Joe Burrow PRAISES Veteran Leadership From Key Defensive Additions

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🗓️ 19 May 2026

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Every time Joe Burrow has given an interview since the Bengals traded for Dexter Lawrence, he has expressed his approval for the front office making big-time moves in a window-like mindset. Monday he lauded Lawrence and Bryan Cook's immediate locker room impact as leaders, so James Rapien and Jake Liscow dissect what stood out to Burrow after an offseason of speculation from national media talk shows about his happiness in Cincinnati. Plus, Tee Higgins is now in attendance for the Bengals' offseason program, so the guys discuss expectations for Higgins in 2026.

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0:00.0	Another quote from Joe Burrow, another instance in him being thrilled with the additions of Brian Cook, Dexter Lawrence, Jonathan Allen.
0:09.6	Let's break it down.
0:16.2	You are Locked-on Bengals, your daily Cincinnati Bengals podcast.
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0:26.9	What up, Bengals fans, and welcome to another episode of the Locked-on Bengals podcast.
0:30.5	He's James Rapine. I'm Jake.
0:31.5	Let's go.
0:32.0	And T. Higgins has showed up for the Bengals off-season program, which I think makes
0:37.0	Jamar Chase the only notable
0:38.6	absence at this point. And with T arriving, we're going to talk a little bit later in the show
0:43.8	about what expectations should be for T. Higgins this year after he continued to put up good
0:49.6	numbers in a Joe Burrow-led offense without Joe Burrow last year. We're going to finish the show there.
0:55.0	But Joe Burrow talked to Jeff Hobson of Bengals.com
0:57.7	and he's back in the building, been around for a couple of weeks now
1:01.7	and is expected to talk to the media sometime in the near future.
1:07.5	And he, once again, for the third straight week, I want to say, James, has been asked about
1:14.4	things that the Bengals have done and the off season and all these things. And once again,
1:19.6	has tripled down, quadrupled down. I don't know how many times he's done it at this point on
1:26.3	support for and appreciation for the way the Bengals
1:30.1	front office went about this off season and praise for the additions and how they fit into
1:34.7	the locker room. For sure. And I think the thing that there's a few things certainly that stand
1:40.7	out about this round of quotes to Jeff Hobson. And like you said, we'll hear
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