00:00Bill's trade for Monty Hooker, and good. Good job.
00:03Yes. Very much so.
00:05Very much so. Totally, totally satisfies the hunger for a good, sizable trade.
00:12Good job.
00:13Yeah. Very happy with the results of yesterday.
00:16Good player, it seems. And you know me, Joe. I like to sometimes do the...
00:21I don't need to watch the film. I'll look at the contract, and the contract will tell me what kind
00:25of player I've got.
00:26Right? When the Bills cut C.J. Gardner-Johnson, one thing that I tweeted about, talked about on the air,
00:34was often your, hey man, low-risk, high-reward signings deliver low rewards.
00:42That was C.J. Gardner-Johnson. The Bills have been living in that safety spot in the dollar bin.
00:50The bargain bin.
00:51The bargain bin. Taylor Rapp, $3 million per year. Mike Edwards, $1 million per year.
00:55DeMar Hamlin coming back all the time on like a league minimum.
00:58Even C.J. Gardner-Johnson. Like, it's been these low-level contracts for the safety position since Poyer and Hyde.
01:05And they've kind of played it like it doesn't matter that much outside of Cole Bishop, which is a good
01:10investment.
01:11They're getting by. They're trying to get by.
01:13And here comes Amani Hooker, and this guy makes money.
01:16He is paid. He was drafted. He's good.
01:19His team re-signed him, and he's on a contract that pays him real safety money.
01:25Thirteen and a half AAV.
01:28Four times what C.J. Gardner-Johnson was.
01:31You have upgraded in a very, very big way.
01:34I know, like, there are some overpaid players in the league.
01:37But for me, very simple.
01:39What's the guy make?
01:39He makes a lot of money. He's probably pretty good.
01:41That's a really good way to look at it.
01:43But it's, uh, you make a, not to make a fantasy football comparison, but you make your dynasty trade with
01:49a group.
01:49You go in and check the fantasy pro's score.
01:51I'm like, oh, this guy's a 73, and the guy I had was a 12?
01:55Yeah.
01:56I've done well.
01:57I don't have to look at much more than that.
01:59Of course, we will.
02:00And we'll talk about the fit and all that.
02:03But they didn't mortgage their future for all the pearl clutchers.
02:07They spent a draft pick for a guy that might make a difference next year in the second-round pick.
02:13Next year's Davis and Igbenosin, or whatever that might be.
02:16Yep.
02:16Instead, they got a starting player for multiple seasons at a position of need.
02:20That's a job well done.
02:21They acquired the 12th highest-paid safety in the NFL by average per year yesterday.
02:27And before that, C.J. Gardner-Johnson was their highest-paid safety.
02:32He ranked, I should say, 44th in the NFL.
02:36So by investment, by the draft pick investment, it is a sizable investment.
02:42It's the D.J. Moore trade for the defense.
02:44It's almost...
02:45Is it not exactly the same compensation?
02:47It's almost exactly the same deal.
