Logic

I don't think there's any universe where the Bills are getting a 2nd for Cook in a year where the running back class is this excellent and deep. I sincerely doubt they could even get a 3rd, but I'm almost CERTAIN they couldn't get a 2nd. The other thing I'll say is...there has been much said this offseason about how the Bills probably won't draft a running back this year because they already have Cook, Johnson, and Davis, but...it sure SEEMS like they're doing a lot of work on day three running backs. At this point, I'll be rather surprised if they DON'T take one. I think the plan would be either a guy who can contribute enough on special teams/returns to warrant being game day active, or to be a gameday inactive for most of his rookie season with an eye toward 2026. But one way or another, it seems the Bills DO have an eye on taking advantage of this year's deep RB class.

Money talks, bull#### walks. I think publicizing that he's "putting his house on the market" thing is a stunt. A ploy. A negotiating tactic. I don't think he's given any indication that he doesn't want to be here. He simply wants to get PAID. If it gets to the point where it looks like the Bills won't be paying what he's looking for -- and I hope they don't, for the reasons I mentioned above -- then they only have two choices: Get one more good year out of him and let him walk and net a compensatory pick, or trade him away for whatever they can get. But as I said in my other post, I don't think the Bills are coming from a particularly strong place in terms of negotiating trade compensation, and I don't think many teams are going to be eager to trade for Cook, given his apparent compensation demands. So if you're the Bills, would you rather have one more good year of James Cook, or would you rather have, say, a 4th and a 7th? Obviously if Cook is gonna be a malcontent and a distraction, then maybe you lean more toward trading him. But so far, he's given no indication that he'll be those things.

Pac Man, is that you?

Asante Samuel said on Twitter today that he believes Ramsey has reached the point in his career where he should become a free safety. I actually think Samuel is on to something. Dude would be a playmaker there.

The problem for Cook and for the Bills -- if indeed a trade is what they want -- is that this is an EXCEPTIONALLY amazing running back draft. Deeper than any year I can ever remember at the position. As such, why would any team want to trade a pick to the Bills and then hand Cook big money when they can just draft a guy instead and have a cost-controlled running back deal for four years? It's a bad year to try to force your way out at running back, and it's a bad year to be hoping to get anything substantial in return FOR a running back. I genuinely can't foresee the Bills getting anything better than a 4th round plus at this point, and I think most people would rather just have him on the roster for 2025 than trade him for that return.

Gotta be honest: Everyone but Bills fans probably looks at the 2017 Bills-Chiefs draft day trade as pretty serendipitous. Bills trade the pick to the Chiefs that they use to take possible future GOAT Patrick Mahomes. Mahomes proceeds to win 3 championships and 3 Super Bowl MVPs before age 30 and singlehandedly prevents the Bills from advancing to multiple Super Bowls. To add a little salt to the wound, in the 2024 the Bills trade their 1st round pick to the Chiefs AGAIN, who then take Xavier Worthy, who then makes a substantial offensive impact for the Chiefs in the AFCCG, where they beat the Bills, whose rookie WR does bupkis. Serendipity.

I don't know about serendipity, but Minnesota letting the clock run out on their pick in 2003 always made me laugh. Like...how does that HAPPEN?!

He's not worth paying a top RB contract to, but not because he's any kind of headache. He's not worth it because he's not elite. He isn't a great weapon in the passing game (he's capable there, albeit with the occasional case of the dropsies, but nothing special), he comes off the field on third downs because his pass blocking stinks, and he's a guy whose load you have to manage. So if he's not a three-down back, he's not a huge weapon in the passing game, and he comes off the field for key third downs, how to you justify handing him a big contract? Simple: You don't. Let him play out 2025 and then walk. Ray Davis and Ty Johnson and a draftee will be perfectly capable replacements. If you feel the need to spend money on the running game, allocate those dollars to Connor McGovern instead.

Not sure if this has been said yet, but: I believe that Eric Moulds was every bit as good as his draft classmates Terrell Owens and Marvin Harrison, and that the Bills more or less ruined what would have been a Hall of Fame caliber career almost anywhere else through a combination of bad quarterbacking, bad coaching, and overall organizational incompetence.

Being addicted to the NFL and trying to get your fix from watching the UFL is like being addicted to sex and trying to get your fix from looking at the "intimates" section of the Sears catalogue.

I always think it's hilarious when tanking teams win a meaningless game or two and lose out on the top pick in the process. The Jets were on a path to getting Trevor Lawrence who -- say what you want about him -- is definitely leaps and bounds better than Zach Wilson and at least still has hope of becoming a genuine franchise QB. But they just haaaad to win a meaningless game that year and lose out on the top pick. Instead of having a Trevor Lawrence and Garrett Wilson pairing to go with their good young defense, they had Zach Wilson, then Aaron Rodgers. Winning one meaningless late season game literally did them YEARS of damage. Last year it was the Pats, who would surely love to pair Travis Hunter or Abdul Carter (or a boatload of draft picks) with Drake Maye. Now they may end up with an offensive or defensive tackle, who I'm sure will be fine players, but certainly not the potentially franchise altering players Hunter or Carter may be. It's always funny. Every single time.

I think they're drafting two CBs this year regardless. Like to keep their pipeline full at that position.

Torrel Troup, we weep for thee.

