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I thought the same in general last night. Mike White and Shane Buechele didn’t help any of the receivers. I’d have been upset if I was out there trying to help my chances and didn’t have a competent QB.

I agree that it needs to happen, but I’d wait until after the last game. Two reasons. One, it’s appropriate to give him every chance to make the team. Two, we need him to take snaps in the last preseason game. I wouldn’t worry about distraction. There’s 15 days between the last preseason game and the game against the Ravens. What’s an extra 5 or 6 days versus giving him another opportunity?

Enough to kick off the rust.

I forgot about Moore. He did have better college stats than Bond. Kinkad is a TE, but if you want to include him, theirs are similar. No one else had as good as stats though. Generally Bond was considered a day two prospect. I saw a couple people that had him late first and a couple people that had him early day three, but largely it was day 2. Beyond that we will have to just wait and see how it works out with all of the players mentioned.

Production has certainly been a criticism of Bond. He was largely used as a decoy however. Judging by his play when used more efficiently he certainly seems like he’s capable of much more. I have seen him compared to Terry McLauren for that reason. But if you want to talk college production and where he’d fit on the Bills we can do that. Who on the Bills besides Shakir produced more as a WR in college than Bond has? I think that’s the whole list, right?

That’s ridiculous. The only thing you got correct is that he adds deep threat ability. Bond has excellent hands despite them being small. He had a 1.9% drop rate this past season. He is a much different WR than Goodwin too. Goodwin was a stretch the field only X WR with a very limited route tree beyond that. Bond has the skill set to run a full tree. He does have some limitations, but that mostly has to do with his size and strength. He has had some trouble playing against large, physical CBs that jam him at the LOS. But he has excellent acceleration, top end speed, lateral agility and stop/start ability. Other than him being a tad bit on the small side - 5’11”, 180# - and needing some refinement on his release package and route running, he is exactly what you want in a Z/Y WR. As a prospect he reminds me of Waddle in size, style and ability. He’d be starting for the Bills less than halfway through this season.

Other than the one accusation that was just “dismissed with prejudice” I haven’t seen any other accusation or restraining order against Bond? Google didn’t come up with anything else either. What other info do you have?

When I was looking for my first car I took a test drive and the car died on me in the middle of a busy intersection. I had to walk back to the dealership. Before I left the salesperson asked me “If we fix it would you still be interested?” WTF do you mean “if” you fix it? Many years ago the wife and I walked into a Lexus dealer to look at an RX300. I asked what the stopping distance was since the wife had had issue with that in the past. The older sales rep said he didn’t know, then popped the hatch and told us that it easily fit two sets of golf cubs. We didn’t even play golf at the time.

I’m about 30 min in. Worth the watch. Swift even mentions Josh Allen.

NGL I want to watch that. Such a great story. Good for her.

I was going to start a post about the Bills ramping back up their cash spending in a big way. I believe that the Cook deal puts them into first place for this season. They’d been spending top 5, top 10 for several season u til last year. They were well back into the 20s. Now they’re using that cash again. It’s good to see. Edit: Actually they are 2nd, behind Minnesota (?!). https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/cash

Barring catastrophe he's almost certainly here until at least through 2027, but 2028 is more likely. That is set up to work out well for the Bills. After 2028 he will have one season left on his deal and he will be heading into his age 30 season. He probably will get released at that point or have take a pay cut for that season. If he breaks down earlier it’s not optimal, but the team can make it work.

Not sure if posted yet, but contract details are out at overthecap. My estimate was a 4 year extension at $10.5M AAV with effective guarantees into the second added year. I thought up to about $25M would be the limit. I also said that a high salary in year 4 could be used to inflate the total. Cook got a 4 year extension at $12M AAV. The effective guarantees are $30M. That’s a win for his side. But the AAV of the added seasons through those guaranteed years is only $9.85M AAV. That's counting this season at the $5.6M he was already due. That’s a win for Beane and the Bills IMO. Seems like Cook took security over possible earnings. It was a reasonable trade off IMO. So I think this deal is in line with my estimations. My preference would have been less guaranteed money, but I don’t have any major complaints. Especially since he took a little less money to get that.

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I don’t think it would have been something that moved the needle for almost any other fan base. There’s such fervor here for this team at this time. Allen is so good and in his prime and we have been so close for 5 years now, people don’t want to see anything derail a potential SB run.

I don’t think Kincaid can be considered a starter. He’s our TE2, which is a role player/back up in this offense. Doesn’t mean that isn’t important, but he has a ways to go to supplant Knox as TE1.

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Glad it’s done. I thought it likely a deal was already finalized when I saw that Cook came back to practice. Not pleased that his hold in worked, but that’s life in the NFL. I will hold off on judging the contract until I see the details.

They sure did. But that says more about how the Bills prepared and played than anything Bengals related.

This season of “Quarterbacks” illustrated this point with Kirk Cousins. He got several injuries - ankle, throwing elbow and throwing shoulder. None were bad enough that he could not play, but they didn’t heal enough during the season for him to be able to play at an effective level. He was confused about what was happening and didn’t really process it until after the season. For players it seems not so much to be “I’m old and can’t play anymore,” as it is that they’re fine at the start of the season and can still play up to their standards. Then after getting some dings that they are used to playing through, they just can’t perform at a good enough level any more. Eventually they realize that that is where they are in their careers. It also explains why older vets who have transitioned to being role players or back ups can still look very good in limited action.

Burrow also has a terrible OL in front of him that gets him beat to a pulp all season. And no semblance of a defense to help him. It’s him, Chase, Higgins and nothing else.

To be fair I’ve seen many posters take one side or the other and portray the other as the unreasonable “bad guy”. Based on the other deals that Bean has done and Cook’s representation I’ve been of the opinion that it is more likely that the Bills are more in line with the market than Cook’s agent. That all said, none of us know what the Bills have offered or what Cook’s agent has asked for. We don’t know which - or even if either - is being unreasonable. Sometimes there’s just an unbridgeable gap and a team and player have to find a way through the season. Hopefully that’s not the case and they still come to an agreement before the season starts. Also I’m not worried about this being a true problem until it gets to week one.

Man, #63 Jake Kubas got abused repeatedly. Just checked on him. He is their 3rd string RG. Their 2nd stringer, Evan Neal, did not play.

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I’ll say this about Oliver, when we drafted him I really thought we’d see a more dominant player more often. He balled out when he had a healthy Von Miller next to him. He seems to really need an elite DE next to him to be that consistent, dominant player. Otherwise it’s just flashes or a game here or there.