asking<\/a> $15 million per year on an extension. He will not get that money from his current team. The Bills are not going to come anywhere close to that number.<\/p>\nThey are at a standoff with no compromise in sight. It could eventually lead the organization to move on.<\/p>\n
In the meantime, Cook is traveling throughout upstate New York for a series of youth football camps. He held three different camps in Rochester, Buffalo and Albany.<\/p>\n
According to multiple parents whose children were in attendance, James Cook was not friendly. Nor did he act like he wanted to be there. A woman by the name of Heather Ann claims he showed up late, barely cracked a smile and did not participate in the scheduled (paid) meet and greet.<\/p>\n
Heather followed up to further explain what happened.<\/p>\n
My kids do free camps all the time and local ones we pay for- we specifically went to this one because they wanted to MEET James Cook as they are Bills fans! Well James Cook is NOT a friendly, fan loving person that is for sure! I did reach out to the woman who runs the flex work camps as they are the people that hosted it and she is NOT happy. James Cook charges 20k per 3 hours! Absurd<\/p>\n
\u2013 @heather_ann2022 \/ TikTok<\/p>\n
Other parents echoed her frustrations.<\/p>\n
James Cook fans were disappointed.<\/p>\n
The people of Buffalo were bummed to hear about Cook\u2019s alleged attitude.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy friend took her 10-year-old son to his camp on Tuesday. Her son said he was rude and acted like he didn\u2019t even want to be there. One point told child he was \u2018asking too many questions.\u2019 Not cool\u2026 Bills players are always great with kids! James Cook you should be ashamed of yourself. As a long time Bills fan I am so disappointed in him and his behavior,\u201d commented ame_buzz.<\/p>\n
Apparently this has been a reoccurring issue over the past few years.<\/p>\n
\u201cYeah took my son last year and never again. He was rude no enthusiasm. We skipped this year,\u201d said Heaven.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe were just at the Rochester one yesterday. He walked out the same but we were told he is not a talker. He isn\u2019t an interaction type,\u201d added @hockeyteachermomma54.<\/p>\n
Heather, the original poster, also shared a conversation she had with another woman via text.<\/p>\n
Someone said you seem tired because he kept stretching like he just woke up and he goes look at the camera and take a picture or something. One kid kept asking him questions and saying did you see me at your game and he\u2019s like stop asking me questions.<\/p>\n
\u2014 Anonymous parent via @heather_ann2022 \/ TikTok<\/p>\n
This is the second time someone mentioned the question rejection so there must be some truth to it.<\/p>\n
More videos from camp emerge.<\/p>\n
To be fair to James Cook, he did make one camper\u2019s day by gifting him with his beanie. That was cool.<\/p>\n
Unfortunately, he did not look very excited to be there in other videos from the three different camps\u2014 even though he did participate in at least one of the meet and greets.<\/p>\n
I did not attend James Cook\u2019s football camp nor do I know anyone who did. I can only go off of what people said about their experience online, which may or may not be the full truth. But it does not reflect well on the NFL running back to have multiple people complain. It is even more of a bad look for all of this to be going on during his contract negotiation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a9 Tina MacIntyre-Yee\/Democrat and Chronicle \/ USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images Audio By Carbonatix James Cook is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199268,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2048],"tags":[215,214,53,2086,7,3027,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-199267","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-buffalo-bills","8":"tag-bills","9":"tag-buffalo","10":"tag-buffalo-bills","11":"tag-buffalobills","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-james-cook","14":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114835681801799323","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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