00:00Yesterday, late, I got irritated.
00:04No, irritated is when it's like your skin.
00:06If you have moderate to severe, annoyed is the word I should have used.
00:10People use irritated when that actually is a skin thing.
00:14Annoyed because it was just like Debbie Downer after Debbie Downer
00:18about what Brandon Bean hasn't done yet.
00:20I mean, it's not even the deadline day yet, yesterday.
00:23Like, let's watch the game first.
00:27And, you know, they usually win, and they did.
00:30They did again.
00:30By 17 points.
00:32You know, like, pick at it if you must.
00:35I definitely understand that frustration, but it, you know, I think from here,
00:40you know, there were a couple of people.
00:41One at least is like, you know, I don't mean to get after you guys
00:45or the media for being so soft on this.
00:47Like, well, you know, take into consideration that we're here every day,
00:52and if I'm screaming about what Brandon Bean hasn't done yet,
00:55yesterday at 5 o'clock, and by today he's traded for Buda Baker and Brian Thomas,
01:01I'm going to feel like an idiot.
01:02And a lot of you are going to think I'm an idiot.
01:05You want to call us at 5 o'clock on the day before the deadline and be mad.
01:08On game day.
01:09You don't have to call back and say, I got to eat it.
01:12Nobody knows who you are.
01:13Nobody cares.
01:14You know, respectfully, really, in the big scheme of things.
01:17And not that anybody's hanging on every word we say,
01:19but, you know, I don't want to be a donkey overreacting to something
01:23that has not definitively happened yet.
01:27One player that's come up in these conversations is Tennessee safety Amani Hooker,
01:33and Tom Pellicero reports he's being traded to Buffalo.
01:38I think that's excellent news.
01:41I mean, without knowing even what they're giving up yet.
01:44Were you mad yesterday that the Bills hadn't traded for Amani Hooker?
01:47I was not because I was maybe hopeful that they would do it today.
01:51There you go.
01:52That's been a very reasonable idea almost all along.
01:58I think a player who should fit what they do and isn't, I don't think, super expensive.
02:05I don't have that yet.
02:07At this point.
02:07So, that guy was definitely out.
02:10You know, I don't think he's at the very top of the list, like Bates maybe was, or Buda Baker.
02:17But to me, Hooker, clearly, I think, an upgrade over what they've got there.
02:23Definitely an upgrade over C.J. Gardner-Johnson, I would say, who was their, you know,
02:28the anointed starter going into the year, who that I vested themselves of.
02:32So, I'm excited about that.
02:33What should the price be?
02:35Three?
02:36At most, I think.
02:37At most.
02:38At most.
02:38I agree.
02:40He's been in the league for eight years.
02:43This is his eighth season.
02:44All with Tennessee.
02:47So, don't beat yourself up if you've never heard of him.
02:50Tennessee.
02:51But, you know, good.
02:53Makes sense.
02:53I think safety was the position most often sort of bandied about when it came to the Bills.
03:01And that's, like, even from Brandon Bean, perhaps, that safety was what they were most likely to do.
03:09Amani Hooker, age 28, reportedly being traded to the Bills.
03:14We don't know for what yet.
03:18Really hasn't been the, oh, wait a minute.
03:22It's a second and a fifth.
03:24Adam Schefter says a second and a fifth.
03:26Ooh.
03:29All right.
03:29I'm glad they didn't stop because they didn't get it for the price that I just suggested maybe they should
03:34have paid.
03:36I'm going to be satisfied with that.
03:40Well, we don't know the whole story yet because the deadline is at four.
03:46But, man, the teams that want to sell like this, this is their time to shine, you know?
03:55Mm-hmm.
03:55The Eagles so far.
03:57The Titans.
03:58Ah.
03:59You know what wasn't taken into account when I answered your question quickly?
04:03Because now I'm looking at what his contract is.
04:06Yeah.
04:06They've got to be eating money here.
04:08He's 11 million on the cap, almost 12 million this year on the cap, 13 next year on the cap.
04:15There's a potential out after this year on the contract as it exists now, but that was before I assume
04:21Tennessee reworked it to make the trade palatable to Buffalo.
