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Now, full disclosure, there's a couple of things that I believe in.

One of them is that if you spend too much time watching exhibition football,

you need to see some kind of psychologist because you've got some issues there.

It's generally painful.

That's one of the beliefs I have regarding exhibition football.

The second belief I have is that you shouldn't take too much away from it.

You shouldn't take too much away from it.

But there are exceptions to the rule, and I saw an exception of the rule.

Now, as you know, in addition to the main meat and potatoes of my radio life here at Fox Sports Radio,

I've been moonlighting for about the last year on a radio station in Boston,

W.E.E.I. And I happened to be on there earlier after the Patriots game with the Eagles. And because of that, and really only because of that, I watched the entire first half of the Patriot Eagle game, the exhibition game, the second week

exhibition game between those two teams.

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