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Brandon Beane sat down with Sal Maiorana to talk through the moves he has made early in free agency.
ORCHARD PARK - Last Friday afternoon, Buffalo Bills president/GM Brandon Beane met with head coach Joe Brady and coordinators Pete Carmichael and Jim Leonhard to discuss the state of the roster after the initial burst of free agent signings were in the books. “Joe and I decided to do an exercise,” Beane told the Democrat and Chronicle in an exclusive interview Monday morning. “Just grabbed the coordinators and my top scouts to look at the roster now with the guys we’ve added.
My point to Joe was, ‘All right, if we have two nickels left to spend, I don’t want to spend them on a guy that may not even get a jersey on game day if we’re healthy. “So let’s talk about the 48-man on game day. We still need this, we still need that.
If we can get someone again for minimum or just over minimum, and we just have a little bit of money left to spend, let me make sure I am spending it in the right place. ” While it may have felt like a quiet start to free agency for Buffalo, that meeting left Beane feeling like the roster is in a good spot for mid-March given the salary cap constraints he faced. He quickly acknowledged that there’s still plenty of work to be done, but Friday’s get-together helped set the agenda for what the Bills will be looking for in the weeks to come as they try to fill in more holes with low-budget free agents, and of course, the draft.
Beane said the Bills were around $16 million or so over the cap before he began making the necessary moves to not only get them compliant with the $301. 2 million salary cap threshold, but give them room to operate. “It wasn’t like we had an easy cut to get $30 million back,” he said.
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