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

I'm your host, Jake Liskow, along with your host, James Rupin.

Today we're joined by Sincy Jungle's John Shearan.

John, we're looking for a bit of a different perspective as we're just going to try to

take a look ahead and get a feel for a consensus expectation for the Bengals offseason.

Obviously, Jeff Hobson thinks one thing,

and Paul Dana thinks another thing, and James and I are somewhere else. And then we've got

you who I think your opinion is consistent. I would say that. Your takes on the team and what you expect the team to do,

I think are consistent over time.

Every time for me is something that's,

oh, this is something that seems new.

I feel like it's always you in my mentions that says,

no, we've known this for a while.

And then you point to the evidence that's been out there, right?

And most recently is the Rishan Slater thing.

I just, I just, I just, I just appreciate your, your empirically grounded historical opinion.

So let's start with Bengals, free agents, Carl Lawson, William Jackson, the two most notable.

I think at this point, everyone that seems to know anything about the offseason plans for

this team thinks McKenzie Alexander's is not in the team's plans to bring him back.

William Jackson a little bit more divisive, but certainly leaning toward him not coming back.

And Carl Lawson, I think the team would like to bring him back.

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