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who's Josh golfing with these days

Assuming Cinncy GM would rather get a massage from a live cobra than trade him within his division or to another AFC contender They have Burrow, Chase, Tee Higgins and Trey and missed the playoffs. Imagine if Sean McDermott missed the playoffs with the current roster, much less with all those stars

Thw Bills jhave what 4 defensive lineman under contract? They'll I think want 9 on the gameday roster

yea no one gonna take this trade if that's what he's demanding in an extension. They'll be lucky to get a 3rd

As an overall #1 or as a field stretching X?

He's going to have a really good market because there's no more guarenteed mooney left, just the void years for his already paid bonus which stays with Seattle. He's 28 so has a few prime years left so I could see a 3rd rounder (and he'd want the team to extend him)

HE just needs to get healthy

Actually really enjoying what the Bears are doing. They just added both Jonah Jackson and Joe Thuney, two excellent guards. they have a hopefully improving Darnell Wright at RT, and presumably will add a LT via draft. Really solid foundation they're building on O

Also, they got a little bit lucky + still reaping the rewards of drafting well The titans didn't value AJ Brown and this was his first extension year with the Eagles and his cap hit was 11M. The Giants didn't value Saquon and the Eagles got him at a bit of a bargain (his cap hit was 3.5M) They got a career year out of Mekhi Becton which absolutely no one would have predicted Josh Sweat was drafted by the Eagles in 2018, never did enough to earn on a big time extension, got a 1 year contract this season and had a career year. Zach Baun was a journey pickup who turned in all-pro season They drafted guys like Jordan Mailata, Landon Dickerson, Jalen Carter, Jordan Davis, and Milton Williams, not to mention Quinyon Mitchell and Cooper DeJean. Sure it's good cap management, but there;s a lot of great drafting + luck

Now there's a creative solution. Trade Cook for a 2nd. Trade a 5th for ETN

Which comes with a huge signing bonus for that to be effective, but that's actually what the Eagles and Beane do now.

I think getting Curtis Samuel healthy (he was injured towards the end of camp) would go a long ways. But the Bills will add explosiveness on the outside.

The same team that's likely going to lose a stud pass rusher and key DT depth piece

This is Cook's first eligible extension year, but he's got a year left before the franchise tag comes into play My guess is if Cook doesn't get an extension he holds out

All the power to him and I hope someome pays him. He seems like a good dude and I'm all for NFL players getting their worth from these billionair owners. I just don't want that going against the Bills cap.

I'll add just because you can doesn't mean you should

Bills can't have a 45M-50M QB and a 15M RB. That's just reality. If it came down to it. I'd rather trade cook for a 2nd or late 1st, resign Ty Johnson, and draft a 4th/5th round RB and start Davis. And then use all them high draft picks to reinvigorate the talent on D

No one is going to give him $15M in the open market. Unless it's a team that;s not contending this year, has Cap to burn, and front load him now so he's got a smaller cap hit when they think they can contend

Ain't no other Saquon Barkley's out there. I love Cook but he's probably two tiers below Barkley

He also straight up talks about evolving his defense and being visonary to attack modern offenses

That's not at all what he said, he was saying that people got the job wrong of the new defensive assistant, who would be working with the DLine and not adding man stuff to the DBs

You realize McDermott won 9 games and broke the drought with Tyrod freakin Taylor? And won 10 games with 2nd year Josh? I don’t know why Bills fans insist on doing this stuff

We’ll have more than enough cap space for a big splash if beane chooses to do so

Rage On

I do think it started a larger conversation around hazing in sports, which in turn led to more attention on hazing in general in places such as fraternities. The rare W for the record everything and post it online world we live in is that it’s really hard to get away with the hazing that kids and organizations used to ritualize just 10-15 years ago He’s rationalizing being a victim. Have you ever talked to a sexual assault survivor? They switch among a lot of emotional states - often including self hatred