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This is the best of the Ben Mallor show on Fox Sports Radio.

Big game hunting, NFL style.

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because you can pretty much say whatever the F you want.

It's speculation.

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If you look for systematic failure in the NFL, the Cleveland Browns or the gold standard.

And because the Browns have been such a stink bomb, such a cesspool in the NFL.

They have taken the glory away from franchises like the New York Jets.

The Browns have been, and it's such a different level of stinkage that their incompetence has taken over.

It's like a skunk smelling up everything, and other teams are overlooked for their failures.

It has been nine, think about this, nine mostly horrific seasons of Josh McCown, Ryan Fitzpatrick,

Gino Smith, and Mark Sanchez. That has been the last nine years of Jets football.

Yes, serving up cow patties at the quarterback position week after week after week, after week.

And now has there been an epiphany?

The Jets yet again find themselves at that proverbial crossroads.

And if you've not been paying attention, maybe actually were doing stuff.

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