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Hello and welcome.

It's our number two, hour number two of our little radio program recorded over the overnight hours and repackaged here for you.

And so in hour number two, the Texans have hired Loving Smith.

He's back in the NFL after failing at Illinois, failing in Tampa Bay.

He's just kind of hanging out at the end of his coaching career,

and now he's the head coach of the Houston, Texans.

Is Brian Flores lawsuit the only reason that Flores was not selected as the head coach in Houston?

We take a look at that and much more right now in our number two.

Here it is.

Moving the puzzle pieces around the board, welcome in the beginning of another hour of the

Ben Mather's show.

We are in the air everywhere as we are the artful Dodger, coast to coast, border to border, and beyond on the vast.

And monumentally powerful microphones of FSR emanating live.

From the image, the spitting image of those other good shows,

the Fox Sports Radio Studios at a secret location somewhere deep in the North Woods.

And we are back at it again.

Our lead this hour coming from the prepared statement department in light of the rumor that has become the fact.

The Texans have agreed to hire Lovey Smith as their new coach, the former Fighting

Aligni coach who had success with the Bears and was a disaster with the Buccaneers many

years ago, a different lifetime.

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