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So how do the Rams keep handing out big contracts?

Leonard Floyd, who the Rams had as a free agent, he signed a massive extension,

one of the biggest extensions offered on day one of free agency.

So if they hired Harry Houdini as a salary cap consultant,

when they're already in salary cap, hell,

we'll take a closer look at how the Rams are doing all this.

We'll get to that, and we will do it right now in hour number three.

Oops, they did it again.

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

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

So our lead this hour comes from the NFL free agency world.

Obviously, it's a little bit of advanced algebra here.

There's one team in particular that made a move that upset the Apple cart in the NFL.

That team, the Rams.

It's the news around Leonard Floyd.

I'm not sure if you heard about this or not.

Maybe you didn't pay attention because he's a defensive player and defensive players

don't get that much attention.

And Leonard Floyd had been a nobody in Chicago.

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