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Inside the Dexter Lawrence Trade: Bengals Assistant GM Opens Up About Defensive Overhaul

Locked On Bengals - Daily Podcast On The Cincinnati Bengals

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🗓️ 29 April 2026

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

The Cincinnati Bengals made major moves to upgrade their defense in the 2026 offseason, and Assistant General Manager Mike Potts joins the show to take you behind the scenes of the Dexter Lawrence trade, how excited the team is about their new-look defensive line, and how they were approaching the linebacker position despite making no additions, so far. Jake Liscow and James Rapien discuss those topics and the surprising availability of Cashius Howell with the Bengals' assistant GM.

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0:00.0

Bengals assistant general manager Mike Potts joins us to break down the Dexter Lawrence trade linebacker priority and much more about the Bengals off season.

0:13.0

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

0:20.0

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

0:24.9

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

0:28.6

He's James Rapine.

0:29.4

I'm Jake Liscoe.

0:30.3

We're your host of Lockdown Bengals, your daily Cincinnati Bengals podcast.

0:35.0

And today we're joined for the first of two episodes with Mike Potts,

0:40.1

the Bengals Assistant General Manager, formerly Director of College Scouting. So obviously,

0:45.1

a little bit more involved with the draft side of things, at least historically. And now

0:52.1

with that promotion to Assistant general manager potentially some more

0:55.1

responsibilities for Mr. Potts and well James we talked in today about Dexter Lawrence and how

1:00.9

that trade came together what the vision was for Lawrence the linebacker question comes up and

1:06.3

heck we even talk about the consensus topic that is all the rage right now.

1:12.7

It was a fun one to start with Mike Potts.

1:17.9

And then tomorrow we'll get to all of the draft picks and get Pots's thoughts on each individual pick and some questions that we have from watching the tape.

1:21.2

Yeah, really excited to talk to Mike and dive into linebacker, which we'll do later on today's

1:27.2

show. Did the Bengals just completely punt on linebacker, which we'll do later on today's show.

1:27.8

Did the Bengals just completely punt on linebacker like some of you think?

1:33.6

I'm going to ask him that.

1:34.9

But first we got to start with sexy Dexie, the Bengals adding Dexter Lawrence.

1:40.7

And that's where our conversation with Mike Potts begins.

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