Welcome into the Lockdown Bengles podcast.

I'm James Irpene.

I hope you had a wonderful extended weekend.

I missed you because I meant to be with you Friday and then I couldn't.

It didn't work out.

And well, then we had the weekend and it was a holiday weekend.

And I wanted to take a second here on the Lockdown Bengals podcast to thank each and every one of our service members, including the ones who have died for our freedom.

Obviously, that's what Memorial Day is all about. And I hope you and yours enjoyed the extended off time.

Hopefully you had extended off time. Obviously, clearly I did. I'm a big slack. I didn't do a

podcast Friday or yesterday, but I'm with you today, a lot to get to. If you're new to the podcast,

well, it's simple. We cover the Bengals each and every weekday here on the Locked-on Bengals podcast.

My name's James Rapine. I cover the team for ESPN 1530 and 700 WLW in Cincinnati.

On today's show, you're going to hear from offensive linemen Trey Hopkins on the new

offensive line coach Frank Pollock on battling for a starting job and so much more.

And you're also going to hear from star cornerback William Jackson III.

I just got out of the Bengals locker room about a half hour ago.

Both of those interviews coming your way today. Plus, the Good Morning Football Team on NFL

Network has good things to say about Andy Dalton. So let's dive right into it. Let's start with an interview.

Let's start with out of those three things, I think you'd want to hear from William Jacksonson the third the most he's a star caught up with him earlier today i think he's a

star and uh i caught up with william jackson the third earlier today and we talked about the

off season what he's done to improve his body the difference between o's and training camp

and so much more here's's my conversation with Bengals,

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