FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — Bill Belichick won’t spend any time on the golf course when the New England Patriots travel to The Greenbrier for joint practice sessions with the New Orleans Saints later this week.

For the fourth straight year, the Patriots and Saints will participate in two joint practices on Wednesday and Thursday at the luxury resort in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia.

“We have quite a bit to do,” the Patriots coach said before Monday’s practice. “It’s a big trip for us — both for our team, but we also have to try to keep staying ahead of the things that will be coming up pretty quickly. I don’t think this will be a big golf weekend, nor does it need to be.”

Belichick’s primary focus in West Virginia will be the practices with the Saints, but he is also looking ahead at the Patriots’ upcoming opponents.

“Really now is the time of year when a lot of times you’re looking at three, four, five different teams,” Belichick said. “New Orleans, getting ahead on Carolina, the Giants, Pittsburgh, obviously — teams in the early part of the schedule just to kind of start to get a feel for them.”

For the players, the joint practices present an opportunity to face a higher level of competition.

“It’s just good to go versus another opponent,” All-Pro tight end Rob Gronkowski said. “You get great competition going against your defense every single day, but it’s always good to switch up opponents because every single week you’re definitely playing a new opponent.”

“There’s going to be great competition down there,” offensive lineman Nate Solder said. “We’re just going to work hard and get as much out of it as we can.”

Bills

PITTSFORD, N.Y. (AP) — A person familiar with the decision says the Buffalo Bills have agreed to a contract with free-agent linebacker

Quentin Groves.

The person spoke Monday night on condition of anonymity because the Bills have not announced the move. ESPN first reported the agreement.

Groves is a seven-year journeyman who had three starts in 16 games with Tennessee last season. Groves was selected by Jacksonville in the second round of the 2008 draft and spent two seasons playing for the Jaguars. He also has played for Oakland, Arizona and Cleveland, and has 32 starts in 100 career games.

The Bills suddenly have several holes to fill on defense after tackle Jarius Wynn and linebacker Ty Powell sustained potentially season-ending knee injuries over the past four days.

NFL L.A.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Construction of an NFL stadium in the Los Angeles area could come with another change: a possible shift in division for the Oakland Raiders or the San Diego Chargers.

The teams have proposed a shared $1.7 billion stadium in the city of Carson — one of two stadium proposals being considered by the NFL near Los Angeles that could bring professional football back to the region after a two-decade absence.

Carmen Policy, a former San Francisco 49ers executive who was hired to help oversee the Carson project, said Monday that the teams have agreed to shift divisions, if necessary, to make the project acceptable to the league.

The Chargers and Raiders are rivals in the AFC West, which could make game scheduling and other issues difficult in a shared stadium.

The teams have made clear to the league and NFL owners that “you send us to LA and you’ll make the decision as to who plays in what conference or division,” Policy told reporters after detailing stadium plans for business leaders and a sports group at an event in downtown Los Angeles.

“There are some very interesting scenarios, depending on how all this turns out,” Policy said.

He said the teams recognized long ago there could be potential scheduling conflicts within a shared stadium in Carson.