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Hello and welcome. It's our number four, hour number four of the Ben Maller Radio program with limited commercial interruption in the podcast format.

In this hour, a closer examination of the big spenders, the New England Patriots,

were they savvy or silly for spending big bucks on a bunch of marginal NFL free agents?

Bill Belichick zinging when everyone else thought he was zagging.

We'll take a closer look at the Patriots in their situation.

Right now, here it is our number four.

Flexing those free agent muscles.

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

We are in the air everywhere as we sermonize coast to coast, border to border, and beyond on the vast and powerful microphones of FSR emanating live from inside the theater,

the theater of the mind, the NFL free agency.

Out of the gates we go, the news continuing in the overnight hours with reports out of the windy city

that the Chicago Bears are expected to sign Andy Dalton.

I'm not kidding, by the way.

I'm not making that up that Andy Dalton is expected to go to Chicago.

That news is going to come out later in the day,

and there'll be the second wave of players, day one in the books, day one in the books.

And there's plenty of named players that we've heard of that are still available,

including Kenny Galladay, Richard Sherman, Hunter Henry, Shaq Griffin is out there,

Ju-Jew Smith-Schuster hasn't signed.

Antonio Brown, remember him?

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