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Hello and welcome.

It's our number two, our number two of our radio program, the 49ers in the sporting news.

Their coach, Kyle Shanahan, with some interesting comments, he sounds genuinely bummed out that the Niners did not get Matthew Stafford in a trade from the Lions.

And he was waxing poetic about how good Matthew Stafford is.

We parse the words of Kyle Shanahan and look ahead in the looking glass for Matthew Stafford.

All of that and more.

It's coming your way here in our number two.

The one that got away.

Welcome in the beginning of yet another hour of the Ben Mather show.

They just keep coming one after another.

We are in the air everywhere as we go at it, hammer and tongs coast to coast, border to border and beyond on the vast and powerful microphones of FSR emanating live from the sweatshop as we slave away over the hot microphones,

that big on-air light shining down from the Fox Sports

Radio Studios, hope all is well.

So our lead this hour comes from the NFL.

We're about three weeks away from the start of training camp, and you can file this one

under the category of the one that got away.

You know where I'm going on this one?

I've got a smile from ear to ear, maybe not.

So this is regarding some recent comments made by Kyle Shanahan.

I don't often talk about Kyle Shanahan, the San Francisco coach, even though they play in Santa Clara.

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