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Hello and welcome.

It's our number four, hour four of our radio program, another unhappy NFL star.

We go to Tennessee, where the Titans number one receiver, skipping voluntary workouts, and scrub a dubbing social media.

What do you make of this A.J. Brown contract squabble.

We'll get into that and more right now in our number four.

Here it is.

Let's not remember the Titans.

It's remember the contract.

Pay me, pay me, pay me.

Welcome in the beginning of another hour of the Ben Mather Show,

as we are together in the air everywhere,

driving the big bus, coast to coast, border to border, and beyond on the vast.

And monumentally powerful microphones of FSR emanating live from the whale.

How to eat a whale?

One bite at a time, the Fox Sports Radio Studios at a secret location somewhere in the

Northwood.

So the opening round of the playoffs and the NBA continue, not a lot of great talk radio

provided by that.

Our lead this hour comes from the NFL.

We are in the silly season of the NFL still,

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