04:24I misread the Schefter tweet.
04:26The Bills trade a second for Hooker and a fifth.
04:30So the fifth is coming this way.
04:31Fifth back.
04:32Reportedly.
04:33Yep.
04:33The second is because the contract.
04:35I'm assuming the Bills don't have 13 million or whatever the prorated version even of 13 million is on the
04:41cap to pay this guy.
04:44So I've got to be sure that Tennessee's doing what Atlanta did for Jacksonville yesterday with Bates, which is eat,
04:51you know, however much of the money you've got to eat to get the better compensation back.
04:57And that, we learned, is sort of like a nuanced thing.
05:00It's not like the NHL where the team just agrees to eat the salary.
05:04They can convert what's left of the salary into signing bonus, give it to the guy right away.
05:09The team trading the player away gets whacked with dead money, and you give up a better asset because they're
05:16taking the burden of the finances off your hands.
05:19I don't know what it does to future years of the contract in the situation.
05:25Hooker's under contract for two more years.
05:28SpotTrack says there's a potential out, you know, after this season.
05:33So I don't know if that all still stands or once it gets redone, if the whole thing is new
05:38again.
05:38So I don't know what the status will be.
05:41Maybe Bean can fill us in about that when he talks, which he will eventually today.
05:45We think, yeah.
05:46Talk about, you know, what he did or didn't do, and clearly he's done something.
05:50That I think fans are going to like.
05:53I certainly like it.
05:57Well, you're Mr. 5-0, so your opinion goes a long way.
06:03Sure, yeah.
06:06Well, we got the game talking just in time.
06:09Yeah, we did.
06:10Can we talk about the game, and then we got done talking about the game?
06:13Well, I would say now that they made this trade, we'll have a lot more liberty to talk about the
06:18game, I think.
06:19Because the intensity of the, when's he going to do something?
06:22When's he going to do something?
06:24Unless people want to come with, you're going to do something else.
06:27Which, you know, is fine.
06:31That's where you are.
06:32But this, to me, is a significant move at, I think, their biggest position of need.
06:39I feel like whatever you've been feeling about cornerback is really stabilizing with Igbenosin playing.
06:46And he played, again, the lion's share of the reps.
06:49Hairston got in because I think Benford was in and out a little bit.
06:53But Igbenosin has clearly become their preference, and I think that's been good for them.
06:59So, I didn't feel as much urgency for them to make a big move at corner, like a starting level
07:06move at corner, as I did at safety.
07:09There, to me, was a hole there that existed, you know, really all year.
07:16Even with C.J. Gardner-Johnson back there, it was kind of messy, very messy.
07:20And hopefully this guy can pair well with Bishop, and they can have a nice tandem.
07:25Of the four cornerbacks, including Alford, Igbenosin played the most last night.
07:3281%.
07:32Alford, 75%.
07:34I mean, I don't know what you do with it, because Minnesota just was, again, so bad offensively.
07:40Wentz, Hairston, 60%.
07:41Benford, 58%.
07:42So, Benford, with an injury, played the fewest snaps of any defensive, any cornerback in the game.
07:50I mean, it was 48 snaps to 80.
07:53You run 80 plays, you have had a night.
07:55It's just so interesting how that happened without the Bills really humming.
08:01We have games where they just, I guess, you know, games like that, it's just sort of quick down the
08:06field,
08:07and it might have to be a slog to get to 80 snaps.
08:11I don't know how often 80 snaps has happened.
08:13I'm sure it has.
08:15But that's just, what a weird, fun, interesting game that was.
08:19I was riveted.
08:21I was, like, like I'm sitting now.
08:24I didn't have friends over.
08:25I'm not as cool as you, but I was, like, edge of my seat throughout this game.
08:30I bought them pizza.
08:32Well, I mean, so you bought their friendship, you're saying.
08:35Yes.
08:36With pizza.
08:37With pizza.
08:37Pizza Monday, apparently.
08:39At your house.
08:40At my house.
08:41Yeah, that's all that.
08:41I don't know where to find this Pizza Monday.
