‘The challenge now is sustaining the bar of success the three-time defending AFC East champs have established, while dealing with the constraints of a salary cap system, which failed to align with projected growth because of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the realities of their division and conference rivals getting better.’
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Sources: Bills agree with Tyler Bass on four-year extension
‘Bass has shown the ability to kick consistently despite the tough conditions that the lake wind and often lake-effect snow bring to Highmark Stadium. He also has had success at the end of the season, with his highest field goal accuracy percentages coming in December (89.5%) and January (100%). In his career, Bass, the first member of the Bills’ 2020 draft class to be extended, has missed only four fourth-quarter or overtime kicks (24-of-28), including the postseason, and he has made all five of his potential game-tying or go-ahead kicks in the final two minutes of regulation or overtime. He is the first player in Bills history to score 120-plus points in three seasons.’
Bills make Tyler Bass one of the NFL’s highest-paid kickers with four-year extension, per report
‘Bass was entering the final year of his rookie deal with the organization and is set to make $1.01 million base salary for the 2023 season. Now, he is one of the highest-paid kickers in the league.’
Report: Bills sign kicker Tyler Bass to a 4-year extension
‘Bass was drafted by the Bills in 2020 in the 6th round(188th overall) out of Georgia Southern and already holds a number of Bills records in just three seasons with the team. Most field goals attempted in a game(8), most field goals made in a game(6) and the most points scored by a Bill in a season(141 in 2020).’
Report: Bills and kicker Tyler Bass reach agreement on multi-year contract extension
‘Last season Bass was 27-31 on field goal attempts while going 48-50 on extra points. Over the course of his three-year career in Buffalo he’s made 85.6% of all his field goals. And last season alone, accounted for four game-winning field goals. Three in the regular season and one in the preseason against Indianapolis.’
Report: Bills will sign kicker Tyler Bass to 4-year extension
‘Bass has connected on 85.6% of his field goals and made 156 of 160 extra points over three seasons in Buffalo.’
Bills, kicker Tyler Bass agree on four-year extension
‘Tyler Bass signed a four-year contract extension worth as much as $21 million. A little more than $12 million of that is guaranteed.’
How Bills safety Micah Hyde continues to be instrumental on the field and in the community
‘”I think that we’ve always established a standard around here, just for not only our defense, but I just think internally into our safety room,” Hyde said. “We’ve always kind of had that chip on our shoulder. Guys just trying to prove themselves. So, we feel like it’s on us to set the standard and throughout the years, we continue to try to build off that … We’re going to bounce back this year and obviously have to stay healthy, and we added some depth so that’s good to see.”‘
Bills and No. 27 pick: Last two decades show teams more willing to stay put, move up than trade down
‘The Bills shouldn’t be in the business of trading players for picks unless somebody wants to take defensive tackle Ed Oliver and his $10.753 million salary off their hands. This could strictly be a pick-for-picks exercise for Beane, who has six selections, which would be the fewest for a draft during his tenure.’
Buffalo Bills announce five-year initiatives with American Heart Association
‘“Obviously the world saw what happened to Damar, but we knew what happened to Kim internally going back to June,” Raccuia said. “So, we knew that this initiative – and CPR awareness, AED access, and everything related to the American Heart Association and heart healthiness – was going to be a critical part of what we wanted to do as an organization.”’
Erik Brady: Joe Bock played in just one Bills game, but still wonders what might have been
‘Bock was a member of the so-called Replace-a-Bills, who played briefly for Buffalo during a 1987 strike by NFL players. He tells great stories about his one game, and many more about his long and winding road as a pro football journeyman. Some of these stories are Bills-adjacent: Bock was Scott Norwood’s long snapper for the USFL’s Birmingham Stallions in 1983, and one of Jim Kelly’s centers on the USFL’s Houston Gamblers in 1984. He last played football in 2006, at age 46, for his hometown Rochester Raiders, of the Great Lakes Indoor Football League.’
Bills’ Josh Allen says he needs to make changes to his game: ‘I can’t continue to do this’
‘”I know this sounds crazy, but I’m getting older,” Allen said, via the team’s website. “It’s like I can’t continue to do this. I know when I’m using my youth I feel like I can, but over the course of my career, I’m going to have to learn to adapt and change. And I’ve always had the mindset of I’ve been a football player first and a quarterback second, and at some point that’s going to have to switch. When that point is I don’t know, I guess I’ll let my body tell me.”‘
Upon Further Review, Damar Hamlin Should Return To NFL, But With An Asterisk
‘To translate, what happened to Hamlin was a fluke. Let him play. But here’s the asterisk . . . Let us also pray.’
Josh Allen ‘locked in’ on football as offseason workouts begin
‘”I think at this point, in my life, I’ve never been as focused or locked in in football as I am right now,” Allen said. “I’m very excited and looking forward to getting here with the guys, building that team camaraderie, having guys over, and just doing that piece of it. Because I think that’s such a huge piece of it — when you’re able to trust teammates inside and outside the facility.”‘
Top 5 things we learned from Bills GM Brandon Beane’s 2023 pre-draft press conference
‘”We’re going to take the best player,” Beane shared. “We really are. There’s going to be a good player there.”‘