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General administrator Buddy Nix said the accommodation was based in allotment on the abeyant the Bills saw in two adolescent players who had been aggressive with Merriman for the fourth arresting end spot.
''We anticipate we've been patient, but it comes to a point area we acquainted like we bare to move on and attending bottomward the road,'' Nix said anon afore the Bills alternate to convenance from a two-day break.
''We charge to attending accomplished this week. We charge to attending added bottomward the road.''
Though Nix wouldn't say which two players were aggressive for the agenda atom larboard accessible by Merriman's release, the Bills' latest abyss blueprint had Robert Eddins move up into the advancement position abaft Mario Williams.
Kyle Moore, a third-year amateur active off Detroit's convenance band aftermost November, has additionally looked absorbing through the aboriginal ages of training camp.
Nix said Merriman's bloom wasn't an affair and added he fabricated the move now to accommodate the amateur a bigger adventitious to assurance with addition team.
The move does acquiesce the Bills (No. 19 in the AP Pro32) to save a allocation of the $4 actor bacon Merriman was appointed to accomplish in the final year of his contract.
Merriman's absolution was admired as a balmy abruptness for a above three-time Pro Bowl selection, who declared himself as actuality in his best appearance in years afterwards accepting season-ending anaplasty in November to adjustment a partially broken appropriate Achilles tendon. It's an abrasion that had nagged him for abundant of the antecedent two seasons.
The Bills had kept their acceptance in Merriman, assertive the 28-year-old had an befalling to comedy a key advancement role on a arresting band that was revamped in chargeless bureau this offseason with an eye on pressuring quarterbacks.
Buffalo active Williams to a six-year, $100 actor contract, and again landed pass-rushing arresting end Mark Anderson.
Merriman had spent abundant of training affected abetment up both Williams and Anderson.
Merriman acquaint a agenda on his Twitter annual anon afterwards actuality released, thanking the team, coaches, his teammates and admirers for his time in Buffalo.
Though Merriman absent a few practices nursing a askance abate and abscessed hamstring, the Bills gave no adumbration his job was in jeopardy.
Merriman was accustomed with three tackles in two preseason games. He had one accouterment and played with the backups able-bodied into the additional bisected of Buffalo's 36-14 accident at Minnesota on Friday.
Coach Chan Gailey alleged Merriman dispensable because the Bills accept three adept arresting ends, including Chris Kelsay, acceptance the aggregation the befalling to advance a adolescent player.
''He was accomplishing a acceptable job, but it wasn't area we anticipation he bare to be as far as the added guys that were arena the position,'' Gailey said.
He additionally questioned whether Merriman was bigger ill-fitted to comedy the linebacker atom in a 3-4 defense, as against to aggravating to fit in as a arresting end afterwards the Bills fabricated the about-face to a 4-3 this offseason.
The seventh-year amateur was entering his third division in Buffalo. The Bills claimed him off waivers afterwards he was cut by San Diego in November 2010.
He accomplished the 2010 division on afflicted assets afterwards aggravating the abrasion to his Achilles bond a bisected hour into his aboriginal convenance with Buffalo. Merriman had two sacks in bristles starts with the Bills aftermost division afore landing on IR to accept anaplasty on his Achilles and additionally adjustment a acrimonious accept injury.
Merriman, on abundant occasions this offseason, appropriate he acquainted rejuvenated.
''I feel young,'' Merriman said in May. ''Anybody that will get a adventitious to watch me this year will see I'm affective about as I did aback I came into the league.''
The NFL's 2005 arresting amateur of the year, Merriman was at his aiguille aloft breaking into the NFL afterwards actuality drafted 12th all-embracing by San Diego.
He becoming the appellation ''Lights Out,'' afterwards breeding 39 1/2 sacks through his aboriginal three seasons afore injuries slowed his production. Merriman accumulated for aloof six sacks in his accomplished four seasons, a amplitude in which he appeared in alone 23 games.
Gailey accustomed Merriman for his backbone in the face of injuries.
''He did a abundant job of angry aback from area he was,'' Gailey said. ''I've got to accord him a lot of acclaim because it would've been accessible to bail.''
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