Mario Addison joins the Bills from the Panthers after four-straight seasons with at least nine sacks.
And even though Addison did have 9.5 sacks last season, after getting a taste of a Bills practice last offseason, he decided heading to Buffalo as a free agent would be a great idea a year later.
As a former Panther, you know the connections are there, in-house, already for Addison. But another things he recalled when talking to the Bills about signing with the team were the joint practices the Bills and Panthers had during the 2019 offseason.
The 32-year-old just simply remembered how fun it was being on a practice field with the Bills.
“I already kind of liked Buffalo from the get-go because we played against Buffalo last year in training camp,” Addison said on a conference call on Monday. “Everybody played with each other.”
“I liked competing against the O-line when we was in camp. Those guys were going hard… we was going hard, don’t nobody get mad at each other,” Addison added.
As Buffalo head coach Sean McDermott says: Iron sharpens iron.
But on his teammates he’ll be closer to, Addison likes what he sees about of the defensive side of things in Buffalo as well.
“I’ve been watching those guys. They got a swag to them. So, I’m going to bring my swag & we’re going to merge this thing together & we’re going to tear them up out there, baby,” Addison
A top-three unit? What’s not to like? Well, one could consider that Addison is now joining a rotation along the defensive line is something he wouldn’t like.
Case closed, though. Addison’s a team guy.
“I like everyone getting a chance to eat,” Addison said. “It’s not how many snaps you get, it’s what you do with the snaps.”
Along Buffalo’s defensive line, Addison, on paper, will likely get more of the snaps than others on the depth chart. One of his former teammates with the Colts, Jerry Hughes, will be on one end of the line, with Addison on the other. Currently it looks like AJ Epenesa will rotate in for those top-two, and perhaps Trent Murphy will do the same. Only time will tell with Murphy.
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