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500 yards and one TD last season with the Chargers Dude was an afterthought, and he's doing exactly the same here because he's not a starting caliber receiver

A more positive spin is that this is a team in transition, with young, promising players like Hairston, Walker, Hancock, and Sanders not ready to take over from the fast-declining old guard. That's ok--it's hard to stay on top year after year, especially with so many injuries--but the offseason is critical. Beane simply has trim the deadwood and find receivers, linebackers, and (once again) pass rushers. If I were him, I'd consider trading Kincaid, Dawkins, Bernard, Knox, Coleman, and others. Come back next year younger, faster, and less injury-prone.

KJ, that's a great response. I loved the Steakhouse analogy. And the George Pickens reference. I think the key as you said is they do not value talent. And that is why our roster is what it is. Mediocre to poor in many positions. And a great QB and RB. With a good O line, that has seemed to sprung some big leaks of late in pass protection. Add in very mediocre to poor coaching. And a ton of injuries. And I think we are fortunate to be 7-4 this season. But I do not even feel like we are a solid 7-4 type team. As we have looked horrible in several games. (We will find out on Sunday if there is anything left in this reign.) Maybe the signing of Brandon Cooks will put a spark in the offense. And lets hope Brady can use him correctly.

I've just always believed that Cooks was just viewed as a middle of the pack WR1 so teams weren't really inclined to pay him WR1 money for that. There seemed to be a pretty endless supply of playmaking WR's in the draft and defense's really didn't go all-in on capping passing games until after they watched the 13 seconds game in horror realizing that you weren't stopping the likes of Allen/Mahomes without putting a cap on big plays. Cooks production started to dry up after that. 2017 was arguably Brady's second best year in NE statistically. With Cooks there. The Patriots were notorious for not valuing WR talent. Brady's efficiency fell off considerably the next two seasons after the Cooks trade. Perhaps if they had kept Cooks that divorce never happens. By the time Brady left they had a WR room that was about bottom-of-league like Josh has now.

I think Gregg Easterbrook used to say something about good teams making hay in the off-season while the rest made panic moves during the season. regardless, we’re in panic mode

I have said many times here now that I was a supporter in what Brady was doing coming into this season but have not been impressed or liked what I have seen from Brady this year, literally starting in week 1. In this season, I have been hyper critical of Brady, his predictability, inability to adjust, how he has used personnel, and how poor many of his decisions have been in important moments in games this year. I love the "Everybody Eats" philosophy where its not about force feeding someone like Diggs and about Josh making the better and smarter decisions with the ball and taking what is there. Where anyone on any play can get the ball. BUT - what I don't like, and what I said in the post you are responding to was that Brady this year has tried to force this to where I see lesser players getting too many snaps or him dividing limited snaps between Samuel and Moore. Running guys to clear out so we can target a 3rd, 4th, or 5th string player or check down. For example - I dont want to see Cook getting little to no targets so our bottom of the bench or deep bench WR's and TE's can get snaps and touches.

Knox is doing worse than nothing😂😂between the drops and not knowing his blocking assignment he singlehandedly killed multiple drives vs Texans He is not a good football player

Your name implies the issue that happened inside the locker room and the coaching staff/front office is shell shocked from it. They don't like that kind of player and got rid of the guy that was. Now we are basically just hoping any of the average Joe's turn into something more.

So he'd be free to sign here, I assume.

Both he and Kyle have such bad hitches, I dont know how that is even possible.

I think they need to show Brady first, he likes throwing in the opposite direction of where we are supposed to be going

to be fair, I think most fans would be shocked by how much of a playbook is often variations of like 4 runs and 6 pass concepts out of a bunch of different personal groups and formations you have a couple core man beater concepts, a few zone beater concepts and any given week are installing some wrinkles off of the usual suspects we obviously use mesh a good bit as a man beater. Josh’s legs are usually reliable to force a team out of man - but you’ll notice that athletic ends and linebackers are commonly our kryptonite a lot of man beaters are going to be formation or motion to create winnable matchups… but their nickel is as good or better than any WR we have and Knox isn’t doing anything we built to beat the chiefs and a lot of teams have built to beat us… we need to evolve and that evolution is perimiter talent

What’s the over/under on how long it will take for us to IR Cooks? I would say 6 quarters.

They remind me of the Dick Juaron Bears that over achieved and got DJ a COY award. They may be currently atop their division, but I still think they are the 3rd best team in their own division.

Sign Brandon Cooks.

I hope Cooks can show Josh Palmer where the endzone is.

In 89 we signed a 33 year old James lofton... That's all I got

They should just move their draft chips and $ in to the offense for Josh and sign the jags on the defense. Every year they end up playing jags or returning Bills players on D anyways since they always get injured anyway.

Nope, he cleared waivers because of contract no one would claim him.

I think you've steered us into the infamous Cam Newton malaphor that describes the Carolina Way that Beane can't seem to outgrow:

The pronlem is.. Were ALWAYS waiting for a healthy Kincaid (And Oliver too for that matter). Both made of glass. When Kincaid does return, what is the over/under before he's injured again. I say less then 1 game. Another Beane undersized player, who can't recover from a hard hit. Kincaid is fools gold.

Since 2019 Goff is 1.9 % Since 2020 Goff 1.9% Burrow 1.8% Cousins is 2.0% Again this is a massive sample size including the regular season and playoffs These are contemporary examples for int percentage

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He's a veteran. He is waiver exempt. He chose to sign with Buffalo.