This is the Locked-on Bengals podcast on a Friday. I'm James Erpene. It is great to have you in.

If you're new to the podcast, well, just a little bit about me. I'm James Rupin. I work in Cincinnati

for ESPN 15-30-700 WLW, and I'm in the Bengals locker room every week. We do this podcast daily,

and it's to peel back

the curtain and give you a sense and idea of what it's like, give you an in-depth look at Bengals

football, different perspective, a unique perspective. From all I know, or as far as I know,

we are the only daily Bengals podcast out there, and just a look ahead of the offseason, I can't wait.

There's going to be a ton on-tap draft coverage.

Who the Bengals next head coach is going to be and so much more.

But let's talk about Sunday.

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we're close to that 600 mark 580 let's see if we can get there before the new year it's

great to have you in uh this will be a shorter podcast today but i want to discuss a few things

i think it's important before we look ahead. We look to Sunday,

not past Sunday. We look at Sunday for what it is, the final game of the Marvin Lewis era.

And for all of the bad that the past two years have brought, a total of 12 wins after having a 12 and 4 record in 2015. I'm going to

think back on Marvin Lewis and remember the pre-Marvin days. I remember the days when the Jacksonville

Jaguars would roll the Bengals by 45 points, when they would hold them to seven points, yeah, that was 99.

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