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I'm not, no. I like Josh Palmer, I do. But if he is your main boundary down field guy to try and get defenses to fear your outside receivers and defend the full 53 and a third yards then you are asking more of him than has been asked of him previously. He doesn't have the reputation of Amari Cooper who he is replacing either. So he isn't going to affect defenses even on plays where he doesn't touch the ball. He will have to prove he is a viable threat in that role for teams to respect him. Is it possible? Sure. I don't think it is in any way a given though. And Elijah Moore is a nice floor raiser, with a certain skillset but again there are significant limitations in his game. As for Keon. I'm in you gotta show me it. Go read my posts about him right back before the draft, hell before the combine in 2024. The exact player I described is the player that was there on tape in the NFL as a rookie. Maybe he takes a big jump, but unless the Bills are willing to commit to him as a full time big slot type (and they won't because they have Shakir) then the same weaknesses that are on his film are going to hamper him I fear. We had a more explosive downfield passing game when we had Singletary and Moss. I'm fine with bang average backs like those two if the passing game is dynamic. Indeed that is my preference for how the team be built. But right now, it isn't built that way. If the Bills don't extend Cook before the season and their passing game can make more explosive plays no relying on Josh in scramble mode I will be all in on let Cook walk and draft another mid round back I promise you. But I am sceptical about them having done enough for the passing game to make that step. Yes. TFLs are bad for running backs. You want fewer, not more. He was second in the NFL. Only Gibbs was better at avoiding being tackled behind the line. And while of course blocking plays a part in that Cook was only 14th in the NFL in terms of yards before contact and was only a tick above the league average. So I don't think it is as easy as saying "oh its just the oline". The reason James Cook avoids tackles behind the line so well is he has ELITE vision for a running back. He sees holes that a ton of guys would miss. And he will find a way to get to that hole and pickup 1 or 2 where another back misses that hole and is dumped for a loss. And I'm sorry Johnson and Davis are not as good as Cook at that. They're not even close. Singletary is bang average. He's been a starter and lost it in three places. I don't know what you are seeing. He was good at wiggling around in the backfield making a guy miss then getting tackled by the second guy for a loss, sure. He isn't nearly as good as Cook at the quick movement of his feet to find a crease. Doesn't have the vision. Doesn't have the quick feet. That's why one is a back with two thousand yard seasons in the last two years and the other is likely battling for a roster spot on his 3rd team in three years. There are deals to be done with Cook that make sense for the Bills. Even if the AAV on it looks high. But yes, it would require Cook to be willing to leave the team flexibility. What he wants, presumably, is a bit of security beyond this year if he is going to play this year (which as I told this board when you were all speculating in spring - he 100% is going to) and what the Bills want is a bit of flexibility beyond that. I don't expect him to sign a long term deal with the Bills in camp at this stage but I can see a short extension that gives him some security and the Bills some flexibility as an option. Or he could just play without a deal. But he is going to play. And if he is healthy he is going to be the 2nd most dynamic player on this offense again. Then not paying him after 3 thousand yard seasons gets even harder.

Oh, spending time caring for and bonding with your newborn and easing the load on the mother physically recovering from birth is just "milking things" now? I took 6 weeks and then 8 weeks of PFL for my first two kids. Working is easier. Way easier. Being down a person or two for injury, illness, unfilled position etc. is pretty commonplace, you adjust. Heaven forbid a new dad opt not to shove all newborn parenting duties onto the mom, though.

Sounds about right

Fun Fact- Dave Mustaine wrote most of Kill Em All. Metallica recorded songs by other artists that few knew besides me, back then.

We used to play Seek and Destroy and Twisted Sister You Are Under the Knife in the lockerroom before HS Football game. It would get us ultra pumped. I saw Metallica in tiny club, The Agora Ballroom in West Hartford CT, 1985. There was no more than 500 people there

Trent is a great lyricist. Here another NIN 3 pack Another Trent line that stuck with me- "I Wanna Open It Up and Swim in it until I drown"

I'm critical in the sense that I don't think he's worth a $15M year contract. I'd be happy to get him back at a figure that's a bit lower. And whether you're tired of it or not is beside the point, pass blocking is a knock, a legitimate knock. Just because the OL is really good and Josh is damn good at escaping guys who get through the blocking doesn't mean we should stop taking blocking seriously from the RB position.

