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Finally, finally someone in the world of sports listening to my advice, Sam Darnold, a heartfelt plea.

Do not stay at USC, head to the NFL draft, and less than a day later.

Clearly a podcast listener, he said, you know what, Mallor, you're right.

I ain't staying at USC.

I'm out of here.

We'll talk about that.

Welcome in the beginning of the Ben Maler show.

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NFL draft news boy is that exciting we got to wait for for a wildcard weekend for actual NFL game activity to talk about.

But in the span of roughly half an hour, you had, first of all, the first thing I saw was Josh Rosen, who said, I am out of here.

I am not staying at UCLA, and he is gone.

See you later.

He took off to the NFL via Twitter.

And then Sam Darnold, who it had been speculated that he was considering staying at USC

and that he was going to hang out with the Trojans

for another year and not go to the NFL

draft but voila

he said no no

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