Welcome in to the Locked-on Bengals podcast on a Monday. I'm James Erpene. Great to have you in

on Twitter at James Rapine at Lockdown Bengals coming up. Why trading up makes so much sense

for the Cincinnati Bengals in less than five weeks, less than five weeks away from the NFL

draft. Joe Goodberry will

join me this week as will Solomon Tentman. I'm going to have to get him on to talk about his

player evaluations that he's doing. His prospect spotlights for locked on bengals.com. We'll get to

that as well on today's podcast. I'm James Rupin. I cover the Bengals for ESPN 1530 and 700 WLW in Cincinnati,

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And that's where I want to start today's show, because Steve Herman, and I'm looking

at it here, locked on Bengals.com, he makes the case that it's time to say goodbye to Vantez

Perfect.

And he does so.

And I want you to check it out and read it and feel free to tweet Steve and call him dumb or crazy or tweet him and say you agree completely.

Either way, I think there could be an argument made both sides.

Totally understand it.

And when it comes to Vantes-Berfect for me, this is a guy that there's

no denying his talent. I've seen people call him a generational talent. He's not that. He's not

Ray Lewis, but he's a really, really, really good football player. A top linebacker in this game today when he's completely dialed in, dialed in as far

as in shape goes, dialed in as far as football goes and not the after the whistle type hits,

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