“I don’t like when people talk about our payroll being so low because I think it belittles our players. I think we have a really talented team. Yeah, we don’t have the big superstars that you spend $5million a pop on a guy, but we have a really balanced team, a really talented team, and I think I’d take my group of players over any group of players in this league and I truly mean that.”

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