Cincinnati Bengals Signing TJ Slaton and Oren Burks

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00:00The Bengals add help on defense.

00:02Hi again, everyone.

00:03I'm James Urpeen from the Locked on Bengals podcast.

00:05And whether it was TJ Slayton or Oren Burks, the Bengals knew they needed some new faces

00:10on defense.

00:11Let's start with Slayton, a big 330-pound nose tackle out of Green Bay, spent the past

00:18four years in Green Bay, was a fifth-round pick in 2021 under Jerry Montgomery, who was

00:22in Green Bay at the time, is now with the Bengals as their defensive line coach.

00:26This makes a ton of sense.

00:27He's going to bolster the Bengals' run defense and be a true nose tackle, which they need

00:32in the middle of their defense.

00:34And Oren Burks, to me, is the perfect Hakeem Davis Gaither replacement.

00:38Now, we don't know if Hakeem is going to come back or not, but Burks signing a two-year,

00:42$5 million deal makes a ton of sense on special teams for Darren Simmons, a ton of sense as

00:48your third linebacker.

00:49By the way, Slayton agreeing to a two-year, $15 million deal.

00:53The Bengals' defense and the Bengals' roster is better now than it was just a few hours

00:58ago with these additions.