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Locked On Bengals - Daily Podcast On The Cincinnati Bengals

Grading Bengals Free Agency: Did They Do Enough on Defense?

Locked On Bengals - Daily Podcast On The Cincinnati Bengals

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🗓️ 17 March 2026

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

The Cincinnati Bengals signed three good players in free agency, but it's the things they didn't do that loom large when it's time for free agency report cards. Jake Liscow and James Rapien grade the Bengals free agency period that saw Bryan Cook, Boye Mafe, and Jonathan Allen added to the roster. And while the guys like each of those moves, the whiff at linebacker drags the Bengals' GPA down.

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0:00.0

The Cincinnati Bengals had a three good players to their defense, and we like that.

0:04.4

But what they didn't do is going to impact the way we grade this free agency period.

0:09.8

It's time.

0:11.0

Let's get those report cards out.

0:18.2

You are Locked on Bengals, your daily Cincinnati Bengals podcast.

0:23.4

Part of the Locked-on Podcast Network, your team every day.

0:28.7

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

0:32.2

Part of the Lockdown Podcast Network, your team every day in the number one sports

0:36.3

podcast network in the land.

0:38.0

He's James Rapine.

0:38.8

I'm Jake Luscoe.

0:39.6

We're your host of the Lockdown Bengals podcast covering your Cincinnati Bengals going all the way

0:44.2

back to 2016, which makes us your best place to get all the news, all the analysis,

0:49.6

all the information you ever could have possibly dreamed to know about your Cincinnati Bengals.

0:56.5

And we're midweek now, week two of free agency.

1:01.9

Yesterday we talked about the moves that could still be made, the moves that still should be

1:06.9

made, and the history of the Bengals making a few moves around this time in free agency

1:12.2

the last few years. But with reports that the Bengals are mostly done with the cap situation

1:17.7

being what it is, where I have them at around $7 million after getting those Josh Allen,

1:22.4

or sorry, Jonathan Allen contract details revealed to us us on Tuesday, assuming that the big deals are done,

1:33.9

and there aren't a whole lot out there to be made anymore anyway, besides the one-year bounty hunter

1:40.1

ties that we would like to see the Bengals get in on. We'll get into grading free agency and talk about

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