08:43That's how that rolls.
08:43I can't get any pizza on Mondays.
08:47So, all right.
08:48Well, you've got a win and you've got a deal.
08:51Amani Hooker from Tennessee reportedly traded to the Bills for a second,
08:55and the Bills get a fifth back.
08:57The deadline is at four.
09:00Still got a lot of possibilities here, not just for the Bills.
09:04Minnesota looking for quarterbacks.
09:05Kirk Cousins.
09:06Jonathan Taylor.
09:08You know, just, like, big names maybe, but it hasn't happened yet.
09:14Schefter with Cousins makes me think that that's sort of like he's one of the Pierre LeBruns,
09:19where it's like, all right, now this is going to happen.
09:21Yeah.
09:21But it hasn't happened yet.
09:24He puts it out there, maybe last call NFL for Cousins were willing to do it.
09:29Didn't he just report on Sunday that they were not listening on Cousins?
09:33He just reported like two days ago.
09:34I can't keep it straight because there's been so much of that.
09:38Today there's Brian Thomas Jr.
09:40They're just not trading Brian Thomas Jr., and I'm still not ruling that out
09:44because I feel like that is some version of a cooperative reporter
09:49letting the team let everyone else know, like, hey, you know,
09:54if you want to come off the top rope with something pretty good, call us.
09:58It's all a big show.
10:00But I would expect him to be moved.
10:03Cousins, yes.
10:03Yes.
10:04I agree.
10:05I agree.
10:05Probably to Minnesota.
10:07Like, I feel like that's gotten very specific.
10:09There's history there, and to me, that's, you know,
10:13provided you can make the compensation work,
10:16like, that's a way better idea than Daniel Jones to me.
10:19Me too.
10:19And I don't think highly of Cousins, but, like,
10:23if he's on the field in that game last night,
10:26you might get the Raiders' performance on offense.
10:29Out of them, and you might not have been able to keep up.
10:33Yeah.
10:33I think they probably win if that – I mean, the game was there for Minnesota.
10:40Just, you know, they just couldn't do anything.
10:42So, you know, that's how it goes.
10:44You don't have to apologize for winning.
10:47But the Bills were not able to do anything, really, on offense
10:52until it got so late and they were so tired that it didn't even matter anymore.
10:5780 plays, wow.
10:59Despite not even really having that much success.
11:02Play to play.
11:04Okay.
11:04Deadline day, and we'll look for your calls next.
11:07803-0550.
11:09The schedule as of now is 3.30 for Ross Tucker.
11:16All times Eastern.
11:173.30 for Ross Tucker.
11:194.30 for Deion Dawkins, we think.
11:21We don't know how to reach Deion Dawkins.
11:23Like, he just sort of tells us – he just sort of calls in.
11:26Nobody knows how to reach Deion Dawkins.
11:28But, you know, every week so far he's been, like, right on time and great.
11:33Then Sal at 5.
11:35And am I missing something?
11:37No.
11:37No.
11:37Somewhere in between.
11:39Or maybe even after Sal, Brandon – if we can carry Bean live, we will.
11:43We just don't know, with Deion and everything else we got going,
11:46whether the timing's going to work out.
11:48We just don't know.
11:49Bean is going to let – the Bills are going to let people know when he's talking,
11:52and we don't know that yet.
11:53So we will bring it to you some way, shape, or form at some point within this show.
11:58Yeah.
11:59That's the plan.
11:59And Dawkins didn't play, by the way.
12:01I know.
12:02We weren't expecting that.
12:04It's a bad read on that – him – I just –
12:06Who knows?
12:06I want – you're going to ask him.
12:09Do you want that back?
12:10Like, you made – you sort of made light of, oh, I'm hurting,
12:14when he was walking in being videotaped by media.
12:16And I thought, for sure that means he's playing.
12:19And, boy, was I wrong there.
12:21Yeah.
12:21Okay, we'll take a break now.
12:23803-0550.
12:25Bills trade for Titans safety, Amani Hooker, reportedly.
12:29Mike Schoep and the Bulldog, this is WGR.
