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is in. The Cincinnati Bingals have made

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a selection in the twenty twenty four
NFL Draft. Alongside Lockdown College Football host

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Spencer McLaughlin, I'm t nitri Vitis
and we are joined by Deck Lisco of

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Lockdown Bengals to break down the Bengals
selecting Amarus Mems with the number eighteen Pickser

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Jake Joe Burrow has been one of
maybe the most banged up, beat up

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qbs in the league over the last
couple of seasons, So how important was

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it for the Bengals to send help
for Joe Cool? The Bengals were looking

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for help offensive tackle today and the
way that the draft went with four off

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the board. We were kind of
holding our breath as a pick approach,

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looking at Bira Murphy and Amarus Mems
as the top two options as far as

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what we thought the Bengals would do, and we saw a cliff after a

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Mariusmin's a tackle. So there's a
bit of a sense of relief for my

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perspective, at least when I'm thinking
about what would be best for Joe Burrow

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and the Bengals. I think there
is a drop off from Amarus Men's who

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will be a natural right tackle for
this team, and Troy Fatani who goes

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to the Pittsburgh Steelers a couple of
picks later, And so for me,

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I'm a fan of the pick.
It was our highest rated tackle still available,

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perhaps the last true first round offensive
tackle option, and they have options

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at tackle, Trent Brown being the
free agent acquisition that allows Amarius Men's to

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get some experience in the preseason and
take some time to develop if he needs

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it. He was very inexperienced at
Georgia, obviously missing a lot of time

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with injuries, so he has an
opportunity to learn a little bit before he

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needs to get onto the field.
But that combination of size and athletic traits

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is tantalizing for an offensive line in
Cincinnati that has never had that kind of

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upside in Joe Burrow's tenure. Now, like you said, limited experience,

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but also Amarus Mims was part of
arguably the best O line in the nation

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at Uga last season and really the
last couple of seasons. But when you

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see that in him, what do
you think having an experience like that with

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a program that focuses so much on
having good guys in the trenches, what

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can that help for Mems to bring
to the table. Well, it looks

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like he's already pretty good despite the
inexperience. There's not rawness to his game.

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There are some areas obviously that need
refinement. I think most tackles coming

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out of college need refinement, especially
that you pick at eighteen. But for

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a guy that hasn't played as much
as Amarius Men's, has missed time in

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college and didn't get those reps,
he looks very aware in past protection.

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He understands a lot of what defenses
are trying to do to him and trying

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to do to the protection scheme that
he's a part of as part of that

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unit in Georgia's front. So the
Bengals like to go to these big programs,

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they like to go to college football
playoff teams. They do that again

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with the Marius Men's where despite the
inexperience, what is on tape with a

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very impressive college football playoff game against
Ohio State in twenty twenty two for example,

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being part of that portfolio. For
mens there isn't necessarily the kind of

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rawness you would expect for a guy
that's played as little as Men's has played,

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and despite that, he still has
the upside. And so you compare

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him maybe to a guy like Tyler
Geyton, who has a lot of athletic

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traits, has great size and similar
level of inexperience. But to me,

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he looks like he needs more refinement
in terms of hand placement, in terms

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of some of his footwork at the
end NFL level, where Men's looks a

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little bit more developed at least in
the passing and passing part of his game.

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His past that's look pretty developed to
me. But more on the Bengals.

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Spencer He's absolutely right, Amary's men's
limited in having nine stars, I think

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total at uga and yet is one
of the best offensive linemen out there.

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What do you think makes them so
good? He's the Josh Allen of offensive

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tackles. You know, there's just
a raw element or a raw amount of

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traits that you can't teach. He's
six seven, three forty to Nietri.

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You can't coach that. I don't
even know how you raised that, Frank,

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I don't know where you buy clothes
for that kid growing up or in

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college. That's got to be a
nightmare. And I mean, I don't

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even talk about what has got to
cost to feed him over the years.

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He's probably taken in two three thousand
calories an hour, perhaps. But that's

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what makes him such an intriguing NFL
prospect is the prototypical tackle size. He's

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got the height and he's got the
size. If you just coach him up,

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if you get his technique to be
refined, if you are able to

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keep him in the sort of playing
shape that you need, no reason he

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can't be a really really high end
NFL offensive tackle. For continuing coverage of

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