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

I'm your host, Jake, let's go along with your host, James Rupin.

And James, today as we record on Tuesday, this was the final open OTA practice of the offseason period.

Now, we do have mini camp next week, which will be three days, all of which will be open to the media is my understanding.

So we're excited for that three days of practices that we get eyewitness reports about.

But as OTAs wrap up this week, this is the final day of the optional activities.

You got to go down to the practice fields and watch.

I heard there were a good number of fans outside,

but maybe nobody on the bridge today. So no rogue videographers up there or anything.

How was the final day of open OTAs? I got to start with this. Thank goodness for in-person OTAs.

I thought back and I was talking to Paul Dainer Jr.

Before practice officially started while the players were stretching and I was like, yeah,

OTAs, huh?

Just joking.

And he was like, yeah, it beats being at home.

And I was like, it certainly beats last year.

And I think we are all grateful that, you know, the Bengals are out there on the field. But it was

one, it was good weather. I was worried that it was going to be kind of rainy or maybe they'd have

to practice inside, but the weather held off. And look, it seems like each week Joe Burrow does

more and more and more. And if the OTAs, if there's one theme, if there was one thing we

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