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This is Ritchie Incognito of the Buffalo Bills. You're listening to Lockdown Bills presented by Cover 1.

Welcome back to another edition of Lockdown Bills presented by Cover One.

As always, I'm Kevin MacSary.

Here today with Dan Lervoy.

How you doing today, Dan?

Doing good.

How about you? Doing well.

Lots to talk about.

Lots going on and it's busy busy time of the year so ready for an action-packed live show ready to get this thing going and

So let's let's just go to the first topic and that's the national media.

We've been getting a lot of run lately in the national media

and really not for good things.

And I'm sure you've been following along, but first of all,

let's start off like right at the top you know how do you

feel about those shady trade rumors do you think there's anything to them do you

think that there's people trying to reach because of the past trades or you know

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