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Hello and welcome.

It's our number four, our number four.

Ben Mallor radio program repackaged in the podcast format.

I'll lead this hour coming from football.

Yes, no, maybe so.

Regarding Justin Fields getting a legitimate chance to start at quarterback for the Bears.

Now, it had been assumed that Andy Dalton was going to be the starting quarterback,

but the Bears have apparently changed their mind on that.

Are we buying the latest story coming out of Chicago regarding the highfalutin first-round pick from the Ohio State University?

Mr. Justin Fields will discuss that and more.

It's coming your way right now.

Here it is our number four.

The winds of change are a howling.

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

We are in the air everywhere as we talk around the clock, literally 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 Fox Sports Radio Studios, Hope All as well.

Get away from basketball and some of the other things we've been talking about.

Our lead this hour coming from the windy city where the deep dish pizza is fresh and the football team is stale.

Specifically, the quarterback of the bears, the bears have repeatedly said over the last couple of months that Andy Dalton is going to be their starting quarterback, essentially come hell or high water,

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