What up and welcome into another edition of the Locked-on Bengals podcast.

Happy Monday to you.

I'm James Rupin.

It is great to be with you in what is the final week of me hosting the Lockdown

Bengals podcast.

As always, you can subscribe on iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, Stitcher, the Iheart radio app.

There will be a replacement.

There will be someone filling uh the void here

as i uh continue to make my way um up and in and get myself uh acclimated to cleveland and i'll be

launching a podcast there stay tuned for details on that but uh yeah i just uh excited because, look, you're still going to get the daily

Bengals content. This is the final week of the Bengals podcast. I'm hoping that they can get a coaching

hire done this week. So we'll see if that happens. I certainly hope so, because I'd love to talk

about the Bengals new coach. We'll do that on today's show. We'll also talk about the NFL playoffs a bit and how the Bengals can relate.

But let's dive into it because the coaching search is something that, you know,

there are a bunch of teams in the NFL that are all over right now.

I mean, all over.

There's eight vacancies, I believe. You're hearing Bruce

Ariens in Tampa Bay. You're hearing Josh McDaniels in Green Bay. You're hearing all these different

names in Cleveland. Arizona is bringing in different candidates. And it's a lot, right? It is a lot

to keep up with. I mean, the coaching searches, no one's hired a coach yet. It's a lot, right? It is a lot to keep up with. I mean, the coaching searches, no one's

hired a coach yet. It feels like Bruce Ariens could get that job in Tampa Bay if he wants it.

And I'm just thinking, and obviously, those of you listen to the podcast know I'm joking

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