I'm James Rupin and welcome in to the Lockdown Bengals podcast on a Friday coming to you from the interview room at Paul Brown Stadium.

Sorry for the echo.

I know it's not studio quality, but it is going to have to do for now a lot to get to on today's show.

You're going to hear from Tyler Eifer today on his health. He talked with the

media today. You're going to hear every bit of it. Plus, Jeff Driscoll. I think Jeff Driscoll, Matt

Barkley, I think that's interesting. I talked one-on-one with him. I talked one-on-one with

Nick Vigil, who is going to be a big part of this defense, at least for the first four

weeks of the season, maybe even farther than that.

So a lot to get to today.

I want to start with Tyler Eifford.

But first, follow on Twitter.

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And at LockdownBengals.com right now, you have a complete recap of day one, a bunch of video.

You have video of John Ross, two different angles of his 50-yard touchdown catch from Andy Dalton.

And I will say this about

Andy Dalton. I know I'm known as the Andy Dalton hater. I've nicknamed him Glandy Dalton for a reason.

You look pretty good yesterday. Deep Ball was working. Josh Malone looked good yesterday. I wrote about him

at locked on Bengals.com. And it'll be interesting to see, I don't want to get ahead of myself, but I will say

this. It will be interesting to see if Brandon LaFelle is around come week one. Because if

Josh Malone and Tyler Boyd and John Ross and A.J. Green are all around and impressing. And then

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