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Hello and welcome.

It's our number three, hour three of our radio show, the program recorded on terrestrial radio and repackaged in the podcast format here for you this hour.

We have a brouhaha that has broken out between TB12 and a number of defensive stars, current and past. This is all about low hits and whether the NFL should take those low hits out of the game.

So Tom Brady's statement about outlawing low hits to the knees,

inbounds or out of bounds?

And what would it take for the NFL to have a call to action on this?

We'll get to it.

And much more right now in our number three.

Football fighting words.

Yeah, those are fighting words.

Welcome in the beginning of another hour, yet another one, of the Ben Malar show.

We are together in the air everywhere as we pass with flying colors, at least we hope.

Coast to coast, border to border, and beyond on the vast.

And extremely powerful microphones of FSR emanating live and in stereo where available from the box the soap box the Fox Sports Radio Studios at a

secret location somewhere.

In the Northwoods, the curtain drawn on another hour.

Our lead coming from the gridiron, not, not Philadelphia's win over Washington, not, not the Rams coming back to beat Seattle.

But we have a civil war of sorts between offense and defense breaking out in pro football.

Tom Brady recently tossed out the opening salvo.

Brady reacting to the injury to his teammate Chris Chris Godwin, was not happy.

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