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count the times he ran the wrong routes during his tenure. he blamed it on miscommunication while a bill

Barkley had injuries and absolute zero threat of the pass in his years with the Giants, the only reason he looked “bad” was the dog crap around him and injury. If you want to follow the logic you are using, then Cook is a product of the system and would be garbage elsewhere. Cool, so if he played 3x as much, he’s worth 6M a year. So Cook is a 2 down guy, guess he’s worth 4M by your standards.

The 90s Knicks teams I was. Can’t really say modern day I’m a fan

Defense lost those games.

I'm almost positive they can but not 100%. The question then comes in whether the performance based incentives are likely to be earned (counts against the cap) or not likely to be earned (won't impact camp unless player reaches it). I'm still a little fuzzy on who makes that determination.

They wont hit FA. Beane will have McGovern and Torrence extended before they hit FA. Its already been reported that talks with McGovern have started.

i had to look really hard, but I absolutely saw an angelic fly by.

Right a great football team without any weapon that scares on you offense, one that depends entirely on the heroics of a single player, one that consistently gets close but can't get over the hump to make the Super Bowl. I desperately want the Bills to win one, and could care less if it's with McDermott or not. Many Bills fans have pointed out, going back years, that the Bills lack any type of explosive weapon on offense (not just a gadget fast guy, but an actual plus starter that scares defenses). Diggs was not a top end receiver his last couple years with the team, he was borderline #1, good #2 type, yet Allen was forcing him the ball and we had no other help around him. That's why we saw addition by subtraction last year, along with Allen's continued development and continued chemistry on the o line. Like many Bills fans, I remain highly skeptical that team without a single offensive weapon that scares you can win the Super Bowl (and rightfully so). I hope I'm wrong, truly. I will be dancing in the streets crying tears of joy if so.

How would yall rate the significance of an extension amongst these key guys coming up for deals/potential deals next year? McGovern Torrence Cook Bosa Because those seem to be the guys we’ll be having convos over if McGovern isn’t extended before the season.. and that’s how I’d rank them, unless Bosa has a great year, and then I’d be tempted to move him ahead of Cook as well.

I agree, i just think that Cook has the skill set to be elite, and last year I think he was.

No. I don't know what else to say. Cook will play his ass off this season to get a new contract, then Davis or somone else will take over. We don't need Cook for a top offense.

I’m not sure. OL feels like one of those positions where they ALWAYS get overpaid in FA. They make take a premium to keep together. I love Cook. I think he’s our biggest non-Josh threat on offense. I’m not sure he will be 2 years from now and “paying everyone” limits your roster flexibility in a way that makes me a bit uncomfortable. I don’t want to wake up in 2026 with a Cody Ford/Roger Saffold type OL liability.

That's fair and I see your point. Personally I'm just not a big fan of paying second contracts to running backs. (Unless you're elite like CMC, Barkley or Henry)

I'm not a big void year guy either. But it is a tool that can be used, and Beane has used it before on even greater risk players (an injured Hyde at the end of his career, for example). But like we've said, even just 1 year changes the numbers significantly. And lets us pay him his desired "15 mil year", while the average and cap hit is more like $11M.

I think you have the mirage part backwards. the extension doesn’t factor in this season because they are already under contract. You aren’t getting an extra year, they are already here. There’s a reason this isn’t done by anybody, including agents and that’s a good thing. Do you want Cook’s agent to say, “well, technically a 3 for $45M is really like 4 for $50M so we want an extension at 3 years for $55M?”

I'm not entirely sure if you can - rookie deals are weird, especially non 1st round picks. I know he is in year 4, so he is eligible to negotiate an extension - but I don't know how much they can do to the current deal without an extension.

Here's your answer from the lips of Dawson Knox... "The dude's been playing on a torn PCL in one leg and then his other knee - he doesn't even know what's wrong with it because he hasn't had it scanned yet, but it's got so much fluid in it. Like, it's insane what he has played through... the selfless nature it takes to be able to put your body on the line for your team even when you got a torn PCL in one knee and the other knee don't even know what's wrong with it, but it's messed up too..."

I used to be in the “RB are a dime a dozen” camp … but every time I think bank to last season, I get nervous about the idea of not having Cook. That 4th down TD he had against KC was pretty eye opening. Very, very, very few offensive players in the NFL score there. The defender had him dead to rights. I still have a hard time with the idea of paying a RB $15M, but I also recognize that Cook is special. I hope they find a middle ground. And I hope he gets off social media.

The solution is really is really easy to avoid any kind of holdout and I'd love for somebody to tell me if you can add incentives to a rookie contract on the final year of a deal. If he can get up to maybe $3m in incentives you'd still get maximum effort from him, keep him from being a distraction, and not have to commit long term.

If you structure it like philly you can add another void year every year he plays here. so it starts as a 4yr deal with 1 void year. Then each year the option bonus triggers you spread the cap hit over 4 years again. You end up with a dead money hit the year he leaves, but it keeps the cap hits low while they're here. I'm not sure i love that model for a back though, as they don't play usually play well into their 30s so you're almost guaranteed to see a big dead money number vs. say a lineman who you can extend again to keep the void money as bonus and not load as much of it into a single season.

Should be able to keep them all together. Cook is looking to make about as much as we just paid Shakir. We do not have a top WR who will command $20-30M. Knox will be coming off the books soon too. So we have Josh as the big money. Re-sign most of the OL (I think Edwards may walk either way), and keep our valued skill-position difference makers in the $12-15M range. All doable. Especially with streaming money hitting the cap increase every year.

Well, we’re about to find out what the rest of the league feels about him

You actually believe this is a “comprehensive deal?”