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Hello and welcome.

It's our number four, our number four of the Ben Maler radio show in the podcast format, and we go to the NFL.

We ask the question, what do you like and what do you dislike about Lamar Jackson, not hiring a certified NFL agent, and he is about to negotiate this mega mega mega contract on a high wire without a safety net give you the story that things you need to know about

this will get to you right now in our number four there is no agent provocateur. No, no, no. Welcome in the beginning of another hour, the

Ben Mallor show. We are in the air everywhere as we avoid Big Brother, coast to coast, border to

border, and beyond on the vast and powerful microphones of FSR emanating live from deep inside the magic radio box, the Fox Sports Radio Studios.

Hope all is well with you.

Here we are together again this hour and a football hour, a football heavy hour,

and our lead coming from the negotiating table.

Who doesn't like a good conversation about contracts?

It's going to be the story until training camp opens up.

So in a previous episode, we had told you about a revelation we were hearing out of Baltimore

about Lamar Jackson.

And more recently, in a different episode, we told you that we believe Baker Mayfield

will get paid the mega,

mega, mega contract prior to Lamar Jackson and Josh Allen.

Well, we have an update.

We can revisit the story involving Lamar Jackson in particular because we've recently

learned that our report that we were getting about Lamar Jackson is legit.

It's kosher.

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