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Hello and welcome. It's our number four, our number four of the Ben Mahler Show, a podcast, a limited commercial interruption.

Remember, if you did not hear the earlier podcast, the fifth hour is up, a conversation with Charlie Steiner,

play-by-play voice of the Los Angeles, Dodgers, the champions of baseball.

ESPN legend back in the day at Sports Center, we catch up with Charlie.

He tells a bunch of great old stories about his time in the media business.

It's a fun listening, I think, but I'm a little biased.

Anyway, this hour, we have the perfect solution to the Denver Broncos quarterback kerfluffle,

as they must move on from Drew Locke.

I have the answer.

I'll give it to you and also to John Elway and the other people in Denver.

Right now, hour number four.

Here it is.

A mile high quagmire, welcome in the beginning of another hour of the Ben Mallor show.

We are in the air everywhere as we schmooze coast to coast, border to border, and beyond on the vast and powerful microphones of FSR emanating live from deep inside the magic radio box.

So I lead this hour comes from the Rocky Mountain region, a team that used to be good

that has not been good for many years.

The Denver Broncos are expected to be very active this offseason.

Their head coach, Uncle Vic Fangandrio, and George Payton.

I thought it was Patton, but apparently he pronounces it Peyton.

So George Payton, the GM there, gave a state of the team address.

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