Joe Burrow thinks this is the most talented the Cincinnati Bengals have been in his NFL career.

Is that true? Let's get into it.

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Part of the Locked-on Podcast podcast network your team every day what up bangles fans and welcome to another episode of the lockdown bengals podcast he's james with me up jane up jake let's go we are your host of the lockdown bengals podcast your daily Cincinnati bengals podcast and today we're going to dive into the conversation as to whether or not Joe Burrow is correct.

That's right.

Is Joe Burrow correct about this being the best, the most talented, I should say, roster in the Joe Burrow era in Cincinnati.

And there are a couple different ways you could approach this question.

As we were talking about it before we started recording James,

we were, I think, immediately thinking about it a little bit differently,

because since Joe Burrow said this in May,

I was thinking about where we thought the rosters were around this

time of year in previous years. Like coming off the Super Bowl run in 2021, we thought, yeah,

they're going to be right back in that competition in 2022. And they were, in fact, right back

in that competition in 2022. And going into

2023, they lost Jesse Bates, but coming off of two straight eight AFC championship games,

that was still what we thought this team should be doing. And obviously, it didn't go that way.

Joe Burrow had an injury. Things went off the rails after that. 2024 was the further degradation of the defense and things went off the rails.

But in this episode, we're going to unpack this claim from Joe Burrow that this is a most talented roster in his time in Cincinnati and discuss the competitors and why it may or may not be the most talented roster that he's

been a part of. Look, here's the path to being the most talented roster. One, he plays like the

guy that he's envisioning himself being, which is a 50 touchdown passer. I think that's the first thing.

When you compare any of these teams, and really we're comparing 21 through 23,

no one's going to say 2020, and 2024 clearly wasn't good enough.

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