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Speaker 1: Everybody, I'm Will, so it's been a while. Glad to

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Speaker 1: be with you after a week off and these year

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Speaker 1: good morning football headlines from NFL Network Will. It's been

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Speaker 1: seven weeks since the Shaun Watson threw his last pass

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Speaker 1: for the Texans, and in spite of all the team

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Speaker 1: dysfunction that we've seen over that time, the Texans don't

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Speaker 1: appear to be any closer to training away their twenty

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Speaker 1: five year old franchise qbat. However, as we know, a

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Speaker 1: lot can still change between now and the start of

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Speaker 1: league year on March seventeenth, and according to NFL Networking

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Speaker 1: satura Ian Rappaport, the Panthers remained one of the more

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Speaker 1: aggressive teams looking to acquire Watson, so shouldn't come as

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Speaker 1: a surprise then. The Panthers cleared nearly twenty million bucks

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Speaker 1: and salary cap space this past week by releasing veterans

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Speaker 1: Kawan Short, Trey Boston, and Stephen Weatherly. The Panthers also

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Speaker 1: adding nearly five million cap space by restructuring the contract

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Speaker 1: of center Matt Paradis. It's also interesting to note that

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Speaker 1: Panthers quarterback Teddy Bridgewater recently unfollowed his current NFL team

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Speaker 1: on Instagram. This is a lot. Bridgewater, by the way,

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Speaker 1: finished twenty second amount quarterbacks last season with the ninety

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Speaker 1: two point one passer rating. Meanwhile, the Associated Presses reporting

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Speaker 1: the Bills will let linebacker Matt Milano test free agency

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Speaker 1: due to their own salary cap constraints. Milano has started

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Speaker 1: three eight games for the Bills during his four seasons

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Speaker 1: in Buffalo. Jim Brandon Bean saying he'd still like Milano back,

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Speaker 1: but knows it will be a hot free agent target,

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Speaker 1: adding quote, He's earned his right. We'll just have to

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Speaker 1: see how it plays out. And it was a prime

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Speaker 1: time worthy coaching debut for Dion Sanders this past Sunday,

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Speaker 1: NFL Hall of Famer and we should mention former NFL

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Speaker 1: network analysts led the Jackson State Tigers to a fifty

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Speaker 1: three nothing shout out when over Edward Waters College, and

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Speaker 1: prior to kick off, Sanders, former Cowboys teammate quarterback Troy

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Speaker 1: Aikman surprising that Jackson State head coach on the field

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Speaker 1: with a hug. The Tigers kick off their squack schedule

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Speaker 1: at home next Saturday against Mississippi Valley State. Those are

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Speaker 1: your good Morning football headlines. NFL network