{"id":31067,"date":"2026-03-13T00:23:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T00:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/31067\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T00:23:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T00:23:18","slug":"chubb-and-moore-excited-to-join-allen-and-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/31067\/","title":{"rendered":"Chubb and Moore excited to join Allen and Bills"},"content":{"rendered":"

ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) \u2014 Edge rusher Bradley Chubb faced the Bills enough during his three-plus seasons in Miami to have several reasons to want to sign with Buffalo.<\/p>\n

The team has been a consistent winner. And it has Josh Allen<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m trying to win. I\u2019m going to go through a season where I\u2019m not frustrated every Monday coming into the building and upset, like, \u2018Hey, man, we should have did this. We should\u2019ve did that,\u2019\u201d Chubb said during a Zoom call Thursday after signing his three-year contract with Buffalo<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cPlaying this team for three-and-a-half years, you see that they know how to win. They believe in themselves to win,\u201d he added, before referring to Allen by his jersey number. \u201cAnd we got a guy like 17 running the show. It\u2019s hard to feel like you\u2019re not going to win, you know?\u201d<\/p>\n

Chubb knows. And so does Buffalo\u2019s other major offseason addition, receiver D.J. Moore, who was acquired in a trade with Chicago<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s a field general,\u201d Moore said of Allen. \u201cYou see him out there trying to conduct things, and the way he does it is successful. And I just want to be part of that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Moore and Chubb represent upgrades at key positions<\/p>\n

Limited as the Bills were by the salary cap, general manager Brandon Beane addressed two key needs for a team in transition following coach Sean McDermott\u2019s firing in January<\/a>. Buffalo still has the core of a group that\u2019s reached the playoffs in seven consecutive seasons.<\/p>\n

The 28-year-old Moore has topped 1,100 yards receiving in four of his eight seasons, and upgrades a group of receivers that had difficulty getting open last year.<\/p>\n

The 29-year-old Chubb, when healthy, has the potential to muscle up Buffalo\u2019s middling pass rush for new head coach Joe Brady and new defensive coordinator Jim Leonhard<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Chubb is familiar enough with Buffalo to know the team\u2019s shortcomings.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s the Bills\u2019 failure to reach the Super Bowl, which led to McDermott\u2019s firing. And there\u2019s also the perception that Buffalo leans too much on Allen.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel like the talk in the past was the offense go out there and put up how many points, and the defense don\u2019t lose the game,\u201d Chubb said. \u201cNow we\u2019re trying to be aggressive on defense and set the tone. And I feel like that\u2019s what they brought me here to do, set the tone.\u201d<\/p>\n

Both players hope to produce big numbers<\/p>\n

Chubb has a history of injuries. He\u2019s played 10 or more games in a season just four times and missed all of 2024 with a torn knee ligament.<\/p>\n

He said it took him about a fifth of the way through last season to feel fully healthy. He finished with 8 1\/2 sacks.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know what I can do. I know what I have left in the tank,\u201d said Chubb, who hopes to exceed the career-best 12 sacks he had as a rookie in 2018 with Denver.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel I\u2019m going to hit my stride and this is going to be the perfect place to do it,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Moore is eager to reconnect with Brady, who was the Panthers\u2019 offensive coordinator during two of the receiver\u2019s more productive seasons in Carolina.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe said, \u2018Get ready. Get ready to run,\u2019\u201d Moore said of his first conversation with Brady in Buffalo. \u201cThat\u2019s what he told me when I was in Carolina, so he told me the same thing now. So I\u2019m just ready for it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Though Moore\u2019s production dropped in his final year in Chicago, he left the Bears on a high note by making his NFL playoff debut. Chicago beat Green Bay in the wild-card round before losing to the Los Angeles Rams.<\/p>\n

\u201cI look forward to getting back there with the Bills and going further,\u201d Moore said.<\/p>\n

Gardner-Johnson agrees to 1-year contract<\/p>\n

The Bills agreed to sign safety C.J. Gardner-Johnson to a one-year contract, his agent Kevin Conner said Thursday. Gardner-Johnson played three games with Houston last season, his fifth team in seven years. <\/p>\n

He projects to fill a depth need, though the Bills have an opening after releasing starter Taylor Rapp.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP NFL: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nfl<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) \u2014 Edge rusher Bradley Chubb faced the Bills enough during his three-plus seasons in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30386,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[131],"tags":[7200,18696,18547,18281,18693,7983,240,18358,3917,81,18691,8504,18362,18365,18672,18692,2521,90,18363,18364,307,18695,18694],"class_list":{"0":"post-31067","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chubb","8":"tag-bradley-chubb","9":"tag-brandon-beane","10":"tag-buffalo","11":"tag-buffalo-bills","12":"tag-c-j-gardner-johnson","13":"tag-chicago","14":"tag-chubb","15":"tag-fl-state-wire","16":"tag-florida","17":"tag-football","18":"tag-il-state-wire","19":"tag-illinois","20":"tag-jim-leonhard","21":"tag-joe-brady","22":"tag-josh-allen","23":"tag-kevin-conner","24":"tag-new-york","25":"tag-nfl","26":"tag-nfl-football","27":"tag-sean-mcdermott","28":"tag-sports","29":"tag-sports-transactions","30":"tag-taylor-rapp"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116219019409473831","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}