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Hello and welcome.

It's our number one, our number one of our radio program. and we are back at it again.

Before we tell you what's coming up this hour, it is the week before the NFL

draft, and the fifth hour podcast will be dropping a little bit later,

and I want you to listen to that if you're a football fan,

because we will be having an infamous figure

from the NFL on that podcast. Ryan Leif, remember him? One of the great busts of all time.

Some would argue the greatest bust of all time, although I would argue that he was passed by

Jamarcus Russell, but he's in the conversation. So Ryan Leif will talk about his career,

what he thinks of some of these quarterbacks in the draft,

what he likes, what he doesn't like,

and we'll get into it with Ryan Leif on the fifth hour podcast,

which may or may not be available right now when you're getting this podcast.

It drops normally at 9 a.m.

Eastern 6 in the West.

But coming up this hour,

Deshawn Watson's Circus Update.

Under the big top, we go.

Another L for the Texans quarterback.

We'll explain what's going on.

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