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

I'm Jake Liskow, one of your hosts, along with James Rapine.

The other one of your host, you can find us on Twitter at Jake underscore NFL and at James

Rapine.

Follow us there and follow at Lockdown Bengals to stay in the loop for all things going on with this podcast.

For today's show, we're joined by Marcus Mosher from Lockdown Cowboys, and we spend 20 minutes

talking actually not about Andy Dalton, about everything except Andy Dalton, in fact. And that

will be in part three of this show, including at the very end, a fun question about the

matchups to look forward to, and a reason that the game might be closer than Vegas thinks,

with the Cowboys being favored by five points despite the game being in Cincinnati.

Before we get there, though, I did promise that we would get James on the record for his

draft grades.

We know that Joe, before his retirement, gave this draft an A.

I gave this draft a B plus, I think.

Maybe an A minus.

I can't remember, actually.

Now that I try to reflect on it, I'm sure our listeners know better than I do what I said.

Easy graders.

I tried to be a little bit harder on it than Joe, knocking them for not getting an offensive

lineman.

But when you get a franchise quarterback, it's hard to, even if that's expected, when you get a franchise quarterback, it's hard to go much lower because that's so important in so many ways.

Anyway, that's my rationale. This isn't about

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