What up and welcome in to the Locked-on Bengals podcast?

I'm James Rfeen.

It is great to be with you.

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Had a great night last night with some even better people

check it out on instagram or Twitter photo myself dan hort Tony pike moeager Jim

Kelly Steve wolf it was great it was great man I'm blessed I'm feeling blessed today

with the people everybody that's reached out.

I mean, I've had listeners from Australia reach out that listen to Locked-on Bengals

and just wanted to thank me for talking about the Bengals.

I mean, that's a pretty, you know you have an awesome job and you're blessed when that's the case.

When you've gotten to talk about your hometown team for as many years as I have.

And look, Locked on Bengals is staying.

I will be in Cleveland still doing this podcast for the rest of this season.

And I plan on doing it very, very well at a very high level.

And I'm not going to stop talking about the Bengals because now, and I think this is safe to say,

now I can be more of a Bengals fan that I'm not covering the team once that happens.

So if you follow on Twitter at James Rappeen or at Locked on Bengals, never fear.

There will still be plenty of Bengals conversation.

And speaking of that, let's dive into it today. Did you watch the Monday night football

game yesterday? That's the new NFL. That's the new normal. Now, those teams are

essentially on steroids, right? That's the new normal exaggerated. That's the new normal

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