Joe Burrow believed the Cincinnati Bengals are thorough.

I agree with him, but their coaches on the hot seat.

We'll talk about it here on Locked On NFL.

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locked on NFL starts now locked on podcast network your team every day welcome to the barbershop here

on NFL I'm Tony Wiggins and he's Chris Carter from Locked on Steelers who joins me each and every

Thursday and here's what we got for you today. We're going to end this show talking about

AJ Brown coming to Duval, right where I am every single day. Right in the middle of the show,

two boats is better than one in debate. Maybe so. We're going to start talking about thorough

Joe Burrow though. He thinks the Bengals are really, really good.

They might be, but their coach better be good or he's going to be gone.

Let's park it right there in the AFC North with my man, Chris Carter from Locked-on Steelers.

Chris, this is a big year for Cincinnati.

And when I started looking at what the Bengals actually have,

Dexter Lars is like the best defensive player that they've had on this team since I can

remember and since Joe Burrell has been in the league. And I like Boy Maffa and I like some of

the additions with the secondary. I criticize them a lot, man, but their all season has been pretty

fascinating. It has been. It's shown you, their commitment to say, hey, we're actually going to compete. We're not just going to ignore the defense. We're going to try to win with multiple ways. And I think it's good for them. But like you said, that does put pressure on Zach Taylor right now because you can't use the excuse that you didn't have talent on defense because

now you got Mafei, you got Lawrence, you got Allen, you get you have a first round picking Miles Murphy, another first round picking Shamar Stewart, you know, they've been, like you said, they've been added to the secondary. This is the time where they got a strike. And they also, they've invested in this offensive line, first round pick of Marius Mims. They brought in Dalton Rizner, he stuck it stuck around.

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