The Bengals Still Have TOO MANY Holes IF They’re Done Adding in Free Agency

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🗓️ 16 March 2026

⏱️ 32 minutes

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We've reached that point in free agency where we're getting reports that the Bengals are done with significant additions in free agency, and that's scary news. Jake Liscow and James Rapien break down why it's so disappointing - especially if Cincinnati doesn't get ANY more deals done in a free agency period Joe Burrow called "paramount". We take a look at some of the players they've signed around this in past years as there are still some small moves that could help.

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0:00.0	We've reached that point in the free agency process where we have our first report that indicates the Bengals might be done.
0:07.6	Are they done? Really? The Bengals, done? Adding talent and free agency? Let's get into it.
0:18.2	You are Locked-on Bengals, your daily Cincinnati Bengals podcast.
0:23.5	Part of the Locked-on Podcast Network, your team every day.
0:28.9	Well-up, Bengals fans, and welcome to another episode of the Lockdown Bengals Podcast.
0:32.2	Part of the Lockdown Podcast Network, your team every day, and the number one sports podcast network in the land.
0:37.5	He's James Rapine.
0:38.4	I'm Jake Liscoe.
0:39.2	We're your host of the Lockdown Bengals podcast covering your Cincinnati Bengals every day going
0:43.1	all the way back to 2016.
0:45.1	And we sure have seen this team do some stuff in that time.
0:50.2	We would have liked to have seen them do more stuff over the last week as there's a report
0:55.9	from The Athletics Paul Dana Jr. that says the Bengals are done making big additions.
1:01.5	And if you listen to all the way to the end of the show yesterday, you heard where I think
1:05.6	they're at in terms of how they see their cap, how they see their cash budget, why those things
1:10.5	make sense.
1:11.6	They haven't changed the way they do business as far as restructuring any contracts ever.
1:17.3	They still have never done it.
1:19.1	If there was ever going to be a time, it was Joe Burrow this year with all of the pressure
1:22.6	that was heaped onto this offseason.
1:24.9	And the way we started yesterday's show was by praising the guys that they
1:29.3	did add. We like the signings they made. But if this is indeed it, we just spent an entire show,
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