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Hello and welcome.

It's our number four, our number four of our radio show.

What are the odds that Drew Brees will turn out to be a successful NFL commented?

Breeze already has a sweetheart deal with NBC to call games starting on Notre Dame broadcast right away

and eventually NFL broadcast.

But will he be any good?

We examine that question.

We have the odds, that and more coming your way right now in hour number four.

Retiring but not retiring.

I'll explain.

Welcome in the beginning of another hour of the Ben Mallor show.

We are in the air everywhere as we treat insomnia, 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 you got to have a backup plan.

You got to have a backup plan in life.

And no one really retires in their 40s.

Our lead this hour comes from the high stakes world of sports casting because drew breeze in air quotes

retired from the saints and in doing so activated a fallback plan a backup plan if you will

and might have forgotten about this maybe you missed it so drew breeze who made it official on Sunday, he's not coming back to the NFL as a player,

but he is coming back to the NFL in a different role.

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