I'm James Rupin, and this is the Locked-on Bengals podcast.

Great to be with you a little later than normal.

It's all right, though.

Happy post-Hallowing day.

Hopefully you had a great day.

On today's podcast, Jay Morrison, of The Athletic coming up.

He joined me earlier today on ESPN 1530.

Plus, you're getting here from Phil Sims. And that's where we will start today.

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Thank you so much, by the way. It's been a great week of listens.

You guys are stepping up, and numbers are still very good, even though it's a biweek.

So keep that up.

You guys are the best.

Let's start with something I heard earlier today, this morning, actually, on the Bengals

Booth podcast with Dan Horde, Dave Lapham.

They talked with Phil Sims, and it's, this is interesting because the perception to me

of this Bengals team, you don't trust them.

Like the majority of fans do not trust this Bengals organization, and I totally understand it.

Same coach, same quarterback, same flaws in primetime, same flaws, can't beat the Steelers,

injury bug, clearly we're a young team as well.

So it's just a mixture of, I don't know if I'm going to buy in at five and three, and I don't blame you for that.

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