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welcome it's our number one hour number one of our radio program.

And this hour, we take a deep dive into Monday night football from rainy Seattle.

What stood out to you the most in the Saints win over the Seahawks, a 13 to 10 thriller.

So I'll go first.

I've got Gino Smith,

a take on Gino Smith,

Pete Carroll as well,

and not in the heavyweight division.

That and more right now in our number one.

Call it a mixed bag.

Welcome in the beginning of another edition of the Ben Mather show.

We are side by side in the air everywhere as we bite our tongue coast to coast, border to border and beyond on the vast and powerful microphones of FSR emanating live from inside your eardrums providing marginal sports talk radio all night long, the Fox Sports Radio Studios at a secret location in the Northwoods.

So is the glass half full or is the glass half empty?

We had the conclusion, the final game on the card for week seven of the NFL season.

We head to the Pacific Northwest, a game that was played in mud.

Thick mud.

James Winston and the Saints continuing the post-Drew Breeze era visiting Seattle

for a date with Gino Smith,

a quarterback matchup that only Mama would have loved.

There was a couple of questionable quarterbacks.

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