SAFETY UPGRADE! Bengals Add Bryan Cook to Solidify Secondary

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🗓️ 9 March 2026

⏱️ 14 minutes

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The Cincinnati Bengals hit the safety position hard in the opening hours of free agency, signing Bryan Cook to a 3-year deal to solidify their defensive backfield. Jake Liscow and James Rapien break down why Cook is such a great fit (TACKLING) with the Bengals as Cincinnati is starting their free agency with a bang to return a Bearcat to Cincinnati.

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0:00.0	It took a few hours, but the Cincinnati Bengals have made their first splash into free agency,
0:06.0	bringing in a top safety.
0:07.9	Brian Cook, back to Cincinnati.
0:15.9	You are locked on Bengals, your daily Cincinnati Bengals podcast.
0:21.3	Part of the Locked onon Bengals, your daily Cincinnati Bengals podcast. Part of the Locked-on Podcast Network, your team every day.
0:26.6	What up, Bengals fans, and welcome to another episode of the Lockdown Bengals podcast, part of the Lockdown Podcast Network, your team every day and the number one sports podcast network in the land.
0:36.2	He's James Rapine. I'm Jake Liscoe, and today we are here
0:38.9	to talk to you about the Bengals making a signing on day one of the legal negotiating period as the
0:46.4	new league year is just around the corner and free agency is underway. They make a splash. They go
0:51.3	get a starting safety. They finally spend some real money at the position,
0:55.0	James Rupin. And while the everydayers knew that we will be doing multiple episodes today,
1:00.4	if they've been listening to us, this will be our first foray into covering the Bengals
1:05.1	making some moves to acquire talent. And they bring a Cincinnati bearcat back to Cincinnati to play for the Cincinnati
1:12.8	Bengals as you've got your UC Bearcats hat on James and he was our consensus top safety
1:18.6	in our free agent tier sheet with that you, me, Joe Goodberry, Mike Santagga put together.
1:23.8	We all had him ranked as the top safety this year. And the Bengals strike and get the
1:29.5	deal done with Cook four years, just, sorry, three years, just over 40 million dollars for Brian
1:35.9	Cook to come play safety for the Cincinnati Bengals. Yeah, huge, huge. I literally just got a text
1:42.2	from someone in the building like, hey, did you see the news?
1:46.0	Because that person knew, as I was looking down, if you were watching on YouTube, I was looking down at that message because obviously everything is fluid this time of year.
1:54.4	And I made it very clear, very known. And I'm not a big like, oh, well, you got to have the bear cat guy. Like,
2:01.3	how many times did we actually talk about Kobe Bryant? Not many. I didn't lose any sleep when he
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