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A special show for you guys today.

Bill's general manager, Brandon Bean, is going to join us.

We had a wide-ranging conversation a couple weeks ago about just the state of the franchise in Buffalo.

Obviously, a team in transition with them moving on from some veterans, got cheaper at some positions, pretty crucial offseason where they think they had to ask themselves some big sweeping questions. We got into

all of that. I've always really appreciated talking to Brandon about just the ideas behind team building

some of the perspective that he has. He's somebody that's pretty open, transparent, thoughtful

about a lot of these ideas. So excited for you guys to hear the conversation. Let's get to it.

Joining us now, it is the general manager of the Buffalo Bills, Brandon Bean. Brandon, really appreciate you taking the time to do this with us. Glad to do it, Robert. Hope all as well. I'm doing very well. It's that point in the calendar. I'm about to go on vacation. You still have about a month before you get to get away. So the fact that you're spending some of that precious time with me is much appreciated. I was just watching your post draft press conference

this morning. And you used a term that I think has been pretty prevalent in how people have

talked about you guys this spring. And this is a team in transition. And I wanted to ask you,

as you're looking at moving from one phase of the franchise

to the next, what is your kind of main set of priorities as you think about what that next

phase should look like? Yeah, well, listen, it still starts with the quarterback. How do we

build this around the quarterback?

You see every team's comp, you know, piling up picks or doing what they've got to do to try to get their guy.

And, you know, you probably saw some teams that got themselves in position for the draft,

but weren't able to get in front of, you know, someone else that wanted. So we all know

that that's where it starts. And so with Josh, where are the economics of that? Where are we

at in the cycle of his contract? How do we continue to build around him and keep the cap so that

it's, you know, we had to make some tough cap decisions this

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