Matt Cassel

You show up earlier, you stay later, and that will set a precedence for your career, like what you're all about.

And so I took that mentality in there from day one, and hopefully they noticed.

But I also – there was two first-rounders that year, me and Aaron Maben.

Aaron Maben was drafted 11th overall.

Mabin made me look really good.

You know, he rolls in with a three-piece suit.

I roll in with a t-shirt.

I get our number one jerseys up in Buffalo.

And from day one, he made me look pretty good in Buffalo because he was, you know, he's from State College, but he was pretty Hollywood.

I guess he was Baltimore, then State College, but he was pretty Hollywood.

And he made me look really good up in Buffalo.

I'll be honest, no.

Just being completely frank, I used to say in interviews, because the Chargers were one of the teams that were potentially going to draft me, and I always used to say, I can go anywhere from San Diego to Buffalo.

And that was almost – I was referencing two teams that I knew were interested, but it was almost like there's the –

There's the scale.

And I get up to Buffalo, and from day one, just the people in the organization made it feel right.

And then you meet people in town and, you know, just the restaurants.

And we have lifelong friends from up there.

We do not live there, even though I work up there a lot.

I'll be up there the next couple weeks for different events and whatnot.