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Hello and welcome.

It's our number three.

Our number three.

Ben Mather Radio show recorded live overnight., available to you now in the podcast format with limited.

Extremely limited, commercial interruptions.

So this hour, we go back to the well with the NFL.

We parse the words of Sammy Watkins. Will Lamar Jackson become a, quote, elite, unquote, passer with better wide receiver play by players such as Sammy Watkins?

We debate that issue and more, including we'll get into this later on, Major League Baseball,

a tough week for Major League Baseball.

We'll explain why all of it coming your way right now.

Here it is our number three.

Some big talk, but isn't real talk.

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

We are in the air everywhere as we blow hot air, coast to coast, border to border, and beyond the vast and powerful microphones of FSR emanating live.

From deep inside the magic radio box, the Fox Sports Radio Studios. Good to have you along

for the ride. Our lead this hour comes from the Ravens Nest and the mouth, the mouth of a new

player in Baltimore. We will be parsing the words of an NFL player who changed teams.

Now, after being rejected by not one but two, possibly three or four receivers in the free agent market,

Baltimore kept knocking on doors until finally somebody answered and decided to sign on the dotted line.

Now, this happened recently.

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