Many Bengals fans are witnessing the worst defense they have ever seen the Bengals field.

Who's at blame?

Whose fault is this?

Let's break it down.

You are Locked-on Bengals, your daily Cincinnati Bengals podcast.

Part of the Locked-on Podcast Network, your team every day.

Well, not Bengals fans.

Welcome to another episode of the Locked-on Bengals podcast, part of the Locked-on Podcast Network,

your team every day.

I'm Jake Liscoe.

He is James Rapine, and we've been covering the Cincinnati

Bengals here on Lockdown Bengals since 2016. I've been following and covering the Cincinnati

Bengals much longer than that. And today that is more relevant than ever because we're going to be

talking about a historically bad Bengals defense, how they got here and what needs to change. There's going to be several bits

of Bengals history that are going to come up in this episode of Lockdown Bengals as we get

through the blame game as the Bengals defense is dooming yet another season and somehow is worse

so far than what we saw from this unit in 2024.

And doing what they did against the Jets means there's no signs of it getting better.

Because like we said in yesterday's episode, that Jets defense offense, one of the worst,

if not the worst in the NFL coming in to the game.

Welcome back to the everydayers who caught that postgame show.

Welcome back to everyone who makes a lockdown Bengals your first listen.

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