The Bills didn’t leave the trade deadline empty-handed, and Brandon Beane said the deal for safety Amani Hooker came together late in the process.
Beane said the conversation with Tennessee really started to move only a few hours before the deadline.
“If you asked me at noon, I didn’t feel great that we would be able to do anything. This picked up sometime after 1 and got it to the finish line,” Beane said, via Alex Brasky.
One of the biggest reasons Buffalo liked Hooker was the contract situation. Beane pointed to the fact that the safety is under team control through 2028.
“What I really liked about this.. Amani has two additional years on his contract. This is not a (rental),” Beane said, via Brasky.
Beane also made it clear he wasn’t reacting to the Jaguars’ busy deadline day. He said the motivation was internal, not external.
“No pressure.. I put pressure on myself.
How can I help our team be the best it can be.. Sometimes that’s depth, sometimes it’s a true starter..
Always looking,” Beane said, via Brasky.
In Miami, Kyle McCord is preparing for the first start of his NFL career in Week 10 after Malik Willis was placed on injured reserve. McCord said his time at Ohio State and Syracuse has helped get him ready for this moment.
“It’s a blessing, but I think once you get the first play call on the helmet and get going, I think it’ll feel just like football,” McCord said, via PFT. “And I feel like going back to what I was just saying, that’s something that having played in those big college games, I think you’ve been in those moments before.
It’s not my first time I’m playing in a big game. So yeah, I feel like that’s where I’m drawing a lot of confidence from.”
Over in New England, Christian Gonzalez is putting Week 9 behind him after a rough outing against the Packers. He allowed 10 catches for 187 yards in that loss, and when asked what went wrong, he pointed to “certain techniques.”
“It’s a hard question to answer. I mean, just certain things,” Gonzalez said, via PatriotsWire. “You know, there’s certain techniques, certain mistakes that you just gotta fix.”
Gonzalez said there’s no point dwelling on it now, with the Lions up next in Week 10.
“It ain’t no motivation. Like I said on Sunday, it’s rinsed and washed,” Gonzalez said.
“We’re on to Detroit. We’re not worried about the Packers the same way as if we beat the Packers, we wouldn’t be talking about the Packers.
So that’s what comes with this league. When there’s losses and bad games, it’s going to be talked about, but in the locker room, we’re not worried about that game.
We’re worried about Sunday.”
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