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What up Bengals, Dan, and welcome to another episode of the Lockdown Bengals Podcast.

I'm your host, Jake Lisko. He's your host, James James Rapine today, as I mentioned, joined by Trevor Sikima from

Poe Football Focus formerly of the Draft Network. And when you were there, you were working

with Lockdown as well with Ben Solac, doing draft stuff for years. We're going to dive into

some draft content today. Thanks for listening

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free and available everywhere you get your podcast. Trevor, let's talk Bengals' offseason approach.

I want to talk about the draft at a high level, but yesterday when we were looking at some

different ways of Bengals could go about approaching their a high level, but yesterday when we were looking at some different ways

the Bengals could go about approaching their offensive line problem, it occurred to me that

last year, the Bengals had their heart set on Jackson Carmen in the second round.

They traded out of the pick that turned into Christian Barmore, which is why I want to

start before the draft, because in my opinion, if the Bengals have been a little bit more

aggressive perhaps in free agency before the draft, maybe there's an opportunity for them to

sit there and pick a Christian Barmore BPA kind of pick where New England trades up and goes

and gets him. So if you're Duke Tobin, Trevor, are you thinking I'm drafting an offensive lineman at 31?

Or are you thinking maybe I can do enough in free agency right now to get myself into a BPA position,

picking later in the draft that I'm used to?

Well, I think that, you know, when you look at full offseason strategies, right?

Because I think a lot of people ask,

hey, what's the draft strategy? And they ask it around January and February because the season's

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