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But here in hour number four, we go back to the bread and butter of our show,

the National Football League.

And we parse the words of a starting quarterback,

one of the highest paid quarterbacks in the NFL over recent years,

thumbs up or thumbs down on Kirk Cousins' recent comments about retiring as a Viking.

Is that good news?

Thumbs up or thumbs down?

We discuss that and more right now in our number four.

Here it is.

Feeling the purple, the purple love.

Welcome in the beginning of another hour.

It's the Ben Mather's show, and we are side by side in the air everywhere.

As we give you all the trimmings, coast to coast, border to border, and beyond on the vast.

And pioneeringly powerful microphones of FSR emanating live from the advocate's chair as we play devil's advocate,

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

And our lead this hour does come from the NFL those Minnesota Vikings always a hot topic in

this part unless they're not but the Minnesota Vikings held workouts this week they began workouts

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