Deadspin brings us one of the funnier stories of the day. What happens when  a couple of 20-year-olds listen in on two NFL executives talking shop the day before free agency began? Well here what Deadspin tells us:

On Friday afternoon, Buffalo GM Buddy Nix and Tampa Bay GM Mark Dominik shot the shit for about six minutes. They talked about their impending free agents, their frustration with a new three-day negotiating window, and the major handicap of not having a franchise quarterback. They had no idea that a pair of pranksters had set the whole chat up, or that those pranksters were still on the line, listening in.

On Thursday afternoon, the pranksters called Buffalo’s publicly listed front office phone number. They claimed to be Bucs GM Mark Dominik and asked to be transferred to Buddy Nix. To their surprise, they were. Panicking, they hung up as soon as he answered.

Then Buddy Nix called them back.

And he kept calling back. Into Thursday evening, resuming again on Friday morning, Nix’s personal number kept lighting up their cell phone. They ignored it, until they came up with a plan. They would call Mark Dominik, claim to be Buddy Nix, and send the two on a phantom game of phone tag.

So they rang up the Buccaneers, but while on with Dominik’s secretary, Buddy Nix called again. It was perfect. They answered Nix’s call, then fell silent while they were patched through to Dominik. They put the call on speaker, recorded with a second cell phone, and sat back and listened to the fun.

The conversation starts off with some confusion. “Dadgum, son,” the septuagenarian Nix laughs, “I’ve called you back a hundred times!” Dominik assures him that it must have been a wrong number, he would have called him back “in a heartbeat. I wouldn’t mess around with that.”

But Deadspin didn’t just give you the text. They also have the audio check below:

The Buffalo Bills were trying to lock up Jairus Byrd to a long-term deal, but the talks have stalled so they’ve chosen to use their franchise tag on the 26-year-old defender keeping the talented safety in-house. Byrd  arguably  is the most talented player in their secondary. Byrd was targeted 21 times last season and pulled down five interceptions without allowing a touchdown.

While I’m sure both Buffalo and Byrd would like to get a long term deal finish ASAP,  $6.9 million tag placed on Byrd will keep him in Buffalo another season