Coach Tuesday

He will want Amon-Ra numbers (thanks, Lions!) but I think he’s a tick below that level of talent. But if he keeps producing like this, he will get it somewhere.

Uche was available this offseason for anyone to sign. He'll be available again this coming offseason - he's on a one-year deal.

I'd consider him if he wasn't on a rotation. Benford never comes off the field. Taron needs to be in the conversation as well. He's basically a CB/linebacker hybrid and probably the best tackler on the team. He is playing at a really high level despite the drop-off in help behind him.

Wait are you going Benford or Bernard? I went CB the CB not TB the LB but could make the case for either of them.

I voted Benford. He is basically just locking down his side on every play and seems to rarely even get tested anymore.

Crayonz??

Some people are just obsessed with having grievances.

Maybe hurt.

Rams aren’t eating any salary now (per Diana Russini) so the Bills would need to free up around $7-$8m for the remainder of this season and then about $20m next season. I don’t think this one is likely, although the Bills did inquire (I assume pre-Cooper).

This is a good point. There were always whispers that he was a bit of a dog (not a dawg) but maybe he just doesn’t have the fire that some guys have (like Diggs, who maybe has too much of it). To be fair none of the QBs Cooper played with were strong alphas except maybe Dak, but Dak has not been able to overcome the dysfunction of that franchise. Maybe Cooper will do better on a team with a real leader at QB where he can just go ball. Back to Diggs, reading between all of the lines, I suspect he would let Allen have it whenever Allen ran a play as called but not featuring Diggs, and it got into Allen’s head and hindered his ability to play within structure. It became toxic on the field. I don’t think he’ll have that issue with Cooper unless he gets fixated on his contract year target share but again, the kind of moping he’s known for is 1/1000 of what Diggs would get up to and I think they can handle it.

Well played.

But yet - the idea of 40 year-old cranky Rodgers peeling himself off of the turf just in time to face a team whose coach just called them out for being “soft” - it’s killing me. Something tells me the Pats are gonna come after him this weekend.

Still the signing Beane should’ve made last offseason.

I mean, only so that the Ravens wouldn't get him. I don't see how he helps us.

Rousseau and 2 firsts? That would be insane. Rousseau and a 3rd.

Rice was mostly playing in the slot I think?

One of the best scramble drill WRs in the league so the fit makes sense.

Kupp may be available for a 2nd with the Rams retaining some salary per PFT. He'd be insanely good on that Chiefs team...

Exactly. Ownership was clearly supportive of them trying to get one of the top QBs in the 2024 draft despite the financial commitment to Jones - so it would make total sense for them to be given that same opportunity in 2025.

Look at his sack numbers when healthy. Already has 4 this season.

Okereke and Ojulari are really good players.

Is he though? He has built a good defense or at least a good front seven. He has started to fix the offensive line (they’ve had some bad luck there), he made the right decision at running back, and drafted a true difference-maker at receiver. That last decision was probably the toughest but if you watched Hard Knocks they wouldn’t have been able to go up for Williams or Daniels and Maye wouldn’t be helping them right now. The roster isn’t terrible it’s just missing a QB who can overcome bad play calls or win games on his own. If you swap Allen for Jones I think you swap records.

Overinvest in d linemen and running backs at the expense of speed and skill at the island positions.

Gettleman KILLED them with that Barkley pick. Just brutal on so many levels including the fact that Barkely is/was really good - but it was still a horrible pick (not that the Maras will ever understand that). Gettleman is retired now but his stink pervades his two most recent organizations and also the Bills, who continue to follow much of his roster-building philosophy no matter how outdated it's been proven to be.

I mean sure - but that can be hard to navigate in a storied family office environment where your bosses are the ones who bought into the QB in the first place, and a big part of the job interview was assuring them that you could make him successful. As someone said upthread they were almost destined to fail given the owners' fondness for Barkley and Jones going in. And you're a rookie HC and rookie GM - takes massive stones to go to the Maras and tell them, "Look, everything you've been doing and have been told for the past five to ten years has been wrong." I mean the record should make that obvious but that's not how it works in those businesses.