[Preds]

Knock-knock, is this on, oh OK, thank you... ahem... hello everyone, thank you for coming out this rainy afternoon.

I am here today to announce a change in direction with the Predators franchise. We have decided to officially DECLINE matching the Chunks contract offer to QB Tom Brady. We thank Tom for his years of service, but feel it's time to go another direction.

We are also here to annouce a trade with the Chunks. We are sending backup QB Matt Schaub to them so that he can continue backing up Tom, in exchange the Predators will be receiving QB's Phillip Rivers and Alex Smith.

While we recognize that both Rivers and Smith struggled in 2012, we are confident that with a change of scenery and coaching scheme we can help both of these players elevate their games.

Note, I cannot at this time comment on our contract offer on the table for Matthew Stafford aside from stating we are indeed in talks with him and would like to add him to the mix here in Buffalo.