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What up Bengals fans and welcome to another episode of the Locked on Bengals podcast, James Rap, Jake Liskow, joined today by Mike Santagida.

James is dancing again. He must be feeling a little bit better today. We're on the Lockdown

podcast network, your team every day. Thanks for making us your first listen. We've got Mike here

with us as we have all year to go back through the tail of the tape.

And Mike, where this starts is the offensive line.

And it was something that at any point could have reared its head in the playoffs.

And with something that we said, the problem with the offensive line, they've been winning with the offensive line,

and bugger whatever his name is for ESPN McFarland, is it?

It says you can't win when you get sacks 70 times in the season.

The Bengals are really close to doing it.

But what it does, they can win.

They did win.

It makes it harder to win when you're taking three and a half sacks a game.

It makes it harder to envision running it back. It makes just everything harder.

And it made it harder for the Bengals to run offense. One of the points that I made is that I don't

think they're really running the offense they want to run right now because take the last play

of the game for example

Joe Burrow can't even finish a one step drop pack like he kind of hops into it and looks

to throw and Eradonald's already there when you watch the game plan from an exes and

O's perspective how much did the offensive line affect what the Bengals tried to do on

offense?

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