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Hello, Bengals fans, and welcome to an episode of the Locked on Bengals podcast.

I'm your host, Jake Liskow, and I come to you today on a very difficult day

in which the Bengals have suffered a catastrophic injury to their starting quarterback,

their rookie, their leader for the future, Joe Burrow. We're going to spend a majority of

today's episode talking about Joe Burrow, talking about his rookie season,

talking about what this means for the franchise going forward. I'll be joined by my co-host,

James Rapine for segments two and three of the show, as always on Game Day. But today will be a

somber episode. Today is a difficult day for Bengals fans. Today is a difficult day for me. I'm sure it's a

difficult day for everyone listening to me, but we will try to get through this together. And as Joe

Burroughs said, you can't get rid of him that easy. He'll see us next year. And right now, I think

that that is a great mentality. Before we get into what happened on this Sunday, let's just all take a moment

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