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Hey, it's Ben, and I hope you're having a wonderful start to your week.

I'm glad you are beginning your Monday, at least part of your Monday, with our podcast. And I thank you for supporting our show and being loyal to the program as we

continue on fighting the good fight in Sports Talk Radio. So coming up today on the show,

it's a lot of football, as you might imagine, a football-heavy show.

We had a big upset at Arrowhead in Sunday night football.

We reacted just a short time after the Kansas City Chiefs walked in to Kansas City's home stadium there, their own stadium, and lost to the Indianapolis coast.

The Colts come out a winner, and they held Patrick Mahomes in check, and we will debate

whether or not teams are starting to figure out Patrick Mahomes.

And the Dodgers, back ahead of the nationals like a volcano.

What is that just a temporary situation?

Or have the Dodgers now righted the ship and will they easily take out Washington?

The Chicago Bears, Monsters of the Midway, Mike Tookus.

They get upset by the Raiders, Khalil Mack and friends

emasculated.

Kirk Cousins, the old boomerang game

for the Vikings. We talk about that.

The Dallas Cowboys, a paper tiger,

exposed by the Packers running game.

We'll also have a breakdown on that as well.

Some game show fun along the way.

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