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in Eisenhower’s April 16, 1953 speech"The Chance for Peace." "The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some 50 miles of concrete pavement. We pay for a single fighter plane with a half million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people."

I agree with your OP and this. James Cook should be paid the 15 mil AAV he is looking for by the Bills. there absolutely is an inefficiency at RB for top running backs, which Cook is one. He accounted for over 20% of our total yards last year and more than 29% of our playoff yardage. At 15 million he would only account for 5.4% of the cap. In addition to being an exceptional producer, he also was very efficient. He averaged the 6th highest ypc in the league for RBs with the only non-rookie contract players ahead of him being Barkley and Henry. He also is underutilized as a pass catcher, where he ranked 12 overall among running backs in yards per route run (1.86) which was higher than Ty Johnson (1.73). Add to that being very young and having very low use age compared to most of these top backs, I think a second contract for him will be pretty safe and profitable. The argument that you can easily replace running back production I do think is accurate if you have a low end starter. The other aspect to remember is that getting that replacement does cost either cap space or likely draft capital. Beane has shown a willingness to spend day 2 picks on running backs and we had to spend thirds on Singletary and Moss before finally hitting on a good player in Cook in the second round. Signing cook prevents Beane from likely using another premium pick on a replacement running back who likey won’t be as good. As this relates to WR, the market is still very strong with 5 of the top 10 non-QB contracts being WRs. This high end has certainly caused the middle class WRs be getting more than they are worth. Shakir is an amazing contract for us that was a great job by Beane. But it is very unlikely Josh Palmer is going to live up to the 12 million/year in the fans eyes imo (the coaching staff may feel different like they did with Gabe). WRs switching teams via FA rarely do better than they did in their first stop in the modern NFL. I do think we will see (and are starting to see) a running back-ification of the WR position. There are just so many good WRs in each draft with how much passing has taken over college football that the replaceability of mid tier WRs is easier. Teams like the Packers and Chiefs have already started the process of getting rid of their top WRs and just filling the room with highly drafted rookies. I hope we take adding draft picks to the WR room seriously going forward because that is a multi-year project to stay ahead of this curve. Probably need to draft a top 4 round WR each year going forward since I agree that we likely won’t spend a top tier contract on a WR in the foreseeable future.

So THAT'S what Mr. Hoax posted? 😂 Not to mention the 1991 parade was to celebrate victory in A war while this one is to celebrate the 250th birthday of the army while also celebrating the brave men and women who've fought in ALL wars. But the real context and subtlety certainly isn't lost on me here. The 1991 parade? Trump not POTUS. 2025 parade? Trump POTUS. There's your subtle and nuanced difference to tools like C section.

There is a user agreement for everything we stream. Netflix, Hulu, Sunday Ticket. Those user agreements state the terms which we agree to follow as part of the deal for being able to stream. of course none of us ever read them, but we all have to acknowledge them when we sign up.

Aieee. If Darnell Mooney had better QB play in 2023 and put up 800 yards and 7 TDs, would he have gotten more or less money than he did? Are we pretending like teams don’t care about production at all? Like I said, for the 10th time, obviously the evaluation for a player like Mooney went beyond his production. Otherwise he would have gotten less money.

I really hope he get the help he needs and can live life normally. I also look forward to not hearing anything more about him in the media. Unfortunately that realistically probably means he is dead.

This is this is an excellent statement about the reality of the situation. It is pretty much exactly what McDermott would say himself. I would add only two things. First, the evaluation of who belongs on the team and who will need to be cut has only barely begun, and whatever it was that White showed on the field during OTAs is going to have very small impact on the final decision. The issue will be determined almost exclusively based on what he does in training, camp and preseason, not how good or how bad he looked during OTAs. Second, the evaluation will include not only what the guy shows on the field during training camp in preseason, but the impact the guy can have in the locker room and in the cornerback room. It has been very clear for several years now that McDermott places a very high value on having a senior leader within every position group, and that leader cannot lead from the practice squad. That means, I think, in White's case if he can be close to being physically good enough to make the final 53, his knowledge of how McDermott operates and his ability to be that senior leader could be enough to include him on the final 53, even though a marginally better player in terms of on-field performance might have to go to the practice squad.

Let's wait until all the facts come out. I think there's more to the story. The police and prosecutors initially throw everything at the wall and see what sticks. And the police already let him go after talking to him. He is also tweeting openly every few hours, unlike a man in hiding. Could be self defense...or not. Not trying to minimize this, but something smells fishy.

So Democrats who went against the party are shot before any ICE officers are. How bout them apples Roundy? Definitely illegals. It's the lectern guy from J6.

Not true. He's monitoring the situation and writing on a message board with his alias BillsFanForever19.

Doc Community Member 66k Posted April 12 (edited) On 4/12/2025 at 10:35 AM, Joe Ferguson forever said: What makes you think I saw many demented ("senile" isn't an accepted clinical term) patients? Biden's infirmity was purposefully hidden. none of that changes the fact that you are clearly not credentialed as a "doc". "Neither are you if you can't tell a demented person when you see one, as you should have come across many either in practice or in real life. " Your words even after editing you are truly pathetic. but it makes me happy cuz you're such a pos....

I see that you are still bringing up previous seasons’ yardage as your only argument wrt to these WR contracts. I can explain it to you, but I can’t understand it for you. As for Davis, I said it was a terrible contract at the time. That was based on watching him play every NFL game he had played to that point - not his yardage. So, yes, the Jags made a big mistake. The brass there probably felt pressured to make a move at WR because they were all on the chopping block. That’s a prime place for market inefficiencies to show up. But it isn’t indicative of the broader market. It’s an outlier.

LOL! Fake news.

I've been looking at this thread off and on. You're correct about what you're saying, and it even goes beyond that and. It isn't simply about evaluating film of the player in question, and it certainly isn't about paying for past performance. It's about how a team wants its offense to work and what kind of talent best fits that offensive philosophy. How much more poorly will the offense perform, for example, with Davis carrying the load at running back rather than Cook. And it even goes beyond that. It's also about how best to spend the limited dollars that are available. The real question is how much better will my team perform per dollar invested in any particular player. That's why quarterbacks get more dollars than other positions, because the quality of the quarterback has a bigger impact on the quality of the teams play than the quality of the running back. That's why left tackles get paid more than guards. I think in the Bills case they have made it very clear that at least relative to other teams, they think the quality of the team is best improved by spending dollars on positions other than wide receiver and running back. All of this means that discussions that view Cook in a vacuum and that look simply about how good he is and how much the Bills need to pay to keep him are more simplistic than the actual conversations that are taking place at One Bills Drive.

How could the Charger TE that caught the first TD be a sixth year pro in the AFL in 1964?

Is his sign referring to illegals or politicians? Doesn't matter, I agree.

What it means is that the Bills (and all other teams) should be loading up on receivers in every draft, because it’s an arbitrage opportunity - if any of them hit, you get guaranteed cheap labor at an expensive premium position. And by the same token, they should stop wasting draft picks on RBs every year (except this one), because you can find decent options in the $1 CD bin.

Yeah, that would take some of the work out of both.

I would say the 250th anniversary of the army is certainly worthy of a parade, but that obvious fact seems to be lost on posters like you.