{"id":531203,"date":"2026-03-18T17:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T17:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/531203\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T17:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T17:18:08","slug":"c-j-gardner-johnson-having-champions-around-means-something","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/531203\/","title":{"rendered":"C.J. Gardner-Johnson: Having champions around means something"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Bills reacted to their latest failure to get over the hump in the playoffs by firing head coach Sean McDermott and their bid to finally break through has also included moves to bring in players like edge rusher Bradley Chubb, wide receiver DJ Moore and safety C.J. Gardner-Johnson. <\/p>\n<p>All three players have a track record of success in the NFL, but Gardner-Johnson is the only member of the trio who brings a Super Bowl ring with him to Buffalo. Gardner-Johnson was on the Eagles\u2019 Super Bowl LIX winners a couple of years ago and he believes that experience will be valuable to the Bills as they try for the first title in franchise history. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHaving champions around, not necessarily <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.buffalobills.com\/news\/surrounding-myself-with-superstars-safety-c-j-gardner-johnson-is-excited-to-bring-a-spark-to-the-buffalo-bills-defense\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">being older guys<\/a>, [but] having a champion around really means something,\u201d Gardner-Johnson said, via the team\u2019s website. \u201cIt gravitated [people to] you . . . bringing that experience in the room and when people ask, \u2018How does it feel?\u2019 We have that background to tell them and actually know what it takes to get to that level.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gardner-Johnson has bounced around the league often during his eight years in the NFL and he carries a reputation for being difficult to get along with at times, but odds are that he\u2019ll be a popular fellow in Buffalo if he can push the Bills to heights they haven\u2019t been able to reach during the Josh Allen era. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Bills reacted to their latest failure to get over the hump in the playoffs by firing head&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":531204,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-531203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=531203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/531204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}