{"id":47381,"date":"2025-08-05T16:10:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T16:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/47381\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T16:10:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T16:10:08","slug":"nfl-insider-hints-that-buffalo-bills-james-cook-extension-is-almost-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/47381\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL insider hints that Buffalo Bills, James Cook extension is almost done"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.buffalobills.com\/schedule\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Buffalo Bills<\/a> are gearing up for their first preseason game this Saturday against the New York Giants, but will continue to practice without star running back James Cook.<\/p>\n<p>Cook began his hold-in earlier this week, saying it was about &#8220;business.&#8221; And while many fans are over the entire saga, one NFL insider provides some optimism to the situation.<\/p>\n<p>Per <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DMRussini\/status\/1952746394365685997\" rel=\"nofollow\">Dianna Russini of\u00a0<\/a><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DMRussini\/status\/1952746394365685997\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Athletic<\/a>,\u00a0the Bills and Cook don&#8217;t appear to be far apart in terms of a deal, and this hold-in is more or less being used to get the deal finalized.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t get the sense the gap in negotiations between James Cook and the Bills is as large as other notable hold-ins around the league,&#8221; Russini posted on X. &#8220;Cook&#8217;s decision to sit out Bills practices is designed to get this deal across the finish line. We&#8217;ll see if the two sides can come to an agreement.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Should this be the case, it sounds as if a long-term deal could be announced soon for Cook and the Bills.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029Vakw2IH60eBZ4UO1Iz1b\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Follow The Sporting News on WhatsApp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Be sure to bookmark Buffalo Bills on The Sporting News for all the latest news, interviews, breakdowns, and more!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Buffalo Bills are gearing up for their first preseason game this Saturday against the New York Giants,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47382,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,514,82],"class_list":["post-47381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}