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Hello and welcome.

It's our number two, our number two of our radio program, and we go to football.

And now that he's had foot surgery, are the Colts doomed?

Without Carson Wentz, many of the naysayers and the football media think that Indianapolis is being derailed.

They have a very tough schedule to start the year, and they will not have Carson Wentz, at least at the beginning of the season.

We will push back on that narrative right now in our number two.

Under the Knife, we go welcome in the beginning of another hour of the Ben Mather's show.

We are together in the air everywhere as we quibble with one another over the bill.

Coast to coast, border to border, and beyond on the vast and powerful microphones of FSR emanating live from the cave, the Batcave, the Fox Sports Radio Studios.

Good to have you with us.

Thank you.

We appreciate it.

If you missed last hour, we had an entire hour. Hopefully management's not listening of bat coverage.

Pretty much the bounds of the hour, we had a bat flying around the studios.

And the bat had perfect timing. We'll get back to that story because we have to revisit that to the bat post-game show.

But the bat had tremendous timing, clearly listening. I didn't know bats could hear, but listening to the bat post-game show, but the bat had tremendous timing,

clearly listening.

I didn't know bats could hear, but listening to the end of the hour, we had a hard network out, and Mike Harmon, our embedded reporter on the front lines, giving us the blow-by-blow

there, great job by Harmon.

He's going to win some kind of Marconi Award for that.

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