“If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.” It’s a phrase said to children by their parents the first time they skin their knee riding a bike. It’s repeated when they don’t make the cut for the school basketball team and again when they don't win the spelling bee.
Bob and Cindy Beane must have said it to their son Brandon a time or two, because he believes in it when it comes to the Buffalo Bills’ defensive line.
When he arrived after the draft in 2017, general manager Brandon Beane looked at a Buffalo defensive line made up of Shaq Lawson, Kyle Williams, Adolphus Washington, Jerry Hughes, Eddie Yarbrough, Cap Capi, Ryan Davis, Rickey Hatley, and Beane’s only defensive line addition of 2017: Cedric Thorton.