Really? You're not convinced this group of WRs is better? Wow. Well, I am. I mean, we can't know, of course. But with Elijah Moore and Joshua Palmer? And Coleman in his second year? It's sure the likelihood that we got better. Injuries happen, and expectations sometimes aren't met. But we look significantly better. And yeah, we did keep drives going. Yeah, it's hard over 17 games. But we managed it with a poorer WR group. We managed it with Devin Singletary and Zach Moss a couple of years ago We've got Josh Allen. That's a huge part of the calculus. Yeah, Cook's a big part of their everyone eats results. But that part worked just about as well with Johnson and Davis. The difference Cook made was his breakaway long runs. That's the thing he does that nobody else on the team is anywhere near as good at. Cook wasn't second in TFLs. He had the seventh-most in the league, with 21. Bijan Robinson, Derrick Henry, Kyren Williams, Josh Jacobs, Jonathan Taylor and Saquon all had more. Are you talking about TFLs per rush, maybe, or something like that? In any case, TFLs are more usually about blocking than they are about RB skill. Well, yeah Singletary's YPC was bumped up by his rookie numbers. But he had more carries that year than other years. Sometimes being a change of pace guy improves your YPC. Sometimes not. In any case, his rookie numbers bump his total up, but not by all that much. And about halfway through that rookie year, Singletary was the starter. Even without that year his YPC is still very very good. And Singletary started most of the year for Houston as well. The Giants had him as a backup, though, after they saw what Tracy looked like. Singletary did not look as good last year, whether it was injury or the crappy line or just age or scheme fit or whatever. Cook isn't as good as Singletary at making the first guy miss (or at least as good as Singletary used to be; I haven't kept close track of himsince he left the Bills). Singletary was one of the absolute best at forcing missed tackles since he joined the league. Cook is better at using those missed tackles to create really long runs, of course, and that's a huge talent. Oh, but I'm totally with you about the contract problem not being just about AAV. AAV is just a convenient shorthand. But the Bills clearly don't think Cook is worth what he thinks he is. But I personally wouldn't do any $15M deals with Cook unless it was one of those things where there's a ton of non-guaranteed salary money in the last year of the deal that is very unlikely to ever be paid, the kind of thing Von Miller signed with the Bills for instance.

Nate Clements and his hit on Brady.😱😁

Waller had retired and was away from the NFL last year. Why couldn't Miami just sign him without giving compensation to the Giants? The Buccaneers didn't give the Pats any compensation for Tom Brady.

Boy, I don't agree with that for one second. He just wants to maximize his earning potential. Which from the player's perspective makes total sense.

He’s bumped 9 threads @big balls 8 of the 9 posts are about Trump. As are 99 percent of his posts. There is nothing going on in the world and his world that somehow isn’t related to Trump. Unprecedented juvenile behavior. Its a serious mental disorder. So I’ll just get the popcorn…….I’m having too much fun winning.

I went to the game in Toronto on 7/3. The Yanks pitching is not good. And to many runners left in scoring position. Different day, same problems as every season. Maybe time for new manager and a new GM? At least I had good seats on the first baseline.

He finally delivered.

I don't see the Bills being able to beat the Ravens in Baltimore for the AFC Championship. For the Bills to reach the SB, the road to the SB needs to go through Buffalo. Go Bills!!!

I still feel that Cook is asking for the sky with the intent to get traded out of Buffalo. I don't think he wants to play long term in the cold North East.

Trump promised to end this on Day 1. Yesterday, he paused munitions shipments to Ukraine, including air defense missiles - while Putin bombs civilians and escalates the war. So much for "peace through strength." This isn’t leadership. It’s surrender wrapped in cowardice.

Hope you don’t have a son falsey accused