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

I'm your host, Jake L Liskow along with your host

James Rupin. We're brought to you today by BiltBar. Go to BiltBar.com and use promo code

Lock 15 to get 15% off your next order. We've got updates from a rookie minicap today to talk about

James. I know you were there on Friday watching the

rookies in action. We've got some write-ups and some press conferences that followed that day

of practice as well, including notes on Deontay Smith, Jackson Carmen, et cetera, et cetera.

So we'll start there with rookie minicamp.

Then we'll take a look at some of the analytic nerds, quote unquote, that do schedule

analysis have broken down the Bengals and every NFL schedule by travel distance advantages

as well as rest advantages,

and the Bengals come out very, very positively in both of those metrics.

So we'll go into that analysis a little bit.

We'll wrap up with somebody asked me the question on Twitter, James.

Big storyline is obviously Joe Burroughs recovery this offseason, and I agree with that.

But have we given enough attention to what are the expectations for Lou Anarumo's defense

after the massive financial investments that the Bengals have made on that side of the ball

in the last couple of years to try to get it right and get

lose guys in there. So we'll wrap up the show with a little bit of opining, some columnist

opinion sort of podcasting to wrap things up. But we'll start with mini camp, James. You were down

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