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Orchard park, ni – eight days after James Cook began in the middle of his contract disputes with Buffalo Bills – The first such action during the General Manager of Brandon Beanne’s mandate – Cook was simply on the field with his teammates, in uniform.
Immediately before his first return, coach Sean McDermott gave cooking to the fist. The hook continued to participate in individual and team drills, because it would normally be. The cameras and eyes followed his every move.
Later that night, around 23:00, his four-year extension was done. The next morning was signed as a chef, a man of several words, began to get emotionally as he contracted his signature. He wiped his eyes as he finished signing, then put on sunglasses and erased his face again before he set. He took off Beanne and McDermott.
While running out in practice, the team gave him applause.
Cook is part of the draft class 2022. year who saw the four of its eight members – and the Corner Christian Benfordwide receiver Khalil Shakir and Linebacker Terrel Bernard – Receive four years of expansion of this offseason, as in 2021. Years of the defensive end of the first round Greg Rousseau.
“The guys who entered me, we all rewarded,” said the chef after signing his agreement. “Now it’s time to go to play football and show why we belong here.”
The first test is a rematch with a division with Baltimore Ravens Sunday (20:20 ET, NBC).
The accounts started 2024. Offseason by disassembling key veterans from their current success that includes five real AFC Eastern titles. These moves poured several 2025 enlargements, connecting five drafts of choosing to the organization until 2029. In addition to rewarding the franchise Josh Allen with one’s own restructuring of the contract. As the last year in Buffalo’s Higwarium Stadium (or as it is still names of fans: “Ralph”), new basic group group gatherings around Allen as it strives to keep success for years maintain.
There There was a question Tags come in the 2024 season. Years. Three many years of Captain Team were cut After 2023. ended and a wide receiver Stefon Diggs It’s been trading soon.
The bills relied on new leaders and a new offensive room without a traditional number of 1 receiver. They set off to set franchise records in points (525) and touchdowns (65). The team ended 13-4, undefeated at home and lost in AFC Championship.
“(Staff moving) last year, I wouldn’t say that he reseted, but helped us to do some things that you need to look like on the road and who was in March,” Beane said. “And to make sure we didn’t do some of those things last year, it would be very hard definitely to keep at least the ones we’ve ever kept.”
The statements and trade of Digg helped that the team preserve the necessary room from the cap, upwards of 45 million dollars, that it could use to plan for the future. The door is open for players like Shakir, whose goals more than doubles from 2023. Years (45) to 2024. (100).
The statements also reduced the number of team captains from eight to two, and Bernard represented the defense together with Allen for a criminal offense; Both were selected this year.
Bernard made that jump after making his leg back and then missing the entire training camp and taken before taking the initial role in 2023. Years.
“(Being some other players can look) What I’m trying to do since I’m here,” Bernard said. “So that it has it, ask it as an example and to be some kind of moments that other guys can look, it’s a big deal for me and I really don’t take it easy.”
He and Allen now serve as an example of younger players that the organization likes to reward drafts of choosing and players who want to build around.
“Development where we have them where the previous one for extension is really fun to watch,” McDedmott said. “And just reflecting with some young players … If I met, talking about some of these guys years ago, and now they are on their other contracts, and I think it is one of the joys of coaching.”
Shakir was The first great extension signed this offseason, completed during the NFL combine in February. What made it – a promising receiver of the groove that led the team in the courtyards, receptions and goals and was third among all broad receivers in the courtyards after receipt (7.9) – you want to sign again without market-free tests?
“I play with the best football player in the league – Josh Allen,” Shakir Espn said.
He added that the organization leads from the top to the bottom is important for him: “It’s beautiful they found it here. I wanted to understand the way I did it and stay here.”
Bernard echoed that the highest salary through the Free Agency was not his top priority, something that expressed his agent on the eve of negotiations. The focus for him was to make contracts.
“Somehow happened outside just because I wasn’t trying to get something crazy,” Bernard said. “I just wanted to make sure the future was locked and I would be here for a while.”
The cruel situation was different. He kept firmly in his belief that he deserved to be paid as one of the best endless back in the league. After initial talks in the spring at the time when his teammates were completed, the accounts and cooking team were unable to agree to the conditions, and the accounts decided to decide that issue to the training camp. The decision of the chef to stop exercising after eight practices was “to protect and just make things, so I won’t think about it and think about it and I just play with a clear mind,” he said.
Finally, he signed relatively united in accordance with the average annual salary ($ 11.5 million), and a second in the total value ($ 46 million), but part of what negotiations again initiated that the negotiations went to the exercise field again. Less than 24 hours after he evened in the field in uniform, it was given a long-awaited salary.
“Four Super The containers. “
It is the significance of a four-year offer that players signed, Benford said, with a joke smile on the face.
Bernard didn’t want to become bravely hard, but he mentioned it was a goal.
Expenditures on accounts start with Allen. Just another account has broken the ESPN list Top 100 Players Departure of the 2025 season – left-handed Dion Davkinswho even noticed Thursday that the team has no names that “screams from paper some of the Face Line A-List”. Buffalo accounts to their recent expansion signals, along with the upper drafts, like the narrow ends Dalton Kincaid and a wide receiver Keon Colemanto climb the next level.
One player who attracts attention in the season is Benford, who had a very promising camp as an angular angle team, and could be placed for a big season. Tre’odlieous whiteOne of the releases since last year, returned, set up to be no. 2 Corner information when it is healthy as a Rookie Maxwell Hairdresser is at least four weeks on injured reserves with LCL chest.
But Bagen and McDermott clearly gave that five players were expanded outside Allen, continuing to develop is important.
“I don’t think any of these players we extended hit your ceiling,” Beane said. “… We’re looking for these guys to keep climbing like players in their positions. But you also want your room with a cupboard, you want to be guys who respected their teammates and were rewarded.”
The chef is far from the best season of his career, doubling his careers by double 18 2024. Years. Would like to improve as a gap and blocker hunter, but the team will use it as part of rotation to be part of rotation to keep it You Johnson – To whom he believes on the third drops – and Rai Davis involved. Allen pointed out the cook when he asked Wednesday about the player who could have the interruption season.
“Khalil, that’s my boyfriend. He was so good for the last few years. He will still be better,” Allen said. “And then Greg and TB, TB is obvious that the captain of our defense are also all in the right way, in the classroom to the training room, they are on the very beginning of the day, before they are at the very beginning of the day.”
Rousseau reduces eight-case-careful bags, but it must show even more to help a defensive line to take a step forward. Bernard had a minor spraying last season (down 6.5 bags in one bag, 10 bars for a loss of up to five), but McDedmott noticed that he was trying to do much that he had difficulty stronger 2023. Years and after the captain. Shakir is a good candidate who will repeat as a team’s leading receiver.
“There is still a runway in front of these guys to continue to develop,” McDermott said. “Good players get shiny, great players become elite, isn’t it? That’s what’s left for these guys.”
