The Cincinnati Bengals were active early in free agency with moves that mostly raised the floor of the team for 2025.

But where are the impact signings? Have they done enough early? Let's break you down.

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What up Bengals fans and welcome to another episode of the Lockdown Bengals podcast.

I'm your host, Jake Liskgoe he's your host james rippin

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get your podcast it's about 750 p m as free agency opened for negotiations not officially earlier

today and we've got a bunch of moves to talk about

here, James. But for the everydayers, you knew this was coming. If you're new to the show,

we'll have you covered all week here on lockdown Bengals with all of the breaking Bengals news. And

I thought we would have had an emergency podcast by now, James, or at least something that forced us to

record earlier today. But instead, we've got a number of lower profile moves that I don't think in a vacuum,

any of them are bad moves per se, but I think a lot of fans are so frustrated with the lack of an

impact move, the lack of movement on T. Higgins, Jemar Chase, and T. Hendrickson, and the general, no top-end signing here.

And so I think we'll talk about all these moves individually,

but wanted to acknowledge that I was streaming all day,

eight hours of live streaming during this free agency process,

and a lot of fans are still pretty hot

with the way this thing started.

Sure.

Because if you make these moves and Jamar is signed,

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