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

A number of quarterbacks that are down for the count in the NFL,

but that was not the story of the last couple days.

That was not.

That was not the top of the fold headline in the NFL.

That's secondary.

A lot of backups, guys who won't be in the NFL playing right now,

the bulk of the exhibition games, the early part of the schedule. But the story here is that if you thought the pandemic that swept the NFL last year

had been ratified, you are incorrect.

The Colin Kaepernick disease has continued.

In fact, the plague has spread around the NFL.

That's the big takeaway from the weekend that was the last four or five days of exhibition football.

Because we mentioned it last Thursday.

We were here Thursday and a Friday.

Malcolm Jenkins of the Philadelphia Eagles in Green Bay on Thursday night.

He continued to raise his fist and protest.

And then on Saturday in Glendale, Arizona, big headlines all over the place.

Marshawn Lynch.

I wonder how Skittles feels about Marshawn Lynch

sitting during the National Anthem.

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