Cook pulled the unorthodox move of beginning his hold-in after fully practicing for over a week, declaring it “business”, leading the Bills to issue a rare-for-them “no comment” as they were leaving the practice field, and now they’re in an incredibly delicate situation.

Cook can fairly argue that he deserves to be paid more than his L.A. counterpart. But it's hard to argue that he deserves to be paid some $4 million more per year; the gap between the two players simply isn't big enough, even if Cook remains a critical part of the Bills offense.