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Hello and welcome.

It's our number three of the podcast back at it on a Monday and glad you have tuned in.

We take a look back at the weekend that was in the NFL where the Las Vegas Raiders

went east.

They headed to the northeast to take on the New England Patriots and the Raiders were

feeling their oats against the New Orleans Saints came crashing back down to

Realityville at the hands of the New

England Patriots, a examination of a domination by Bill Belichick against John

Gruden here in our number three. It's coming your way right about now.

Back in the win column, the New England Patriots, K.O. The Raiders, we discussed.

Welcome in the beginning of another hour.

It's the Ben Maller show.

We are in the air everywhere, coast to coast, border to border, and beyond as we filibuster the overnight hours away on the vast Fox Sports Radio Network emanating live from inside the headquarters of the Magic Radio Box.

And glad you have chosen to spend a couple of minutes with us.

And so we begin this hour with a look at what went down in New England.

I think we can agree all of us that this was one of the more interesting matchups on the NFL card in the early television window.

The Las Vegas Raiders fresh off their win against New Orleans,

and now they go all the way across the country,

take on the Patriots in an empty stadium in Foxborough,

and it was Rex Burkhead of all people who scored three touchdowns

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