RochesterLifer

He was lucky to have a watch! I used to know it was time for school by reading the shade from a stick in our front yard.

And, how is that working out for them?

The simplicity of this myth always makes me laugh.

I think reality with Walker on this play rests between your positive review and the video assessment. Positive - As you said, Walker occupied two offensive linemen, freeing clean space for the tackler. In fact, by the end of the play, Walker has three offensive linemen on the ground with him. We will do a lot of run-stuffing when our DT1 occupies that type of attention. Negative - Walker was immediately wiped out from the hole, offering no gap-plugging resistance at all. You or I could have held our ground as long as he did. Of course, 😊 we would be carted off the field, never to walk again. He really should play a bit more stoutly than that. Both Walker and Sanders excite me. I think our d-line is headed in a good direction.

Absolutely repulsive.

C'mon Dr., he's a "pigskin guru." It says so right in the article! I (admitting, with shame) read it. He is a tired cliche guru.

This is now one of my favorite 2BD posts ever...every word of it. Thanks Bob!

Honestly Mister Defense, I hope so also - at a price that fits the team’s plans. Go Bills!

I appreciate your passion for Cook. I have to respectfully disagree with labeling him essential in any way. While he is very good and valuable, I believe we can win the Super Bowl without him. “Essential” means we cannot. It would be harder, but we would still be capable. BTW - I enjoyed your use of the term “prolly.” 😊 You truly are a Ga boy.

My completely uneducated read on the situation, and its status: Beane offered contracts to all the recently extended players AND Cook. They were all team-friendly contracts, to a degree, but also fair to the players. Everyone else signed. Don’t forget, he also signed Josh to a team friendly (at his stratospheric level) extension. - Cook decided to break ranks and strive for a top dollar contract. This is certainly understandable and is his right. However, the NFL is a big-time business and Buffalo is one of the most tightly run organizations in the league. - Beane has reminded the Cook camp (an amateurish group, by any measure) that he has a contract to honor and an extension offer to accept, or decline. The graceful ending is Cook learning these business realities, including the understanding that he cannot reset the RB pay scale on the Bills’ checkbook. From there, he can honor his current contract, join the team preparing for the season and play for a Super Bowl title. This is Big Baller Beane’s team and how it is run.

This, I agree with. It is different than calling him “essential.”

Probably because I’m old, but I didn’t understand any of that.

No. Other than Josh, no one player on the Bills is essential to winning the Lombardi. Paraphrasing a Ted Lasso quote, instead of thinking he is one in a million, he needs to realize he is one of eleven.

Trubiski, with a Josh-like play.

This is from 2020, when Fox Sports named Bills fans as the best in the NFL. Bills fans in the Boston area were getting their (our) picture taken in front of the billboard in Foxboro, about three miles from Gillette. I believe this specific picture was about two hours before we played them in Gillette on Monday Night Football. We thrashed them....then, they understood.