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I'm James Rupin on a Monday on Twitter.

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It is great to be with you today.

We have a lot to get to, including the news of the day out of Cleveland, how it impacts your Bengals plus the trade deadline.

And while it's time for all of us to come to a realization about the Bengals defense and what they have to do to win this season, it's great to be with you today at Lockedonbengals.com.

I've written about yesterday's 3734 win.

If you miss my postgame podcast, you should check it out.

It's on Locked bengals.com.

You can hear from multiple Bengals players, Marvin Lewis, et cetera.

But my postgame observations are certainly worth your time at locked on bengals.com.

Let's react to the news of the day.

Hugh Jackson fired.

Hugh Jackson let go.

He was 3 and 36, 336 and 1 as head coach of the Cleveland Browns. And it was historically bad. Awful. In my take, I'll give you 60 seconds on the Hugh Jackson era in Cleveland. I think he made a mistake when he went there. I thought when he took the job that if anyone could save the Browns, it was him.

No doubt about it.

I said that.

I said, if anyone could save the Browns, it's Hugh Jackson.

He goes 3.36 and 1, which is a good way to back me up there.

But in all seriousness, go back two years ago and look, when he got hired, three years ago, excuse me, they got rid of Carlos Dansby who ended up here.

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