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you five days a week and Jeff free agency right around the corner everyone is getting, putting their salary cap hats on, trying to figure out what

this team's going to do in free agency, who they're going to keep, what external guys

they might like to bring in.

And last year when we talked to you, I think we disagreed with you, but you said, oh, they're going to go

heavy on defense. And as I told you down to the Super Bowl on Radio Row, it turns out you were

right. Let's just start there. What's your initial feeling about what this team's going to do in

free agency this year? They're going to go defense. No, I don't. I, you know, I guess I think they're going

to obviously try to upgrade the offensive line, but I also think that what's different this

year than in the last two years when they've basically blown all their, you know, free agency

money records out of the water. What's different now when they've basically blown all their, you know, free agency money records

out of the water. What's different now is they've got, A, they've already got a big piece of the pie

has already spoken for in Jesse Bates and they've got internal guys that they want to sign.

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