Everyone thinks of GMs is picking the players, okay?

And that is very important.

You've got to get that right.

But there's also been many GMs that are great talent evaluators,

but maybe got too close to players and maybe paid the wrong players,

or they couldn't lead the entire football operation.

Welcome to the next episode of What's Next with Eric Wood.

Our next guest is Brandon Bean, the GM for the Buffalo Bills.

And through this podcast, we will talk about how Bean got to be in the position of running an NFL franchise

and his rise to the top of an NFL organization.

What it's like being a GM in the NFL.

We'll also talk about the current state of the Buffalo Bills and what will get them to the Super Bowl.

Last year, a great season, make the playoffs clinched in week 15 but an early exit from the playoffs in Houston what do they need to do to get to the Super Bowl and we'll talk about some fun things including who won our last golf match enjoy brain of Bean welcome to the show appreciate it eric for the sake of this do you

want me to call you mr bean you want me call you brandon bean or what you want me call me

pretend like you want me pretend like you want me pretend like you're my boss and i call you mr vene no

anything but mr don't call me that please all right bean all right so let's start off like we do with

most most guests talk about

you know sports you played in high school where you went to college what did you study let's get

a little background that a lot of bills fans and people around the country don't know yeah so um

i grew up playing three sports i know nowadays everybody's got specialized sports and all that but

i played football basketball and

baseball and real quick is a GM do you look for athletes that played three sports or does that not

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