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

great to be with you. I hope you had a wonderful Christmas and a wonderful holiday. It is great to be

back. It is great to talk to you, a ton to get to Joe Goodberry of the Athletic on the show tomorrow.

A quick reminder, we're the only daily Bengals podcast out there.

So yes, we took a couple days off for the holiday, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day,

back out of today, back with you the rest of the week. And let's dive into it here.

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James Rapine and at Locked on Bengals. By the way, real quick before we dive into it, I know I tweet

about Cleveland. It's part of my job now, but we're also at Locked on Bengals, which is all Bengals

stuff. And I know I showed Baker Mayfield some love, but you do not, do not have to blame that on Cleveland because regardless

of whether or not I moved to Cleveland for my new job at 92-3, the fan I say new because it's

three weeks old. Regardless, guess who I was a fan of during the draft, pre-draft, guess who I was a

fan of when he came in on Thursday night football and led the Browns to the first win in over 18 months?

Guess who was the guy hyping up Baker Mayfield first overall?

I was.

So regardless if I'm in Cincinnati, if I'm in Cleveland, if I'm in Jupiter, it doesn't matter.

I'm still going to give you my opinions.

And that's why I want you to listen to this podcast, because you're going to get me

completely 100% honest with you.

My complete 100% honest take, it doesn't matter if I'm by the lake, if I'm in Cincinnati

at the Queen City by the Ohio River, it doesn't matter where I'm at.

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