How Bills reportedly really feel about being the featured ‘Hard Knocks: Training Camp’ staff

On Wednesday, the NFL showed that the Buffalo Bills would be the featured staff for this yr’s version of the “Hard Knocks: Training Camp” program. 

For a work revealed on Thursday, Bills reporter Tim Graham of The Athletic left little question that folks inside the group are not up to overjoyed with having to tolerate the “Hard Knocks” project main as much as the beginning of the 2025 common season. 

“The Buffalo Bills do not want to be on ‘Hard Knocks,'” Graham wrote. “They are not proud to be chosen for ‘Hard Knocks.’ They did not seek to be featured on ‘Hard Knocks.’ They loathe the idea of ‘Hard Knocks.’ Nobody from One Bills Drive told me this Wednesday because they didn’t have to. I’ve covered the entirety of this administration and have had myriad conversations with coach Sean McDermott and general manager Brandon Beane about the HBO show since they arrived eight years ago.”

It’s infrequently a secret that coaches, gamers and bosses are not looking for “Hard Knocks” crews filming practices, conferences and behind-the-scenes discussions that outsiders differently would not know had passed off. 

Back in the summertime of 2023, then-New York Jets head trainer Robert Saleh unsuccessfully campaigned for his membership to steer clear of the “Hard Knocks” project. Quarterback Aaron Rodgers later stated that the NFL pressured the Jets being at the program “down our throats,” and Gang Green reportedly denied HBO and NFL Films sure get entry to all the way through manufacturing of the display. 

More lately, the “Hard Knocks: Offseason with the New York Giants” program became Giants co-owner John Mara right into a punchline after digital camera crews filmed him admitting that he’d have “a tough time sleeping” if big name working again Saquon Barkley signed with the Philadelphia Eagles as a loose agent. Barkley did simply that during March 2024 after which helped the Eagles win the Super Bowl in his first season with the membership. 

A trade of eligibility laws left the Bills with out a possibility to say no being in this yr’s model of “Hard Knocks: Training Camp” after the present Buffalo regime fell to 0-4 in opposition to the Kansas City Chiefs in postseason play this previous January. Perhaps McDermott and his gamers will reply to this undesirable nuisance by way of going out in their strategy to lend a hand create one of the crucial dull seasons of “Hard Knocks” in an try to steer clear of distractions as they get ready for the 2025 marketing campaign.