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Not how it works, in the real world. Madden maybe.

I’m rather sure these players know exactly what the coaches are thinking of them. There is not much beating around the bush with value and projections. Your thoughts might be true as a way to send a message, but it is not the primary way. They are directly spoken with about what they’re doing well, what they need to do better, more of, etc.

Chernobyl was unbelievably good. But I would only watch 1 episode a week, the way shows are intended to be watched. It's too grim to binge. Plus there's only 5 episodes so if you start this week you'll count down to the NFL season 😁 Another HBO show I'll mention that no one else brought up is Nathan Fielder's The Rehearsal. I have no clue if anybody other than me has watched it and I don't even know how to explain what it is. Best description I can give is extreme social experiments conducted on real people by an evil genius. But that's underselling it. Your jaw will regularly be on the floor.

Didn’t like Bookie. Ballers was fun but not on my Mt Rushmore Good call on True Detective (only Season 1) Didn’t like Westwood as much as others but it was solid.

Im not advocating to dump him. However he is not a top 3 rb and should not be paid as such. Another couple of seasons with last years production is a different matter. But the body of work is simply not there yet. I’m sure beane is not happy with his antics either. If he continues on this path and the bills offer a similar contract commensurate to Williams, and he refuses a fair offer, I would not be shocked if he is moved. I would take a prime Fred Jackson, marshawn lynch, or lesean McCoy over him. But that’s just me.

We have 3 mods faster than Keon Coleman

The first season of GOT was different. By the start of season 4 it was dang good.

One of the greatest Simpsons episodes

When I search Max all that comes up is Hard Knocks with AFC North and Hard Knocks with the Bears.

Awesome, thank you!

It would be stupid for anyone to suggest it’s entirely Allen, but it’s not stupid to point out Allen is working with less talent than the other 3 elite QBs he's often compared to. It really was a special year on offense last season.

I hear Bills fans say "We need to get Josh more weapons! He cant do it all himself!" but then want to let our one actual weapon walk. And what better way to support your QB than with a running game that is an actual threat to take it to the house each and every play, so Safeties CANT cheat up?

FFS, this thread sure went off the rails.

Yep! Once it “goes live” you can watch it whenever in tonality

50% of snaps but touches the ball more than anyone (outside of QB and Center). Since we're talking about snaps, touches, and production... Cook had 207 carries and 32 receptions. He had the ball 239 times. He accounted for 1267 yards and 18 TDs. Shakir, who just got $15M/yr, and just had his best year yet, had 78 total touches, 825 yds, and 4 TDs. Roughly 1/3 Cook's total production depending how you want to look at it. Rousseau, who just got $20M/yr is on a regular rotation. Different positions, sure. But Shakir doesnt contribute even HALF of what Cook does to the offense. So if we're justifying numbers based on snaps, touches, and productivity, Cook should be the 2nd highest paid on Offense.

It is exactly this. A lot of people are undervaluing Cook because they don't want to pay a running back. I don't really want to pay a running back either. I want them to find a way to get explosive passing game weapons in here and pay those guys. If we'd traded for DK this wouldn't even be a conversation, you let Cook walk. But if they are not gonna find those types of passing game weapons then letting Cook walk and replacing him with Davis just makes this offense significantly less explosive again and takes away a playmaker at a time when we should be trying to get more explosive and give Josh more playmakers.

Cook will sign for an 11.5-12 mil/yr AAV for 3 years. This is all posturing

This is a very fair take. I think what @dave mcbride and myself were trying to say previously in this thread was, it's a bit crazy that people think he just straight up "sucks" or is even "mediocre". I think your take on Tua is spot on

So alpha I think in Allen rookie year he said " I can't throw the ball down the field and catch it also" it is a team game.

Tua is a good dude and a good QB. He’s not a very good or great QB. He does not elevate the play of those around him which great QB’s (Josh, Mahomes) do. It’s well known what his limitations are - off script plays, throwing deep outside the numbers, so good teams take away his first read and clog the middle. It’s not that complicated, and a lot of teams don’t have the talent to do that. If McDaniel stuck to the run a lot more and Miami invested in their O-line instead of paying bajillions to wide outs and washed up CBs they’d be a better team. McDaniel can’t help himself with the play calling and their GM is an outright disaster and must have pics of Roth with a goat because there is no reason for him to still be employed.

Please read. The cut off text: 1. It should be emphasized that it began, more or less, as a political smear campaign, designed for electoral advantage, that was then co-opted into a full blown information operation against the duly elected President and the American people. Shouting “They wanted to throw Trump in jail from the very beginning!” is just rejected out of hand, as it’s too jarring to their worldview. When they can be shown that what started as little white lies and insinuations were then built upon with bigger and more dangerous lies that eventually resulted in massive domestic and foreign crises with longterm ramifications, they can begin to understand how important it still is for accountability and historical accuracy. 2. The smear was co-opted into a full blown operation by Obama officials, intelligence agencies, and the mainstream media. They all knew from the very beginning that it wasn’t a situation of Trump secretly receiving orders from Putin himself, but in their zeal to support Hillary, and their horror that Trump’s message of calling them “fake news” was actually resounding with the American public, they were hand in hand a driving force behind kneecapping the President. When they claimed his joke about Russia finding Hillary’s emails was evidence of collusion, it was originally intended to maybe sway some low information voters from voting R to voting D. But when they saw the opportunity to partner with dirty swamp creatures to heighten the narrative to “existential” and even “criminal” levels, they didn’t even think twice.

Certainly not you and other level-headed posters/commenters. But I see Bills fans absolutely trashing Cook on reddit and twitter, and even some here. He made ONE comment (not post, COMMENT) on Social Media and you'd think he killed a baby at the 50 yard line. To the last line, all good. I've said before, I totally understand the general philosophy of not paying RBs. But you also wouldnt pretend Bijan or Gibbs are bad players in order to justify not paying them. A looooong time ago, right around when Beane came on board and we were discussing strategies of building a team I even said something along the lines of "the 2nd round is the sweet spot for RBs (thinking of Thurman and some others). Take a RB in the 2nd, use him for 4 years, then take another RB in the 2nd". However, that was predicated on hitting on a lot of other draft picks too. Unfortunately, with Beane's track record on 1st and 2nd round picks, they are too valuable to cycle guys out like that. If he had hit on just a couple of others (give me Justin Simmons and AJBrown/Metcalf in 2019), then I'd be more inclined to just let him walk. But we arent paying any WRs, and it doesnt look like we plan to. There arent many (any) other big threats on Offense. So might as well throw some money at the one skills position talent we do have.

The bold part is the key. And Beane alluded to it. I read some where that Matthew Leist (actually a Syracuse grad), representing James Cook, represented his brother as well and no one else (up to a year ago) and orchestrated a successful hold out for Dalvin James against the Vikings. Who knows maybe this guys wants to show the world he can get "you a contract above the market value."

That's been my stance all along. In a vacuum I don't like the idea of giving a big multi-year extension to a RB. But the opportunity cost just isn't that bad for us. If for example we had traded for DK Metcalf and extended him I would have accepted losing Cook as a necessary consequence. Since this regime clearly just isn't going to go that route... I'm left wanting to make sure we at least have some manner of explosive offense and easy button TDs, because like last year I don't expect the on schedule passing game to be a consistent source of those plays. It's mostly going to be Allen improvisation and Cook explosive runs. I accept that Cook is not a down in down out back like Kyren Williams but I actually value his skill set more for this team the way it is currently constructed.

I apologize if this is a silly question but we won't be able to watch until 930 or so tonight. Can we stream the whole show then? New to HBO Max