Wildcard Weekend Affirms Bengals' Need To Find PLAYMAKERS

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🗓️ 12 January 2026

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Duke Tobin made clear on Friday that closing games was one of his biggest issues with the Cincinnati Bengals 2025 season, and Wildcard Weekend games made him look prescient. Tobin has plenty of work to do if they're going to get to the playoffs next season. Jake Liscow and James Rapien reflect on the need to finish games, how it applies to the playoffs and why adding talent is just half of the equation. They need talent and execution to come together in critical moments.

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0:00.0	Duke Tobin spent a lot of time on Friday talking about finishing games and then Wild Card Weekend gave us a firsthand look at how important that is.
0:08.8	Let's tie it all together.
0:15.6	You are Locked-on Bengals, your daily Cincinnati Bengals podcast, part of the Locked On Podcast Network,
0:23.5	your team every day.
0:26.4	What up Bengals fans and welcome to another episode of the Lockdown Bengals podcast, part of
0:30.6	the Locked on Podcast Network, now the number one sports podcast network in the land.
0:36.3	He's James Rapine.
0:37.1	I'm Jake Liscoe. We've been locked on
0:39.2	Bengals here with you since 2016, bringing you daily coverage of your Cincinnati Bengals.
0:45.4	And we're in off-season mode. We're in analysis mode. Wildcard weekend is maybe by the time
0:50.5	you're listening to this completed at the time we're recording this, we're still waiting to
0:53.7	watch the Houston Texans play against the Pittsburgh Steelers.
0:57.1	But a lot of these games over Wild Card weekend coming down to the wire with game-winning
1:03.0	drives late in the fourth quarter, which immediately invoked to me, James, the Duke Tobin press
1:10.7	conference many times throughout this wildcard
1:13.6	weekend and the need to finish games better than the Bengals did in 2025, in 2024,
1:22.5	and really since 2022.
1:25.7	That's what we're going to get into for today's show before we take a look at
1:28.9	what could be happening with AFC North coaches in Cleveland and Pittsburgh and what's going on
1:35.7	with them pitcher's future potentially given what's developed in those coaching markets.
1:41.9	As we welcome back in all of the everydayers,
1:44.5	all of you who make lockdown Bengals your first list.
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