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5 takeaways from Brandon Beane as Bills shift focus towards future

‘”Nothing we did will matter when we start this offseason and when we start camp,” Beane said. “Every team is built up of new players and we’ll have to hit the reset button. We have a lot of work to do just to try and get this thing going and build a team that can earn its way back to where we were and hopefully further.”‘

4 Notable Quotes: Brandon Beane

‘Your last game…generally will tell you where you’re short if you don’t want it all. I think may be a little bit more balance of the run game. When I say balanced I’m not saying run it 20 times and throw it 20 times. I’m saying the ability to run it when you have to. Maybe they’ve got great pass rushers, the team you’re playing, and you want to slow them down so you run it. You’re not always going to be able to track meet everybody up and down the field. Weather can play an element. Heading into that Baltimore game the weather was looking a little bit iffy. Obviously it was the wind but if you add snow and rain to that it would not be conducive to passing so we’ve got to make sure that we can handle any of the elements if we want to host games here in January.’

From the producers desk: Bills Offseason Pt. 2

‘Lets start with the biggest question facing next year’s Bills defense: linebacker. Matt Milano has been a stalwart on the Bills defense and is due a massive upgrade from his rookie deal that was paying him an average salary of $665,000 a year. His results on the field have the free agent in line for a top 10 outside linebacker payday. That could have him in the the $12-14 million dollar range.’

Buffalo Bills facing salary cap restrictions as the offseason amps up

‘“The further you go probably the more it hurts because you know you’re that close,” Beane said. “You’re walking into that game knowing you’re 60 minutes away from an opportunity to win it all and that’s ultimate goal. So when you’re right there on the doorstep and you don’t do it, in our locker room it’s a lot of tears.”’

Season of success followed by offseason of uncertainty

‘The problem begins with the salary cap. This time last year, the 2021 cap was expected to rise from $198 million in 2020 to $210 or $215 million. Then, the pandemic hit and the league had to brace for significantly less revenue. The 2021 cap is still unknown, but has a floor of $175 million. It’s not expected to be much higher. Beane said more will be learned about the final number after league meetings over the next couple weeks.’

10 things we learned from Sean McDermott’s final press conference of the 2020 season

‘”They’re (Chiefs) in year eight, right and we’re in year four, but that’s a little bit of a feel for how long they’ve been building their program and where we are,” McDermott explained. “There’s a lot that we’ve improved on in terms of what’s gotten us to where we are. But to Tre’s [White] point and what we shared as a team yesterday, there is still a gap in terms of where we are and where they are. It’s just not one answer as to what solves that problem. We all have to continue to ask ourselves the hard questions of the what ifs, the whys and the hows.”‘

Bills Today | Could this be Buffalo’s breakout player in 2021?

‘Selected in the fourth round out of Central Florida, Davis emerged as a significant piece of Buffalo’s passing puzzle. He appeared in all 16 games with 11 starts and finished with 35 catches, 599 yards and seven touchdowns—becoming one of Josh Allen’s best breakaway targets.’

Vic Carucci: McDermott’s response to second-guessing shows he has grown as coach

‘“Even with that, that’s still the one that – I’m very open with you here – I still think about,” McDermott said. “Maybe I should have gone for it there. Fourth-and-3, I felt like if we could get it to fourth-and-2, fourth-and-1, I know for sure we would have went for it. So, maybe third down, sticking a run in there, getting that one or two yards (rather than Allen throwing incomplete for Stefon Diggs), we would have felt a little more comfortable going for it there. So, score came into play a little bit there.”’

Five takeaways from Sean McDermott’s season-ending news conference

‘“There’s always people that want to look at your team and maybe pull people off of your team, off your staff,” McDermott said. “That’s to be expected. I think both of those two (Frazier and Dorsey) are highly qualified and I have a lot of confidence in both of those two men. We’ll see what the future holds for both of them and we’ll go from there.”’

Bills receiver Stefon Diggs weighs in on painful AFC championship loss to Chiefs

‘”We were getting ready to close the locker room doors. I was getting ready to address the team and I got word that Josh Norman and Stef were still out there, so I wanted to go out there and bring them in,” head coach Sean McDermott said Tuesday during his end-of-season video news conference. “When I got to both of them, Stef was the first one that I got to, and he was emotional. He was visibly upset. So, listen, I can understand why he wanted to stay out there and watch that. I’ve been around this game, and those games enough, including the Super Bowl, where, I can tell you I don’t want to watch it anymore, because I know how hard it is to watch it. But you learn from it, and that’s part of what he needed to do to get closure and also learn from it. … I just wanted to be there for him as a teammate – nothing really more than that. Love him and care for him, whether it was Stef Diggs or the last man on our roster, I would have done the same thing.”‘

Bills sign 13 from practice squad to reserve/future contracts

‘A reserve/future contract guarantees a player a spot on a team’s roster, which expands from 53 to 90 players with the start of the league’s new year in March (it also prevents them from signing with another team before then). It contains all the regular rules as it pertains to minimum salaries for veterans, but does not take effect until the start of the league year, which for the 2021 season comes March 17.’