The schedule is out and the Bengals once again will be playing Baltimore in primetime.

It'll be pivotal.

It's late in the season.

Let's get into all of our reactions to this year's schedule.

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What up, Bengals fans, and welcome to another episode of the Locked-on Bengals podcast.

He's James Rapine.

I'm Jake Lisko, and the Cincinnati Bengals play a bunch of games at 1 p.m.

This season, we're going to get into everything going on with the Bengals play a bunch of games at 1 p.m. this season. We're going to get into everything

going on with the Bengals schedule, including the primetime standouts, complaints that I inevitably

will have. I said yesterday that I would have complaints, James Rapine, but they're not as many

as I thought there might be. I actually think it's a pretty favorable

schedule overall. There's some things I don't love and there's one thing that's quite glaring to me,

but we'll get into all of our reactions and thoughts on the way the opponents have landed on

the calendar and how that interacts with competitive fairness, something that I talked about

yesterday in terms of travel and short weeks and all of those fun things in today's episode

of the podcast. And James, when you looked at the schedule, you got to digest the whole thing.

I had a few things come to mind right away. What was the first couple of thoughts you had as you

took a look at the schedule? Well, I think the first thing you always look at is one home away

week one. And based on the red schedule, I thought they would be home. And they are home. And it's

against an uncommon opponent, pretty fun opponent in Tampa Bay like that. And then second thing I look at is,

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