The Cincinnati Bengals have been, of course, eliminated from playoff contention, but there are some things we can take away from their performance against the Miami Dolphins.

Let's dive into what mattered as the Bengals put a beat down on Miami.

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What on, Bengals fans, and welcome to another episode of the Locked-on Bengals podcast,

part of the Locked-on Podcast Network, now the number one sports podcast network in the land.

I'm Jake.

Let's go join today by our resident film expert, Mike Santagga, a part of the Bengals Squad Show as well.

You can find Mike's work over on the squad show, which is supplementary content to the Locked-on Bengals podcast.

He's with Alex Frank and Art Valero in the post game shows.

You can find those live on YouTube after the game. And you can also find his work at

Bengalstalk.com where he does his film breakdowns alongside co-host of Lockdown Bengals,

James Rapine, on that fantastic website. A lot of great Bengals, James Rupin, on that fantastic website.

A lot of great Bengals coverage there.

Today we dive into the tape as the Bengals put a beatdown on Miami on the strength of a bunch

of takeaways and complimentary football in the second half.

And you got to be careful with games like this, right?

You don't want to take too much away from dead cat bounce performances

against really bad teams and meaningless games.

But we will try to distill the things that we can take away

and focus on what matters for this team going forward

as we dive into the film in Miami, Cincinnati from yesterday.

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