The Locked on Bengals podcast. I'm James Rupin. Great to have you in on a Tuesday, a little later

than normal, filled in on ESPN, 1530 in Cincinnati today. As always, on Twitter, at James

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But Joe Goodberry joined me today on ESPN 1530, and I don't want to bug Joe twice to have him on both this show or this podcast along with my radio show. So it's a conversation. If you haven't heard, I figured I'd play it for you here on the podcast. And I caught up with Joe, asked him about a variety of things. But the first one being Tyler Eifert, because I think

they should keep him around.

I think Tyler Eifert should be here next season and incentive-laden contract.

And I asked Joe, what's the biggest difference when he watches the film between Eifert and

backups like Tyler Croft and C.J. Usama.

Yes, there is a big difference.

The biggest thing, and, you know, if people have maybe a

recently in their minds, Tyler, I. Effort was a shell

of himself this year. He never looked as quick as normal. He never looked

as agile. He wasn't getting open. I mean, it didn't last

long, but he was on air pretty quickly.

It's been almost three years since we've seen a fully healthy Tyler Iper, 2015, and

that was a fantastic year.

In that year, he was a red zone threat, a target, a guy you can use consistently down

there.

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