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Hello and welcome. It's our number two.

And as you know from seeing the description on this hour, it is a football hour, the big story.

One of the big stories going around the NFL involving the Niners who are giving out votes of confidence like you would give out candy on Halloween.

The 49ers head coach, Kyle Shanahan, giving a endorsement to Jimmy Garapolo.

And what does it mean?

What does it mean for Jimmy Garapolo?

I say he's still going to be gone at the end of the year.

We'll talk about that here in hour number two.

It is becoming a weekly ritual.

Welcome in the beginning of another hour.

It's the Ben Maller show.

We are in the air everywhere, coast to coast, border to border and beyond on the vast Fox Sports Radio Network emanating live as we bloviate the overnight hours away from inside the magic radio box,

also known as the Geico FSR Studio, so we do thank you for spending some time with us.

We begin this hour with football.

Our NFL lead comes from Northern California,

a team that is not going to make the playoffs this season,

but is going to make headlines and provide good sports talk radio fodder.

And we are talking about votes of confidence,

people getting votes of confidence, like they're going out of style.

Now, talking about the Niners, and if you've not been keeping track, and you probably haven't, because the Niners are not particularly good, but here's the inside skiddy on this.

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