HamptonBillsfan

I’m sure you’re a nice fellow but try and understand contracts have meant nothing in professional sports for years. It’s about leverage and a team’s evaluation of whether it’s in their best interests to sign a player to another contract and for how much. It’s a negotiation that starts the year before the rookie contract expires.Remember, a player averages 4 years in the NFL and if he gets injured they will dump him in a finger snap. Stop with the “real men” BS. These guys are just entertainers with a short window to earn and the negotiation starts the year before their rookie contract expires. Did you complain when Benford got extended or Bernard before their contract expired? You can’t compare a contract in business to the NFL. Don’t diminish great players who make our team SB contenders. Remember the mediocrity of bad personnel decisions over 2 decades when you couldn’t watch games after the middle of November.

Are you a Bills fan or a disgruntled, frustrated, hard working family guy.who won’t accept the reality that the market dictates what great professional athletes who produce, deserve.These guys are talented entertainers. When you honker down when it’s 15 degrees out in January and your whole family is going crazy watching the Bills bring total euphoria to Bills nation are you glad we paid Josh 60 million a season? Why do you care what Cook wants or what he gets in the negotiation. Roll with Ty Johnson and Davis all you want but how many RBs since Thurman were any good and how many 16 TD or 1000yd rushing years did they have?Do you resent Taylor Swift or Springsteen making hundred of millions for an album or a concert tour? Get real.

Stop with the Saquon stuff. It’s not true, you’re too gullible to be taken seriously.

Your problem is you’re not correct in your personnel evaluation of this player and impact on the team. Yes,Beane is not willing to pay RBs before their contract demands it. How can you not acknowledge Beane hasn’t extended any RBs or even offered them a 2nd deal other than an occasional inexpensive role player on a one year deal. He wants Cook to take the hometown discount.We’ve never had a RB as good as Cook since Thurman,30 years ago.Don’t demonize Cook or his agents, they deserve a second contract and the market dictates, given Cook’s production, a number between 14 or 15 for 3 years. Deal with it.

This assertion is obviously manufactured by someone who doesn’t value Cook. Why would Cook jump up to 20 million when he asked for 15million and hasn’t gotten an offer as big as 15. Tell Ricky he’s lost all credibility and shouldn’t post anymore.

Just play hardball with our 2nd best player and tank the season. Beane says they are in negotiations and have not arrived at the right number. 14 or 15 million for 3 with 35 million guaranteed seems reasonable. Stop undervaluing this great, durable back. We need him for the next three years while Josh is in his prime. There is little chance we find his quality where we draft. Don’t be an efficiency expert, capologist. We overpaid Bosa, the PED Dlineman and added zero difference makers on offense.

Elam specializes in early training camp activities without pads. Means zero and his subtraction is an addition to our roster. Bad 1st rd. pick, rear view mirror.

What makes you think they gave him an offer? Beane doesn’t negotiate with RBs on contract right. Don’t compare Singletary or Moss to Cook, you’re embarrassing yourself. You’re stuck in this mindset that a great RB is not worth $15 million( not guaranteed). Last time I respond, we need a big time back to take advantage of the best QB in football.

The Bills should just give Cook a decent offer and get this done, If they continue playing hard ball with him, it will result in limited production and ultimately losing him. He’s coming into a year where he can have a bigger role with even more production. Josh needs a run first offense to duplicate his MVP stats and WS. Remember all the mediocre backs since Thurman we’ve trotted out with no playoff appearances.

Great runners/pass catchers are rarely great blockers. If a guy is a monster in the red zone(16 TDs) and gets 1M on 200 carries, and a matchup nightmare catching passes against LBs and safeties. you just live with his blocking deficiencies. Henry and Barkley both come out on obvious passing downs. If you’re a good fan, stop dwelling on blocking and acknowledge what this guy has accomplished and his trajectory. What do you care about whether he gets 14 or 15 a year. It’s what is guaranteed and we need a great running game in Josh’s prime(28-32).

Do you need an interpreter? It means exactly what it says. Cook’s first three years are better than any back making more(Henry, Barkley and McCaffrey) with his production and health (availability)and team accomplishments.He should get a second deal soon.

Name the Alabama/Wisconsi back not named Henry, who’s incidentally 32 and making 15million, in the NFL the last 10 years, who is as productive and as durable as Cook. Don’t be misled, Beane’s reluctance to pay Cook is because he played fast and loose with FAs on PEDs and extensions to CBs who could lose a season with one more concussion or TEs who have no receptions but are good friends with Josh. If Cook plays on the same trajectory as the last 3 seasons he’ll be more expensive than extending him now.

