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Hello and welcome.

It's our number four, our number four of our radio program.

And we admit that it's kind of like red meat, a quarterback saying silly things.

It's a red flag to a bull.

We love to talk about these stories. Now, Nick Foles, a third-string quarterback for the Chicago Bears, said some very interesting things recently,

and he is buried behind Andy Dalton and Justin Fields, but we will parse the words of Nick Foles,

who has delusions of grandeur.

We will get to that, and much more right now in our number four a hibernating bear welcome in the beginning

of yet another hour of the ben maller show we are in the air everywhere as we level the playing

field coast to coast, border to border,

and beyond on the vast and powerful microphones of FSR emanating live from another dimension,

a dimension of only sound and mind, to the boundaries of imagination,

the Fox Sports Radio Studios.

Thank you for spending some time on us.

With us, there is some movement in NBA Free Agency.

There's been a few stories that have happened here in the overnight.

We'll get to those momentarily. But we begin with football.

Why do we begin with football?

Because football matters more than all the other sports.

So our lead coming from Chicago, the wings of change, are blowing around the Bears

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