cincinnati Bengals need a lottery ticket to be a real contender in 2025?

Let's break down to players who are long shots that can make a huge difference to this team.

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your first listen as well and just get into all those good habits. Today, James, we talk about

some of the long shots is a word that I used, but it's maybe not quite fair. Some of the less likely players to hit in a big way and really have big breakouts,

the quote-unquote lottery tickets.

This came from a question in our mailbag last week that really gave rise to an entire episode.

And when you think about lottery tickets, you think about the Cincinnati Bengals,

James, who comes in mind for you first? Well, this is what's interesting about it. It's like,

all right, well, lottery ticket, is it, how do we define that from a winning the lottery standpoint where's the the risk at like

where's the level to it and there are levels and there are a bunch of guys that fit this

like if dylan fairchild you look up and he's the next coming of Kevin Zitler and is playing at an above

average level this year, well, that may really transform what the Bengals can do offensively.

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