BADOLBILZ

I'm sure they would love to.........they have one of the worst 2023 cap situations in the league......almost as bad as the Bills situation but with a losing team and no QB. Thing is that trading or cutting McCaffrey doesn't give them immediate cap relief.........it accelerates a $20M+ cap charge for them. The easier thing for them is to keep him and try to re-work his deal.

Yeah it was after the botched lateral. Later in the drive they showed him again and he had a concerned look. He's a screwball. Part of his charm with teammates is his inappropriateness. I believe he made a joke about Micah Hyde's neck last week that Micah didn't care for. Young men like to have a clown like that around but the problem is that his lack of situational awareness carries over to the field.

He was the usual Devin Singletary.........which is very good.........dude is a career 4.7 yards per carry back.

It's the perspective of the camera. It looks a lot further away than it is.

Or if he just gets the yards and dives down they can have plenty of time to spike it. It is easy to forget it wasn't 3rd down. If he had run out of bounds they just end the game on the next play anyway. He literally did the dumbest thing possible. To quote Bill Parcells......."Dumb players do dumb things. Smart players very seldom do dumb things."

Cook is as yet unproven either way. McKenzie is a proven turnover machine/drive killer. That's why the Broncos released him in the first place.........he had double digit special teams fumbles in one regular and two preseasons combined. If he's anything more than your 6th or 7th receiver option then you have a need for an upgrade to your receiving corps.

He's a dumb football player and it regularly shows up on gameday. Nickname = accurate. If you think losing the respect of some sad-sack mother hen fan because I call the guy out for his mounting, costly errors matters to me.........think again ol' timer. McDermott wisely benched him last year and Lil' Dummy took shots on his TV show at McDermott for that........and later took shots at the coaching staff after the season with regard to the controversial end of the AFC divisional game........he's fortunate that he even got invited back. Hopefully some "inactives" are in his near future.

You didn't have to tell me. I know he's a dumb player in the heat of moment of NFL games...........and that ultimately mental mistakes like he is prone to get you beat. He is the teams biggest turnover risk.........whether it be falling on his face on a kickoff......... fumbling a perfectly thrown pass into the arms of a defender in the Rams game.......running out the clock in Miami and causing Dorsey to lose his mind........or killing two should-have-been TD drives and failing to catch other passes today in KC. I'm sure he'll make an entertaining member of the media when teams stop getting tempted by his willingness to play for near the league minimum. If Dopey Dan Orlovsky can be a QB analyst then McKenzie should have no problem making a living talking about football if he chooses.

Are you implying that they haven't made significant investments in their RB position already? Or that a fraction of a yard difference per touch between RB's is.........big? Because both are just wrong.

I underlined the part that you should have gone with.

Lil' Dummy is doing a bang up job of keeping would-be blowouts close with drops and turnovers......general physical awkwardness......and dumb decisions that cause Ken Dorsey to smash his hardware. Sure.........they could be 6-0, scoring 35 points per game with a better slot receiver and McKenzie on the sideline(like last week against Pittsburgh)..........but his bumbling has helped them learn how to win unnecessarily close games. Here's to Lil' Dummy...........making easy wins difficult. Dude is a character builder.

The Bills defense would gladly let you dump off passes to RB's all day. It's their defensive philosophy.

That's all that matters because RB's have to do BOTH to be most effective at EITHER.

The solo tackles he's been making almost defy belief in a league where tackling is so bad. This version of Milano could have started on that Seattle "Legion of Boom"/"defend every blade of grass" defense.

Basically OBJ is worth about 5 more yards per touch over his career than Lil' Dummy McKenzie. So yeah..........if that gets Dummy off the field then that addition makes A LOT of sense. Upgrading from Singletary's 5.1 yards per touch over the last 3 seasons with McCaffrey's 5.3............I mean who gives a f*ck about that minutia.........those numbers are insignificant. A pittance of difference.

And if the Bills were without Lil' Dummy.........who was out concussed last week as the team had their best offensive showing of the season........it wouldn't have even been a close game.

I mean........the running back IS the LEAST important player of those 11 though. @GunnerBill said it and I'm doubling and tripling down on that sentiment. So let's not get carried away with how much better it makes you as a team to improve your RB position by a quarter of a yard per touch. If this weren't the case then the last 20+ years wouldn't have been so hard on teams that put a high priority on the value of their RB's.

Nah. It just doesn't ACTUALLY work out that a great offense adds a RB and the player suddenly becomes much better. That's "on paper" thinking that doesn't regularly translate onto the field. If it did, then good teams would be regularly trading second round picks for big name RB's from the struggling, dumb teams that used first round picks on them.

Based on previous such stories..........I'd say that means they'd take a second round pick. Which would be stupid for any team to do for an oft-injured, high mileage RB.

You wouldn't know...........you aren't good enough at math to afford it.

The problem with your argument is that it presumes things that are not so. McCaffrey is not at his peak.........that was 4 seasons ago. Statistically, when healthy, he's a modest upgrade from the more reliably available and motivated Singletary. CMC has not been a game changer for some time. I also disagree that they wouldn't feel compelled to give him touches. He's a big name. They aren't going to sign OBJ and just keep him on the bench until someone gets hurt either. You add big name superstars who still think they can play and are playing for new contracts.........as they both will be.........you have to play them.

McCaffrey stands to lose A LOT of leverage in contract re-negotiations if he gets traded to a contender with established weapons and subsequently doesn't get a ton of touches and produce at a high level. Unless he's obsessed with playing for a SB contender for one season he probably should fake a minor injury of some sort over the next couple weeks. He should be able to milk another $10M out of Carolina next season because they won't want to eat that dead cap hit and then have a de factor walk year in 2023.

The healthy and more durable Singletary has clearly improved in the passing game and is having a pretty good walk year. He's catching the ball much better and has been more productive than McCaffrey this season in the passing game by almost a full yard per catch. But that is still minutia in the big picture of the offense. They are very similar yards per touch players in the last few seasons. The big concern on offense should be losing Diggs or Davis and the gigantic drop-off in real production from them to Jake Kumerow would cause. That would be crippling........we saw the impact in the two very unproductive scoring games where Davis was hobbled. The fantasy-notable dropoff from a Christian McCaffrey to Zach Moss isn't enough to change real games. This is why the running game doesn't move the needle much and upgrades aren't worth significant draft capital.

Yeah people don't want to acknowledge that he's not the player he was 4 years ago. Like I said, the past few seasons he and Singletary are separated by only about 2 tenths of a yard per touch in production. That's a pittance for a high powered passing offense. To give up a day 2 or early day 3 pick that could be a very good starter for 3-4 years, given the Bills cap woes and prior investment in James Cook..........it doesn't make a lot of sense. Different story if they were flipping the Cody Ford pick for him or something but Carolina would be stupid to eat all that dead cap for such a small return.

Hopefully by the playoffs Cook is up to speed. Dumb use of a pick but they invested in him, so hopefully he becomes that 8 yard per reception RB and somehow produces on the ground as well. But Singletary has also been much improved in the pass game too. The past 30 years of NFL history indicates that among the last things you want is to go into the playoffs thinking you need to get a certain RB touches..........and with a big name like CMC that would be hard to avoid. Slot receivers replaced RB's in the passing game for a reason. Guys like Singletary and McCaffrey have been good for about 5.1-5.3 yards per touch each over the past few seasons.......guys like Cole Beasley and Jamison Crower have averaged 10-11 yards per touch. Being any kind of RB-centric is a mistake.