> ”We’re in the business of keeping great players and A.J. is a great player. A.J. is a difference making player for our team. He’s been on our team for four years. We’ve been to playoffs all four of those years, won a Super Bowl, been in two Super Bowls, he’s a captain on our team. And so, you’re not looking to get rid of players like that.
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> For us, the disappointment in the season was not progressing past the first round of the playoffs — we’re looking to build on that, and go forward. And so, that’s adding on.
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> At the same time, there’s nobody — our job as GMs, we gotta listen on anyone, and that doesn’t have anything to do with A.J. If anyone calls me and says, ‘Hey, I want to talk about a player,’ for me to say unequivocally, ‘I’m not taking your call,‘ that doesn’t make sense because I don’t know what they’re going to say on the other end.
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> Now, the chances that I’m doing that \[trading\] with a great player, they’re not very high.“