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Just looking at him, 317 seems to not be accurate... he looks a lot bigger than that to me.

My only gripe with Cook this season and it's not on Cook, it's on Brady and Josh, is we need to utilize Cookie more in the pass game. 2 total targets in the last 4 games is unacceptable for your best playmaker. I'd also like to see Cookie get a reduction in carries. IMHO 300+ carries is a good way to destroy your star RB. I'd like to see him top out at 275 with 40 receptions.

Yeah, but it cost Thurman. Take a look at his year by years Yards Per Attempt stats. 1988 4.3 on 207 carries 1989 4.2 on 298 carries 1990 4.8 on 271 carries 1991 4.9 on 288 carries 1992 4.8 on 312 carries 1993 3.7 on 355 carries 1994 3.8 on 287 carries 1995 3.7 on 267 carries 1996 4.2 (way down to) 154 carries 1997 4.1 on 93 carries 1998 4.2 on 36 carries 1999 4.9 on 28 carries After those first five years with so many carries, he lost a step. Again, he was still very good but not what he'd been. And if you look at his passing stats they show the exact same pattern, his yards and Yards Per Catch nosedived after those first five high mileage. years.

Cook and Ty are a good duo. I wish we had a dialed route runner.

I am not saying KC will take it I’m just talking about the Bills’ formula. But yes you’re generally in a good spot for January if your line is mauling people and you can run the ball effectively even against stacked boxes. Would just really like it if Ray Davis or Ty would get going.

Ty Johnson? My favorite anti-Cook posts this off-season were the ones the said Ray Davis was just as good as Cook.

Put it this way... last year Cook averaged 15 touches per game. This year he's averaging 21. While to some that might not seem like a lot, it's a 40% increase in workload and for a running back, that's a lot. Obviously we can't rest all of them and obviously we can't play all of them. Just like the discussion of who we cut when Ogunjobi and Hoecht return from suspension, this is a situation that's gonna take care of itself. Kenneth Walker and Zach Charbonnet, Bucky Irving and Rachaad White, Rico Dowdle and Chubba Hubbard... There's always gonna be a drop-off when you have someone of the caliber of James Cook but one way or another we still need much better play from our 2nd running back. Is that according to the Thigh Doctor?

I hope you are right about that. I'm not convinced, but I definitely hope you are right. Thurman Thomas was also a guy who mostly squirted through things and didn't take big hits. But time took its toll, as it generally does. After those first five years his YPA took a very noticeable dip, and though he was always a very good RB, he wasn't what he'd been in those first five years. I agree that James and Dalvin have different styles, but also different body types. At 5'10, Dalvin is shorter but 15 pounds heavier. James isn't nearly as big and strong. I worry about his wear and tear, but from your keyboard to God's ears.

I have seen the others, and I have discovered, that this fight is not worth fighting. And I have seen their mothers, And I will no other to follow me where I'm going. Sooo. Take a shower and shine your shoes, you got no time to lose. you are young man, you must be living, go now you are forgiven.

NAV Canada simply passed on the costs to the passenger. You want to pay more per flight?

Kansas City was chucking up prayers all night Nothing worked on schedule.. like they're not a bad team but no good team is destined to win for eternity

I would just feel way better about it if they could get one of their other running backs going. I am super worried about trying to give Cook 20-25 runs a game through January as a strategy. And slamming Shakir into the teeth of the defense over and over. They are working hard for their yards right now and relying on some smaller guys to do it. If their offense starts to break down physically like their defense has, they are in real trouble.

The Overton Window has shifted. Most would consider me socially conservative.. Im pro-gay marriage, but oppose much of the trans agenda (children, womens sports) I believe abortion is the taking of an innocent life, but don’t think it’s politically feasible to ban it, so I’m more along the lines of 15 weeks with exceptions after and think pro-life groups should win over people’s minds instead of legislating I think the pronoun stuff is bs, roll my eyes at land acknowledgement nonsense and think the Democrat base is openly anti-white. This is probably where most men under 40 reside(ish) socially.

That's why I think we finally can get past them if we even have to see them again There running game is anemic and ours is formidable

Good God, I hate the timeline we're living in. Clone you old god and just assume it's going to have the same personality? Get a shelter dog, and you're going to have a best friend until it's last breath. Just another reason why I'll never totally "like" Brady.

How did I miss this!

Wild

It would’ve been better for Beane to have just said he liked his roster and was fine to stand pat. Just grow a pair dude. To say that he tried hard but couldn’t close - especially after ranting on the radio in the offseason about how his offensive weapons were fine - it’s just so unimpressive and weak. You suck at evaluating your own roster in the offseason AND you suck at making trades? He is killing me.

It's an approaching cold front...it warms up before the front swings in and cools it off. For example, in Orlando on Sunday afternoon it will be 86 degrees, but on Tuesday morning it will be 43 degrees!! Too bad the front wasn't moving in a day or two earlier.

As I've been saying here for a while we certainly have an elite offensive run blocking line and it's still very good pass blocking But both our tackles are maulers in the run game... McGovern is a very physical center.. Torrence is a unit and Edwards is solid

Mucho parallels here for me (and so many others in WNY), but my first two searing Bills memories were the goal posts coming down in '88 (obviously amazing scene with Van Miller soundtrack), followed by the Ronny Harmon playoff drop in the endzone to essentially end the '89 campaign. I was 11 for that one, and my mother and her cousin were just losing their damned minds with a rage I couldn't yet fathom. How many of you can then relate to your first REAL human heartbreak being that Norwood kick sailing wide right in slow motion...I was 12... And yeah, it's been getting more difficult to ignore the billionaire bread and circuses distraction that is the modern NFL and sports in general. That week one win this year was pretty damned invigorating, though, especially for those of us who stuck it out at the stadium. Nothing cynical about that feeling. Now add Dalton Kincaid's production despite his limited snaps and only 33 targets...

Gator=Tibsy=the OP of this thread. Just go back to page 8. I had just woken from a nap and couldn't recall his present persona

The blockers deserve a shout out too. And I mean all of them. The OL, the TEs, the WRs, Gilliam... It's genuinely impressive how every single player on offense is 100% bought in to that identity. A guy like Shakir could just mail it in but he's bringing it to his CB trying to open up a crease. Guys like Samuel and Moore are running all the way across the field to get in the way of backside pursuers. Hawes has the technique of a 10 year vet. You could go down the whole depth chart and give everybody some kind of kudos. I don't agree with building an offense that is better at running the ball than passing, but I can appreciate that they went all in on making it the identity of the team. Cook's vision and quick feet combined with these blocking schemes is the stuff of nightmares for DCs. Cook's 62.7% rushing success rate is the highest the NFL has seen since 2016 (hilariously it was Mike Gillislee). That doesn't happen with as many attempts as Cook has unless the RB and the blockers both are elite.

I've been wondering if keeping Cook out on passing downs might also be part of the strategy to keep him fresh. He's a shifty back so doesn't take too many square up hits where he plows into a LB or DT - more glancing blows. In pass protection, you need to square up, stand you ground and take on a LB or Safety with a head of steam, which can be a more violent collision. If actually out in the pattern not as much of a concern, but in pass pro it adds to wear and tear. And it's not a touch, so for fans it doesn't count but for the player it still is violence.

Hoax. I mostly agree. But socially conservative? I'm not so sure. At least not by the standards of 30 to 40 years ago.