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

It's your Wednesday, hump day edition of the Lockdown Bengals podcast. I'm your host, Jake Liskgo, along with your host, James Rupin, and boy, do we have some good news to share and talk about, I'm sure you've all heard the news by now. And that is about Joe Burroughs recovery.

We'll go there first.

And ESPN, all the national outlets, of course, today with this news talking about the Bengals a little bit and a recurring narrative that comes up over and over this offseason

and continues to, even after the draft, which I guess is a little surprising to me,

is that the Bengals are comfortable with their offensive line from last year,

is a narrative that I heard today from an ESPN program.

We'll talk about that and why the narratives are what they are around the Bengals.

And the work that I personally, James, really wish some of these national

analysts would do because you and I both have a national football show at this point.

We both talk about the entire NFL at large.

And so I feel like we can actually provide a lens to this as people that both cover a team

very locally and cover the NFL on the whole.

So we'll go there in part two.

And then for part three of the show, some news and notes.

The Bengals are doing some on field work.

We'll talk about what's going on in Paul Brown Stadium this week before OTAs start next week.

But James, the headline, Joe Burrow, expected to be ready for week one, according to his doctor, Dr. Neil

Ella Trash of Curlin Joby in Los Angeles.

The surgeon who did his knee surgery had a very positive update when he talked to Adam

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