Welcome to Locked on NFL, your daily podcast on the National Football League on the number one daily sports

podcast network. My usual co-host Matt Williamson on vacation this week, we've had a ton of

really great guest hosts from around the network. And Thursday, no different. The host of

on Bengals, James Rapine, is my guest host today.

So excited to get into some Cincinnati Bengals conversation, of course.

But it's also the franchise tag deadline for players to sign long-term contracts.

So we'll get into the players who did and did not sign new deals Wednesday.

You can find me on Twitter at BD Peacock. James, you can find at James Rapine on Twitter. You can find also his work, not only locked on Bengals, but he covers

the Bengals on all bangles.com for Sports Illustrated. James, how are you, sir? I'm well, Brian. Thanks

for having me. Yeah, I'm excited. It's having a lot of fun this week. James, how are you, sir? I'm well, Brian. Thanks for having me.

Yeah, I'm excited. It's having a lot of fun this week. I can't convey that I'm having

too much fun because I know Williamson is somewhere listening with his toes in the sand on the

beach, but he's having a great time. I'm sure he's okay with me talking to some co-hosts this week,

and I have had a good time talking to everybody. And today's a big one because that franchise tag deadline came and went Wednesday.

And the big one, and we've talked about it a lot here on the show, was Dak Prescott did not

sign a new contract. A number of franchise tagged players didn't sign new deals.

There was one big one that did,

but I want to get back here to Dak Prescott and start there. What are your thoughts on

Dak? Apparently, he was being offered in the $33 million range and maybe there were some

last minute texts from the Cowboys and Stephen Jones. Like, hey, you up? And Dak was like, yeah, I'm done, man. I'm not answering

anymore. And apparently leading up for a few weeks, there was no conversation in the day of right

before they send some texts. And I don't know what that's going to do to try to get a deal done.

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