This is why I hate that Beane tends to leave one big, crying need for draft night, almost NECESSITATING that he fill it with his first round pick. Suppose draft night rolls around and a defensive tackle or two on the board at pick 30 is higher on the Bills' board than whatever corners are available. Rather than simply take the highest rated player on their board, I suspect they would take the corner for the reasons you mention, factoring in that they can get a DT with a later pick because of such a deep class. But personally, I don't want that to be the thinking. I don't want them to have to say "well, we'll take the inferior player here because our need is simply so great, and we'll have faith we can still get a good d-lineman later". I'd rather they have the flexibility to take the guy they truly have ranked highest, even if it means taking a guy in a deep positional class over a guy in a shallow positional class. I realize there are only so many free agency dollars to go around, but this "leave one big need for the draft and then be forced to pick that position high" tendency has happened over and over on Beane's watch, and it's how we ended up with Kaiir Elam. It's a trend that I quite dislike.

With the 49th pick in the 2025 TSW Mock Draft, the Cincinnati Bengals select Carson Schwesinger, LB, UCLA Put simply, our top priority in this draft was to upgrade our woeful defense. We needed help on all three levels and got off to a great start with Mike Green up front. Next we move to the linebacker corps, where we really need a tone-setter and some overall athletic upgrades. Enter Carson Schwesinger. Fast, rangy, loose hipped, and athletically gifted, Schwesinger is ALSO smart as a whip, with great play recognition and understanding of route concepts. He has a "walk-on" mentality and is incredibly competitive and relentless. We think he can either start out as a WILL and transition to MIKE when Germaine Pratt's contract runs out in 2026, or can challenge Pratt for the starting MIKE job and a green dot right away. We love the value, love the player, and think that we have upgraded our front seven dramatically with the additions of Mike Green and Carson Schwesinger. @GunnerBill and the Seattle Fightin' Mike McDonalds are now on the clock.

Same. I smoked every day for 15 years. Loved it. Made me laugh, feel joy, feel creative, enjoy food more, etc, etc. Then one day around the time I turned 30, a switch flipped. It started making me feel paranoid, anxious, self-loathing, etc. It stopped being enjoyable. I tried every strain, strength, terpene, etc, and none of it made a difference. The substance simply stopped being my ally. Nowadays, all I can tolerate is CBD (the real, good quality stuff, not the nonsense you see at the checkout counter at 7/11) and occasionally very low THC cannabis. Anything else does not feel nice.

Same, buddy. Same.

Amazingly, it was the first psychedelic substance I ever tried. In high school, before it was even a trendy South American healing retreat destination, back when it felt like it was only known to Terrence McKenna fans and frequenters of erowid.org.....I happened to know a guy who brewed it. He brought it to my house in a red solo cup with foil over the top of it. It tasted like sludgy vinegar death. Suffice to say my 17 year old brain was NOT prepared for what hit me.

I will just say that, from my perspective, the language you're using to describe ayahausca ("drugs that make you violently ill", "supposed therapeutic aspects of ayahuasca are significantly played up by people who don't want to feel stupid") is quite dismissive of the substance without acknowledging its centuries of use, sacred status among indigenous peoples, well-demonstrated therapeutic benefits, and the fact that its primary psychoactive component -- DMT -- exists naturally within the brain anyway. Your words are also quite dismissive of the MANY people who have derived benefit from taking it. Alas, its your prerogative to feel about it however you want. Just as its the prerogative of thousands of Americans to attempt to improve themselves mentally, emotionally, or spiritually by utilizing a powerful psychoactive substance with centuries of history behind it.

Respectfully, have you taken ayahuasca?

Ayahausca (and other hallucinogens) can have the tendency to either show you exactly who you are without pulling any punches, or shatter your ego and lay bare the trappings of materialism and one's cultivated identity, or both. For a guy with some domestic abuse allegations against him and with an ego and a cultivated identity as strong as Miller's, I could see things being...rather terrifying.

I gotta be honest. I have yet to have a great Buffalo pizza (have had some good ones, but nothing that knocked my socks off), and there is no food I love more in the world than pizza, so I've been BEGGING someone to tell me definitively where I oughta go to get a great one. Is Bocce the #1 answer?

THAT'S 2023 NFL COMEBACK PLAYER OF THE YEAR JOE FLACCO TO YOU, PAL!

With the 17th pick in the 2025 TSW Mock Draft, the Cincinnati Bengals select Mike Green, EDGE, Marshall The Bengals need A LOT of help on defense, and there's no better place to start than up front. Aside from Trey Hendrickson -- with whom the Bengals still have not reached a contract extension -- the cupboard is pretty bare at edge. Enter Mike Green. Green led the nation in sacks with 17 and had an eye-popping 23 tackles for loss. He's explosive, twitchy, has great burst and body control, understands leverage from his background as a wrestler, and he sets the edge with purpose. The Bengals sent scouts to Marshall's pro day and have been sniffing around Green throughout the draft process. We view him as a top 10 talent and a great value at 17. The primary reason he slipped as far as he did is character concerns. Regarding that, Dane Brugler reports that Green has received "strong character feedback from coaches at Virginia and Marshall", with Marshal coach Charles Huff saying he’s “the most humble human being” you will ever meet. We did extensive work on him and feel comfortable with his character. Certainly any risk is mitigated by his tremendous, explosive upside. @GunnerBill and the Seahawks (or whomever they've traded with) are now on the clock.

Hey @Virgil I’m a west coaster and I went on the clock at about 4am my time. If I can kindly appeal to you for an extra hour, I’d be quite grateful. Thanks 😊