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Hello and welcome.

It's our number four, our number four of our radio show, the Ben Mather show, repackaged in the podcast format.

And we take a look at the NFL.

Big story in the NFL here, the New England Patriots holding their mandatory minicamp.

Guess who wasn't there?

Stefan Gilmore, a no-show, will a holdout from Stefan Gilbert result in him getting a new deal from the Patriots or will it result in him being traded?

We'll take a look at that.

And more, it's coming your way right now.

Here it is our number four.

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Well, that depends the eye of the beholder.

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

We are in the air everywhere as we brave the elements coast to coast, border to to border and beyond on the vast and powerful microphones of FSR emanating live from another dimension to dimension of only sound in mind to the boundaries of imagination.

The Fox Sports Radio Studios Hope All as well. We're back at it again. And we begin this hour with football.

Now, we are in the lull before things get exciting again in football. But this story did catch my attention.

Some drama coming out of Foxborough. It involves Stefan Gilmore.

And what is this all about?

Where are we going with this?

So the Patriots opened up their mandatory three-day minicamp.

It's mandatory.

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