Creating Brandon Beane’s Offseason To-Do List to UPGRADE Buffalo Bills’ Roster Around Josh Allen

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🗓️ 17 February 2026

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Buffalo Bills enter a pivotal offseason with pressing roster holes—can Brandon Beane assemble a championship-caliber squad around Josh Allen? From a critical need for an impact wide receiver and starting-caliber additions at center, linebacker, and safety, the team faces its biggest to-do list in years. Joe Marino breaks down position-by-position priorities, including creating $40+ million in cap space, upgrading at edge rusher, and formulating a plan for talented playmakers like Khalil Shakir and Dalton Kincaid. Key talking points include finding true vertical threats, addressing both offensive and defensive line depth, and the potential release of veterans like Curtis Samuel and Taylor Rapp. Special teams needs and defensive scheme shifts under Jim Leonhard also factor into the offseason roadmap. Can Buffalo fill these gaps and maintain contender status in the AFC?

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0:00.0	What does Brandon Bean have to get figured out this season?
0:03.8	I'm delivering his to-do list today on Locked on Bills.
0:13.2	You are Locked on Bills, your daily Buffalo Bills podcast.
0:18.6	Part of the Locked on Podcast Network, your team every day.
0:24.7	What's up, Bill's Mafia?
0:26.5	It's Joe Marino, author of the Heard Mentality Substack, co-host of the Lockdown
0:31.4	NFL Scouting podcast, co-hosts of the NFL First Read podcast, and I'm your host of
0:36.4	Locked on Bills.
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0:49.0	everydayers. You know who you are. Those of you who never miss a single episode. I appreciate
0:54.1	you all being here very, very much.
0:56.5	Well, folks, welcome in.
0:58.4	It's time to deliver Brandon Bean's offseason to do list.
1:03.4	I want to go through each position and tell you specifically what Brandon Bean has to get done.
1:09.9	And we've spent the last couple weeks really reviewing and assessing this roster.
1:14.8	And it really culminates with this conversation that will really identify what's got to happen with this roster.
1:21.5	Now, of course, step one is creating salary cap space. I hope that you will scroll back a couple of episodes and listen to me,
1:29.1	break down the different possibilities that exist for the salary cap where I don't think it's
1:35.3	difficult at all to create 40 plus million dollars of functional cap space to work with,
1:41.6	to use on this roster and improve this roster. So that's step one. And
1:47.7	keep that in mind as we go through this. This is going to feel heavy. This is going to feel like
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