When thinking of the top free-agent destinations, most people think of going to sunny weather or to a championship caliber squad. Often left from both of those categories are the Buffalo Bills.

Recently, Adam Schein of NFL.com gave a list of nine desirable destinations for free agents this offseason. While the list was limited to teams that didn’t make the NFL playoffs, the young and talented team should be well on their way to becoming one of the league’s most coveted landing spots for free agents. Here’s why.

Since the inception of the Bills in 1960, the team has been known as a cheap, small market franchise. Late-owner Ralph Wilson Jr. would often opt for younger, cheaper talent than pay the big bucks.

No longer scared to spend

When new ownership took over in 2014, those once shallow pockets became deep. The team traded for running back LeSean McCoy and then quickly signed him to a $40 million deal. For McCoy, he was at first upset about coming to Buffalo. He was uprooted from his home state of Pennsylvania and sent somewhere that was in the mist of the NFL’s longest playoff drought. For McCoy now, he embraces Western New York.

For the players currently on the team, most didn’t realize that snow only happens for part of the season in the Queen City. Typically, the first four or five home games are met with beautiful weather. Maybe only three or four games during the season encounter snow but it’s in those moments that the Bills and their fans thrive.

Blue collar fans connect with like-minded players

What’s stuck with the city of Buffalo and the Western New York area since the beginning of time is their blue collar attitude. They work hard for their pay and often spend a big chunk of it on season tickets. They’re grinders and their football team is no different. It’s something that attracts the heartiest of football players and continues to.

Names like Richie Incognito and Lorenzo Alexander define the identity of the Bills. They’re players who weren’t apart of other team’s equation and got a chance to revive their name when they came to Buffalo.

When the Bills named Sean McDermott their head coach last year, you would have thought he was raised in the Queen City. He has a motivated mentality with a sharp attention to detail.