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If some rooks are immediately good I agree. If they're just depth probably not true.

The whole Cook fiasco is beyond stupid. He's under contract! He has few options. Sure, he can sit out. That way he can lose a decent paycheck and at the same time compromise any negotiating leverage with other teams. Ideally, he'd want to play his balls in 2025 off to increase his value in FA. As far as drafting or signing another RB - there were greater needs. Also, there may not have been a back the Bills thought fit their culture or talent level. Should they just sign any warm body to fill the position. Ray Davis may be to James Cook what Thurman was to then starter Ronnie Harmon. Davis looks very capable. The Bills still have Frank Gore Jr., who looked serviceable. The Bills are in the driver's seat. Cook can play in 2025 after which the Bills can slap the Franchise tag on him, sign another FA, or draft another back in 2026. How much of James Cook's posturing is attributed to big brother Dalvin whispering in his ear? He's on his 4th team since 2022. I doubt he's making top dollar as a journeyman. If James is smart, he'll shut up and let his play on the field speak for itself, and then he can get the money thing sorted out after the Bills win the Super Bowl next February.

Down boy

Frustratingly we can’t seem to hit on high round defensive picks being game changers, much less solid starters (Elam, Basham, Epenesa). Bishop might be the next one to fall into that category bc he really didn’t flash much, but we’ll see this year. Mid to late rounders seem to have about the same success rate. So for as much as McD can maximize marginal talent the team seems to marginalize better talent (and/or they just suck at scouting top talent). They have invested heavily in defense for years with little ROI and few top tier at their position players. Sure they’ve had some hits but they seem built the wrong way for tough games being a light but fast defense that doesn’t seem to ever get enough pressure on the QB in big moments.

Highmark Stadium will be rocking for one last time 9-0 at home. Go Bills !!!

Wait. They don't??😆

Well, Beane had to do SOMEthing to feed the wide receiver train, right? I mean, God knows what would happen if we hadn't taken a wide receiver... /s

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At first cor. 3:9-11 and 10:4 the apostle Paul says Jesus is the rock or foundation the church is built on. Throughout the Gospels Jesus repeatedly says that none of the apostles is greater than the other. In Matthew 16 Jesus asked Peter a few versus before the ones everyone is quoting who the people were saying he, Jesus, was? Then Jesus asked the apostles who do you say I am? Peter answered "you are the Christ, the son of the living God". The conversation was based around Christ who he was, not Peter. Jesus was talking about himself being the foundation.

You are under estimating the play of Josh Palmer. The season will unfold. Josh Palmer ??? I think Samuel's role in this offense is as a gadget player. They want him to line up behind the QB, at the edge or in the slot. I think Samuel's position on this team will be determined in Training Camp.

Oh, and yeah Singletary was a very good back, in 2021 and always, really. But your contention that he got really good in the last four games of 2021 because they stopped platooning him? Also doesn't make sense. He averaged 4.6 YPC for the season. And considerably less over the last four games. He was still good. But not better, platooned or not. Yes, he got more yards. But not because he was running better. He was just running more, so even though he was getting less per carry he totaled more yards. And again, the Bills got ahead in each game by mostly passing and then turned up the runs later in games to burn clock.

Gonna see a lot of Gore this summer.

for those who sit lower in the bowl...

That was close to the beginning of MTV, when they were trying to come up with ground breaking videos. So yeah, I get it. By the way, is that Aimee Mann (‘til Tuesday lead singer, singing the chorus) behind the camera?

Moore is a vertical threat. He just hasn’t frequently been used that way on the teams he has been on. It’s not that he can’t do it, https://www.espn.com/blog/new-york-jets/post/_/id/90365/is-jets-elijah-moore-the-nfls-most-ignored-wide-receiver

Escape from Alcatraz was good, too. I haven't seen the terrorists spring Ramzi Yousef from Florence Supermax. That tells me all I need to know about how effective that place is. No need to sink a fortune into Alcatraz.

I am not a ST holder, and I only attend about once a year. But in my random pursuit, I have enjoyed the endzone seats--lower bowl--as you get a full view of what is developing as plays unfold on the field. The negative is when the entire game seems to be played on the other end of the field. The worst for me (in many ways) was the Minnesota game in '22. All the significant action was at the other end of the field in that game. First, we were celebrating at the stop. And then, not until we saw it on the big screen did we have any idea Josh fumbled in their endzone. Ugh!

Um, no, I'm not saying that or anything like it Maybe you could actually read my post ... then answer it? That way you could respond to things I actually said? Also didn't say "not fact based." Or anything like it. Again, maybe read and respond to what I actually said. I disagree with some of your facts. One thing you said was that the 2021 Bills changed things around by suddenly stressing the run game the last four games of the season. And as I pointed out, that wasn't true. In three out of those four games they started out stressing the pass much more than the run, got ahead that way and then ran the ball more later to run out the clock. The main problem with your post, though, is the logic. Not the facts, the logic. You claimed that whenever the Bills really stress the run game they play very well. And that this shows that they should and will re-sign James Cook even if he's overpriced. This doesn't follow. The conditional and the conclusion aren't linked. Even if the conditional is 100% factual and true, it doesn't show they should re-sign Cook even if he costs too much. Again, it’s like arguing that oranges are nutritious, healthy and good for you and that therefore you must eat THAT PARTICULAR ORANGE OVER THERE AND NO OTHER, despite the fact that that one particular orange is priced at $500 and has a black spot on it. It doesn’t follow. Even if oranges generally are good, that doesn’t show you need to eat the one orange no matter what. It just doesn’t. Same with your argument. Even if your conditional is 100% true, it doesn’t show we need to re-sign Cook no matter what. There are a ton of different ways to stress the run game. Many of them make economic sense. Such as keeping the OL together which they’ve done such a terrific job with. Or maybe drafting another 3rd round RB next year if Cook keeps insisting on $15M and running him, Ray Davis and Ty Johnson and maybe one more guy fight it out to see who gets to run behind that terrific OL. Oh, and the way you wrote made it seem like you thought I might be the real Thurman Thomas. I’m not. Just a huge Thurman fan. Thurman, by the way, was a terrific pass blocker when called on and played a ton more snaps than Cook ever has. Terrific in short yardage power situations too. I'd love to see them re-sign Cook. At a reasonable price. What he's asking for is not reasonable.

Interesting, I think the Houston D is the opposite of physical, especially in the middle. I think it is fast and talented. They have playmakers in the secondary and their edge rushers are dangerous. I think their weakness is the middle of the Dline and the linebackers. That is where you can expose them if you can get physical. That and their offensive line are the weaknesses of that team.

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