With all signs pointing to Al Golden for Bengals Defensive Coordinator, did they search hard enough for their next DC?

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🗓️ 21 January 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Are the Cincinnati Bengals making the right move with Al Golden for defensive coordinator? Maybe, it's nearly impossible to predict! But many Bengals fans reasonably have criticized the team for its process in landing on Golden in not casting a wide enough net for candidates. Jake Liscow and James Rapien break down the pros and cons to Zac Taylor's approach for this DC hire, and discuss why Notre Dame's defensive performance in last night's national championship game shouldn't change your opinion about Golden's prospects in the NFL.

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0:00.0	Zach Taylor will meet with Al Golden on Wednesday to talk about the Bengals defensive coordinator job, but that seems like it's all but Golden's. Let's break it down.
0:10.0	You are Locked on Bengals, your daily Cincinnati Bengals podcast.
0:25.3	Part of the Locked-on Podcast Network, your team every day.
0:30.6	What up, Bengals fans, and welcome to another episode of the Locked-on Bengals podcast.
0:32.2	I'm your host, Jake Liskow.
0:34.1	He's your host, James Rupin.
0:40.3	We are Locked-on Bengals on the Lockdown Podcast Network covering your team every day.
0:43.9	We're on YouTube. We're everywhere you get your podcast. And if you're new to the show,
0:49.9	you can hit subscribe to make sure you don't miss an episode. Yesterday, we spent a whole lot of time talking about Scott Peters. And we'll circle back to Scott Peters at the end of today's episode with the additional information that we've uncovered about the Bengals new offensive line coach and a little bit more about his background, a little bit more of what we've learned.
1:01.0	Since the hire was announced and we immediately recorded the previous episode of Lockdown Bengals and of course the national championship game of college football in the books.
1:10.6	Everyone watched
1:11.5	Al Golden's defense against Ohio State. Many reactions were, surely, they can't hire this guy.
1:18.9	So that we have talked about. We'll cover again. And it sounds like this will be formalized,
1:25.1	very likely in the immediate future here. but probably not on Tuesday as we record this episode, James.
1:33.0	And we have an idea of what's to come for Al Golden and the DC interview for the Bengals.
1:40.5	Yeah, I was so shocked when national media on Monday night announced that the Bengals were interested in Al Golden and that the national media said, Zach Taylor has paused the search.
1:51.6	I was so surprised that that happened just for Al Gold.
1:56.1	No, I'm just kidding.
1:56.8	Our everyday is obviously not surprised.
1:59.0	As far as the timeline, shout out to Paul Dayner Jr.
2:01.4	He was the first on this.
2:02.6	Al Gold is going to be in town Wednesday, maybe late Tuesday night.
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