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Hello and welcome.

It's our number three, hour number three of our radio program. And there's a bunch of coaching changes around the NFL.

There's not a lot of sexy names to go around.

Now, there's an interesting name that has popped up.

The Vikings are looking for a splash hires, allegedly, to replace Mike Zimmer.

Buy or sell, Wayne replace Mike Zimmer, buy or sell,

Lane Kiffin, being on the Minnesota Vikings radar.

We'll take a look at that and much more right now in our number three.

Paging all the big names, we need your help.

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

We are together in the air everywhere as we warm the bench, coast to coast, border to border and beyond, on the vast, and tremendously

powerful microphones of FSR emanating live from the carousel, the coaching carousel, the

Fox Sports Radio Studios, at a secret location somewhere off the grid in the North Woods.

Hope all is well with your lead this hour coming from the revolving door for your favorite NFL team's head coach.

Black Monday has come and gone.

The guillotine has fallen on the neck of several prominent NFL head coaches.

It was a busy one.

The Chicago Bears said bye-bye to their head coach.

The Minnesota Vikings said, thanks for nothing to their coach.

And the Miami Dolphins handed their coach a nice pink slip saying thank you, but

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