What up and welcome in to another edition of the Locked-on Bengals podcast. I'm James Irpene.

It is great to be with you. Jeffrey Lloyd of Locked-on Browns coming up in just a few minutes.

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A lot to dive into with Jeff.

I talked to him all about 30 minutes ago, and we talked about a variety of topics.

Obviously, the Bengals where they're at Marvin Lewis's future, the Browns kind of surging.

Browns enter Sunday, 6-7-1, Bengals 6-8, but you couldn't feel and couldn't help but feel entirely different about the two teams, even though they have the same number of wins.

So we dive into that and so much more.

But one thing that I want to point out, and Jeff, when I was on with him last time, and we did this crossover, it was before the

Bengals and Browns matched up the first time.

And I took some heat because I praised the Browns, and I was very critical of the Bengals.

And he started off by giving me, I don't know about a compliment, but giving me credit.

And I want to say that it's just to me and this is what I take pride in

and I always will and I will continue to do so with Locked on Bengals. I of course I would love for

the Bengals to win and be a good team and make the playoffs of course that's absolutely would be

great one it would benefit the podcast too I grew up a Bengals fan.

But I'm not going to lie to you.

If I feel a certain way, I'm not going to fake it for the podcast.

And I didn't then, and I know some of you got mad at me about it.

But we start there and we dive into a bunch of other stuff.

So here's my conversation with Jeff Lloyd of Locked on Browns. James, I hate to say you called this when we got and sat down before Thanksgiving.

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