Welcome into the Locked-on Bengals podcast on a Friday.

It's Friday!

So much to get to.

If you're new to Locked-on Bengals, I'm James Rapine.

This is the Locked-on Bengals podcast.

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What I try to do here on lockdown bengals is give you an in-depth inside look at the Cincinnati Bengals organization.

Jim Osarsky, cincinnati.com coming up in just a couple of minutes on the podcast.

But I wanted to take a second.

And I know it's not Thanksgiving, but it's still that time of year where you give thanks,

where you reflect, where you look at where you are, where you've come from, the stuff that

you've done, especially over the past year, with 2016 or 2017 rather winding down. And see, time flies. To me, this podcast has been great.

I mean, I love the interaction with the listeners. I love how you guys go at me on Twitter sometimes. You agree,

disagree? I totally. Like, I just wanted to let every single one of you know, thank you so much for

listening. Thank you so much for helping locked on bengals.com grow and clicking those links when I

post a story or an article or a podcast. It's, there are big things coming.

Like, that's one thing I can tell you.

And I hold myself to the same standard I hold the Bengals to.

So when I say, oh, they need to go get a free agent and they need to think bigger and championships. And here at Locked on Bengals, we're thinking bigger.

Expansion, ideas, different ways. And with this offseason looming,

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