The 2025 Cincinnati Bengals might have the WORST DEFENSE EVER | Bengals lose despite 42 points scored

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🗓️ 3 November 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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The Cincinnati Bengals defense is somehow still trending in the wrong direction and could finish the year as the worst defense in NFL history. Jake Liscow and James Rapien break down another embarrassing effort from the defense, and a loss that felt all too similar to 2024 despite an onside kick recovery, a kickoff return TD, and a blocked FG. Joe Flacco gutted through an AC joint sprain for another huge game highlighted by more Tee Higgins dominance, but it's all a footnote to a pathetic defense that couldn't stop anything the Bears wanted to do, from Kyle Monongai running the ball to Caleb Williams catching multiple successful passes.

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0:00.0	The 2025 Cincinnati Bengals defense legitimately has a good shot to go down as the worst defense in NFL history.
0:09.2	Let's break it down.
0:15.7	You are Locked-on Bengals, your daily Cincinnati Bengals podcast.
0:23.5	Part of the Locked-on Podcast Network, your daily Cincinnati Bengals podcast, part of the Locked-on Podcast Network,
0:25.5	your team every day.
0:30.2	One up Bengals fans, and welcome to another episode of the Lockdown Bengals podcast.
0:31.0	I'm Jake Liscoe.
0:35.9	He is James Rapine, and we are part of the Lockdown Podcast Network here on Lockdown Bengals, your team every day covering the Cincinnati
0:38.6	Bengals going back to 2016 through the lows and the highs, the Super Bowl run.
0:42.5	And whatever it is, we're seeing this year from a defense that is truly the worst
0:47.8	that I have ever seen the Cincinnati Bengals field and could go down as the worst all time,
0:53.8	if not one of the worst all time,
0:55.2	as things are still trending in the wrong direction, getting much worse after we thought
1:00.1	they might have found something approximating the bottom against a terrible Jets offense.
1:05.4	The Bengals lose.
1:06.3	They drop to three and six heading into their byweek.
1:08.8	They lose 47 to 42.
1:12.3	And Joe Flacco goes for 470 yards passing.
1:16.2	Doesn't matter.
1:17.4	Seven different receivers catch a ball for 20 plus yards.
1:20.2	Doesn't matter.
1:21.4	The Cincinnati Bengals defense, when they did get stops, had penalties that erase those stops.
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