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If that’s what you think, rather than what you said in your previous reply, then we do agree. And you seem to agree with my earlier post as well.

A 12 yard gain on the first preseason drive convinced you? Got it.

Might have been his best play as a Bill!

Turns out yes for what he's now making, not 15mil. He really stepped up last season and has continued that trend.

3 months! https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46268673/sources-bengals-joe-burrow-needs-toe-surgery-3-months

"To win games you have to win the game and not lose the game" Umm what ??? This guy is now looking to be more of an incompetent coach than we thought before.

Burrow: "OK, Mr. Brown, I will be going off on rehab now for this toe." Mike Brown: "Nonsense. You can report to the team offices for 'light duty'. I'll have a janitor's cart set up for you. Afternoons, you can chauffeur me to business meetings."

New Orleans is the epitome of "Who throws it to What, What throws it to I Don't Know, I Don't Know throws it back to Tomorrow"

You mean like Dawson Knox having the 3rd highest cap hit on the team?

The Bengals have 44% of their cap going to 3 players on the team, all on one side of the ball and two at the same position. Burrow has now what, 4th major injury out of the last 5 seasons? IMO, you prioritize protecting your QB first, weapons second. Burrow is a good enough QB that if he was adequately protected, would still be a superstar. He needed protection more than Higgins IMO.

I commented on another thread that Burrow is trending towards Rob Johnson with better QB skills but similar availability issues. I think the Bengals must be very very worried right now to see his continuing issues. If this dude's problems continue to challenge the Bengals chances for the post season, what do they do going forward? They have sunk a lot of money on a few positions and may again have squat to show for it this season. Browning is decent as a backup , but he can't survive the rigors of playing good defenses who will gameplay against him.

Didn’t realize SVPG took snaps at the end of the game. Great to see!

This is a greater revision than anything else posted so far. Maybe not for your specific posts, but you can certainly go through the many pages of the many threads we had here on the subject, and you will mainly see angry Bills fans working extra hard to disparage Cook as a person and a player, most of the time wildly inaccurately. You will see far more posts about how he isnt even worth $10M year, all the things he cant do, how he's nothing special, how we should trade him away while we can, or punish him by running him into the ground this year and wearing out his body or even injuring him before we let him walk. Any reasonable posts like yours, or @Doc Brown's stance, were the tiny minority. And even then, at this point, had we signed him to $17M/yr and sent the fanbase into a conniption, by week 2 we'd still all be here saying it looks like a good deal now. So lets not revise what was said and pretend the fanbase was totally reasonable and just worried about getting the number right. The personal attacks speak for themselves. I wasnt the one who bumped this thread, and I never intended to, and I wont go back and quote the many, MANY posts that were just bitter and wrong. But they still exist. It's difficult to take anyone seriously who is worried about a couple extra mil on Cook's contract and what that does to the cap, when we have contracts out there like Knox and Samuel. If cash/cap allocation is your main issue, then start somewhere else. Paying our best players aint it. We could have paid Cook 4/$60M+ and be fine. It isnt that contract holding us back.

Except I think it was Romo yesterday that was saying that Prater in his career has the most [82] 50+ yard kicks. [not even close for the second place kicker - Janikowski]. Prater's career long is 64, some of this is skewed by his long service at altitude in Denver.

Week 2 was about as good a game for the Bills heading into a Thursday game. The Bills dominant performance turned the last quarter into garbage time which allowed the vets to rest. They also were able to give Taron a week off and Ed as well. The Jets away have been a 50/50 knuckleball type game the last 3 seasons but this year they managed to get a very dominating comfortable win. This secures a 2 game lead over two opponents in the division and a 1 game lead overall. No major injuries from what I saw (other than Cam Lewis whose injury didn’t look like much). An absolute peach of a Sunday.

He has the genes but he can't read defenses and his mechanics break down immediately when there is pressure. He needs 20 college games minimum. Next seasons draft would be better for him long term. Not this seasons.

You’re only proving my point. We let the guys who have to do it for a living (Beane) negotiate good contracts that reward the player while also protecting the team. Cook was never going to get 15M but he got a very fair raise and contract and acted like a professional the whole time, while many fans acted like little babies.

They will still contend for a WC IMO. They should be 0-2, they got very lucky to win both games. But with a 2-0 start they will stay in the hunt.

Yes, you are right. I ain't got nothing here.

Yo just gotta throw this out there today: During the game they announced a highlights package called "Tony's Tape Room" and without missing a beat my wife (the kindest, nicest person in the world) says "yeah, tape over your mouth maybe" Take THAT Romo!

Yep. It is good we have the tie breaker with Baltimore because they have a far easier path to 12-5/13-4 now which probably takes the 1 seed at this moment.

It’s difficult to take anyone who uses the “it’s not your money” argument seriously. It shows a complete lack of understanding of how the NFL works and how good/great teams are built. Obviously it’s about cap space and the use of scarce resources (cap & cash) to build a roster. Every dollar that is overpaid to a player can’t be used effectively elsewhere. As for Cook’s contract specifically, it was much better than you realize based on your post. Beane did several things well with it, including: - Maintaining his compensation for 2025. He didn’t tear up the last year of the current contract so it only factored in at the existing $5M+. - The first three season of the extension are at $10M cash, not $12M. - So Cook is under contract for 5 seasons, but the first 4 total $35M CASH, or under $9M AAV. - That’s a far cry from $60M over the same four seasons. A team can do a lot with $25M. - As for the final year of the deal, Cook will be 30 so I’d look for some sort of rework or a release by then depending on how he is holding up. I was happy to see that Beane didn’t set a bad precedent by caving to the pressure exerted by Cook and his camp. Holding firm and getting a market value deal done will discourage others from trying similar tactics - rather than encourage them to do so. Great job on this one by Beane.

Follow up on this: he needs surgery and is out at least 3 months. Though break for that fan base.