Why such a critical bent towards a guy that has been better each year with tremendous production. He’s not a traditional smash mouth runner but what back in football was better in the red zone. Instead of acknowledging his nose for pay dirt you prefer to call his season an aberration. Please don’t compare Motor or Moss to Cook. Cook has been better than any back in football his first three seasons considering health and production. I’m so tired of using his pass blocking as a knock against Cook. Josh had 8 sacks the whole year. If we want to take advantage of Cook’s skills, Brady has to isolate him on LBs and safeties in the passing game more, get him out more on screens and make him feel wanted. You’re deluding yourself thinking you can just insert another back and not take a step backwards. Singletary and Moss were just OK and any success we had was due in large part to Joshcentric offense with Diggs,Davis and Beasley producing in their prime. I think 2 to 3 more attempts a game for Cook is the sweet spot to maximize production and keep him fresh for the postseason.

Great take, the idea of stringing this out just because his history is not resigning RBs for big money after their rookie deal is fine with questionable backs but Cook’s 3 years is better than any back in the league from the standpoint of production and staying healthy.

A week before camp is fine because this window between now and camp is the cheapest Cook will ever be. It needs to happen before the season starts.

My prediction is if Cook has a season with more carries and more production than last season, teams will be lining up to give him 15million plus. Beane is steadfast about not paying him now but when Josh has an underachieving running game with less of a threat to break a big run, the offense will be limited to mostly Josh and the passing game. That’s not the formula we used to make him the MVP and get to within a win of the SB.

Why is there anyone who disagrees? If we blow this and he leaves, we’ll truly be wasting Josh’s prime years.

Stop worrying about Terry’s money. Cook is the best back in the AFC from the standpoint of youth/production. Beane hasn’t established he won’t spend on him, just not now. One more big year everyone on this board will be on board with a second contract. I say do it now and save cap space.

Are you forgetting Cook is only 25 and he outplayed Henry in the divisional head to head in the biggest game of his career.Give Cook more touches and you’ll see more production in yardage and TDs. Beane is mishandling this negotiation. He could have had him for $42 for 3 years with $35 guaranteed. How many mediocre backs have we had since Thurman. Even Lynch, who was good, was crazy when he was here and had to go. Sign Cook before he has another great year and he becomes even more expensive.

Nice to be arbitrary, but do you think he’s been a good tackler or aggressive enough. You remember him on the biggest stage against KC , having control on an apparent INT, and watching the receiver taking it away from him with more want to. He hasn’t shown anything and his stats on tackles, breakups and assists bear it out. You want to ignore what’s plain to see, that’s ok.

The reason you feel that way is because Bishop doesn’t pass the eye test. He’s soft and often out of position on pass coverage. I’ve yet to see him put a hard lick on a TE coming over the middle or plug up a hole against a big back like Henry or Mixon. The reluctance of oblivious fans to accept what they see, not withstanding, we need a more physical and aggressive safety. Beane hangs his hat on the Allen pick and he’s had some other great picks and acquisitions(Cook,Brown, Benford, Shakir, Oliver,etc) but he’s also had some clunkers. Elam, Miller, Kincaid, and Bishop come to mind. I haven’t given up on Kincaid but Bishop just doesn’t show any of the attributes of the kind of safety we need.

Get ready for an injury riddled experience with Bosa. He never plays in the latest iteration of his career. The reason he is here is because he signed a one year deal at a reasonable price, but this is justification for Cook demanding an extension. Cook has done nothing but perform at a top 5 RB in football level for 3 years without injury and he’s only 25. You want to say an edge rusher is more important to a team than a guy who scores 16 TDs and runs for a thousand yds on 200 carries and averaged 5 yds a rush and is a weapon that in the passing game. Only if that edge stays on the field and produces.

Josh Allen is the epitome of the Clint Eastwood, Stallone unstoppable force Everyman hero, dressed in a Bills uniform. From the time he hurdled that LB against Minnesota.Every fan who endured 3 decades of substandard QB play and seasons ending in the middle of November, saw this young mega talent as the savior of family’s hopes and dreams for the next 10 to 15 years. Sure enough he delivered.

If Kincaid is a talent that warranted a first round pick it’s now or never. There is also the troubling fact that after paying Knox as a top tier TE, Brady hardly ever designs plays for him in the passing game. What a waste if you’re going 12 personnel in a meaningful percentage of plays. Kincaid has been ok but his college performance was exceptional so what has been the problem. Is our coaching the problem because the TEs have been lacking?

He’s not Henry but he’s a big part of our offense. He’s also 25 and plays every game. If Brady uses him in the last two drives against KC, we might have gone to the SB. You think nothing of paying Benford $20 million and he’s a concussion away from being in danger of losing his career. Since Thurman, how many game changing backs have we wasted high draft choices on who were either injury riddled and mediocre or head cases like Lynch. We can have Cook for 3 or four more years at reasonable rates compared to the increased price structure greatl RBs will be demanding after Barkley and Henry’s deal. It’s because of the threat of Cook that Josh has been so prolific.