00:00John Warrow, the Associated Press, spoke with Brandon Bean, and he tweeted out last night,
00:07Bill's GM Brandon Bean tells the AP, maybe he told the AP and not Warrow, sorry, I don't
00:11want to get into the first tweet.
00:12It's probably John.
00:14Bill's GM tells the AP he's as aggressive as ever heading into the trade deadline and
00:19more than likely targeting defense.
00:22If going to use what limited cap space he has, he said he probably would use it to acquire
00:27a defender.
00:29Okay.
00:29As aggressive as ever.
00:32Two things.
00:34Just this tweet and this from the GM.
00:37Number one, we don't have to play who wants me to know that.
00:40Bean wants us to know that.
00:41That's why I told the AP.
00:42I'm as aggressive as ever.
00:43And I think that's probably him feeling, I don't know, pressure that he knows people want
00:49to hear he's out there being aggressive.
00:52And the other part is he has now set the expectation that he will acquire a defender.
00:58Right?
00:58So when the Bills go out and finish this trade, whenever it happens, if they get a defender,
01:03it'll be, well, Bean went to the deadline looking for a defender and he was able to get it done.
01:08So how aggressive that has to be, we'll see.
01:12But as aggressive as ever heading into the trade deadline.
01:17Literally, that would mean they're as aggressive as they will spend like a third round pick
01:21on a guy.
01:22Yes.
01:22Yes.
01:23Because they've never been at the trade deadline ultra, ultra aggressive team.
01:27They've been aggressive enough.
01:29Like they make trades and they spend day two picks.
01:31They've been kind of the team in hockey that adds the face-off specialist going into the
01:35playoffs.
01:36Yeah.
01:36Like not the first line winger, but the guy that's going to be a bottom six forward that
01:40kills penalties and wins face-offs.
01:41Right.
01:42They get the rental that like will give you something, but they're not the story of the
01:45league on deadline.
01:47Cooper might've been a little more than that.
01:49Cooper's like, why am I using NHL comparisons?
01:51Just because of like trade deadlines gone by.
01:53Sure.
01:53Right.
01:54Cooper's maybe like a second line.
01:55That's closer.
01:56That's closer to that.
01:58I do think that does apply a little bit of pressure to now actually doing it, which I
02:06would trust that they would have probably added defender.
02:09I don't know how hard it should be to add odd defender.
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