What up and welcome in to another edition of the Locked-on Bengals podcast on a Thursday?

I'm James Rupin.

It is great to be with you, recording from the lovely confines of my downtown Cleveland apartment

where the Bengals.

I'm less than a mile away from where the Bengals are set to play the Browns in 48 hours.

I'm James Rupin.

It's great to be with you. If you're new to the podcast, this is the only daily Bengals podcast out there on Twitter at James Urpene and

at Locked on Bengals. Subscribe on iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, Stitcher, the IHeartRadio app,

and wherever you get your podcast. We're going to get to a voicemail later in the show today that I thought

was really interesting. We'll get the Joey's voicemail coming up. You're going to hear from

Joe Mixen in about 30 seconds. And I will give you a prediction for Sunday's game. Man, if only,

if only, Tyler Boyd, we're playing. But let's start with leadership.

Because this Bengals team really hasn't had a leader since Andrew Whitworth signed with the Rams after the 2016 season. Andrew Whitworth left, and there was been no real guy who could come in

and be the vocal leader.

Last year it was A.J. McCarran when people like me were criticizing Andy Dalton and saying,

well, maybe A.J. McCarran should get an opportunity after the Bengals 0 and 3 start.

You know what A.J. did? He came out, spoke out and said, yeah, no, Andy's the guy. He's the leader of this team.

And since then, there really hasn't been that.

A.J. Green's not really vocal.

He leads more by example.

Gino Atkins doesn't talk to the media at all.

Andy Dalton just isn't that guy.

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