I don't have a crystal ball. Eric's a tremendous talent. Good teams pay their players and he's under contract, but I have no control over it.

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Based on what they're proposing, I guess it's not encouraging. We're way off. ... Our attitude has been optimistic, but realistically it may not happen.

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(Gabrielle) had the biggest smile you've ever seen. She would wake up with a smile every day. She would tell us I love you' before she went to sleep at night and before she went to school in the morning.

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Eric has shown that he's certainly worth what he signed for. He might be worth more to this team. We saw what happened in the New England game in Buffalo. It proved that they really needed him more than ever.

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Eric loves Buffalo. He loves the fans. He loves living there. He's a Buffalo person. But should he get less when he can get more somewhere else? No. He wants to be paid according to what the contract is. For Eric, it's a win-win. Eric will do very well somewhere else if the Bills don't want to keep him. He still has tremendous value.

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If you have more money to do things, that's certainly encouraging. The whole process between the owners and union seemed like a puzzle inside an enigma inside a riddle. There's a lot of money out there and a deal needed to be made, and I'm glad they made it. The uncertainties were greater than the agreement.

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Eric loves Buffalo. He wants to play there. But he's not interested in playing for substantially less money.

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