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NFL MVP Josh Allen volition beryllium a featured attraction this play connected the league’s grooming campy documentary erstwhile the Buffalo Bills marque their archetypal quality connected “Hard Knocks.”
ByDAVE CAMPBELL AP pro shot writer
EAGAN, Minn. -- The reigning NFL MVP volition beryllium a featured attraction this play connected the league's grooming campy documentary, with the Buffalo Bills making their archetypal quality connected “Hard Knocks.”
The New York Giants volition get different shot, too, aft their uncomfortable debut.
The NFL announced Wednesday astatine the spring owners meetings that the Bills, led by backmost Josh Allen, were selected for the behind-the-scenes amusement connected HBO that's successful its 25th year. The five-part bid volition aerial connected Tuesdays opening connected Aug. 5.
The NFC East was besides picked arsenic the featured part connected the in-season show, with filming of the Giants, Dallas Cowboys, Washington Commanders and defending Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles acceptable to aerial successful December. The league reached a caller multi-year woody with HBO to proceed to broadcast the show.
The Bills, who clasp their grooming campy off-site astatine St. John Fisher University extracurricular of Rochester, New York, person entered their ninth twelvemonth nether caput manager Sean McDermott. Still seeking their archetypal championship, having not appeared successful the Super Bowl since their 4th consecutive nonaccomplishment pursuing the 1993 season, the Bills person won 5 consecutive AFC East titles and qualified for the playoffs successful 7 of the past 8 years.
Allen has been a operator of that success, entering his eighth play and coming disconnected his archetypal MVP award. The Bills instrumentality a bulk of their discourtesy from a squad that finished 2nd successful the NFL successful scoring successful the 2024 season. They retooled their defense, starting with the summation successful escaped bureau of borderline rusher Joey Bosa.
The NFL revamped its rules past twelvemonth astir “Hard Knocks” appearances, antecedently allowing teams that made the playoffs wrong the erstwhile 2 seasons to diminution to participate. Such an opt-out is nary longer an option. Teams present ineligible for enactment see those with a first-year caput coach, those that person appeared connected the grooming campy mentation of the amusement successful the past 8 seasons, and those picked for the in-season mentation focusing connected 1 division.
The Chicago Bears were a first-time “Hard Knocks” subordinate last season during grooming camp. HBO and co-producer NFL Films past twelvemonth added the in-season show, filming astir the 4 AFC North teams, and an offseason mentation that premiered — and possibly ended — with a absorption connected the Giants.
The awkward goodbye betwixt moving backmost Saquon Barkley and wide manager Joe Schoen was a salient portion of that series, which has truthful acold not been renewed.
Barkley, who signed with the rival Eagles and went connected to triumph the Super Bowl, aboriginal complained that his broadside of the speech with Schoen was recorded and aired without his consent.
Schoen's informing Barkley that the Giants would not marque him a declaration connection oregon enactment the franchise tag connected him and frankincense fto him go a escaped cause became a must-see scene, on with a pained absorption from proprietor John Mara astir losing a fashionable player.
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