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Whenever that happens, the player who is not changing teams technically has to buy out any unsold jerseys with the previous number, which can complicate such switches.', '_version': 2, 'componentVariation': 'paragraph'}, 'original_ref': 'www.audacy.com/_components/paragraph/instances/clz2wlkl3000j357k45rc67jk@published'}, {'data': {'text': 'The number to buy out Pitts’ No. 8 jerseys apparently was so high that the tight end told <em>The Midday Show with Andy &amp; Randy</em> they decided it wasn’t worth it.', '_version': 2, 'componentVariation': 'paragraph'}, 'original_ref': 'www.audacy.com/_components/paragraph/instances/clz2wlkmi000k357kszgcx2xt@published'}, {'data': {'text': '“Not as much as everybody thinks,” Pitts said when asked how big of a discussion the number issue was for he and Cousins. “It was really a league thing, it really wasn’t up to us. The number was substantially high, so it was not good for either of us financially. 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