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What up Bengals fans and welcome to another episode of the Lockdown Bengals podcast.

It's postseason time. I jake liscoe one of your

host your other host james rupine here with me it's the first episode of the podcast for the off

season and it's mock draft monday as we record this episode james are you ready for this off season

it was a pretty busy day of hurry up and wait for a lot of Bengals fans on Monday as we were refreshing Twitter. You were talking to your sources.

And it was a trickle rather than, you know, a damn breaking of news.

In typical Bengals fashion, they're a little slow to the party, a little late to the party.

I promise news is coming down.

But yeah, the only news of the day on Monday, Zach's back, which is something I think we all

expected.

The statement is the part from the statement from Mike Brown.

I think some took issue with and rightfully so,

but the overall news of Zach Taylor being back.

I don't think that's surprised you, me, or really anyone at this stage.

No, Zach Taylor being back makes total sense.

I liked Moe Eggers piece over the athletic.

He did.

He talks about, you know, Mike kind of throwing it at the fans you

guys wanted Marvin gone and and he has a he has a line in the statement that Mike brown did the fans

made clear that they wanted change and we found change we found a young mind and we're bullish on

his future that is a bold take and were bullish on his future. That is a bold take, I think, bullish on Taylor's future.

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