Buffalo Payments operating again James Cook dinner can carry the “verify, please” strategy via coaching camp due to his confidence stage an enormous payday is coming quickly.
“I imply, nevertheless it occurs, it is going to get completed. Wherever it occurs at,” Cook dinner stated Thursday after taking part within the first two days of exercises, opting to not maintain out whereas working towards a contract extension.
“We now have talks. … I imply, I deserve what I would like, I would like and it is going to finally occur,” Cook dinner stated.
Coming into the ultimate 12 months of his contract, the 25-year-old Cook dinner set a franchise file for dashing touchdowns in a single season with 16 in 2024. He has 2,638 dashing yards for the reason that Payments drafted him in 2022.
Basic supervisor Brandon Beane stated the Payments wish to be a crew that drafts, develops and rewards homegrown expertise. However the monetary issue is ever-present.
“Generally you possibly can’t get on the identical web page or generally you are making an attempt to suit it in,” Beane stated. “There’s instances guys have left right here that we actually wished. We simply could not make it work. However I can let you know, I am hopeful, after we’re sitting right here at subsequent 12 months’s coaching camp that James Cook dinner is on the market practising and nonetheless representing the crimson, white and blue.”
Cook dinner stated he owes solely himself, household and teammates. However he reported and is taking part in camp out of that obligation and to remind teammates he is able to go.
“It is my job,” Cook dinner stated. “I received to take part so I will not get fined and simply come out right here and simply present them that I am able to go and earn what I received to go get.”
Cook dinner can be topic to day by day fines for not reporting as a result of he is below contract. He stated “I like my cash” when requested if the fines had been a holdout deterrent.
Requested once more Thursday about his Instagram dwell submit underscoring his reference to a price ticket of “15 mill (per) 12 months,” Cook dinner stated he had no regrets about pinning that determine on social media.
“James is a aggressive dude. He is a stud. He is a good teammate. He desires to be right here,” Beane stated. “James suits Buffalo. However generally you possibly can’t get on the identical web page.”
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