An honest letter to our great Cook

[Italian Bills]

James, listen to me please: you are a heck of a player, you don’t miss nothing, you are quick, fast in open space, strong through the tackles, you have very good hands when called to be a receiver…. but please, keep your two feet well firm to the ground, don’t fly too high after you had a monster game, like the Dallas one, otherwise you can fall in some trouble like you did in this last game with that couple of fumbles that could be deadly for the outcome of the game. 
 

Focus on that very important aspect of your game, protect the football, don’t let defense strip the ball off your hands. 
 

I’m very sure you’ll keep on improving, becoming one of the best back in the game, just do your things man. 
 

 

Edited December 24, 2023 by Italian Bills

[BBFL]

Do you think he’ll spill the beans on this issue?

[peterpan]

He needs the tiki barber treatment.

 

don’t need him fumbling the season away.  What was it 3-4 fumbles just yesterday!?!! Good grief!

[oldmanfan]

James Cook:  Hold onto the damn ball

[QB Bills]

Talented guy but dumb as a bag of rocks. He's the kind of mental midget that loses you games.

[dickleyjones]

1 minute ago, QB Bills said:

Talented guy but dumb as a bag of rocks. He's the kind of mental midget that loses you games.

...or wins you games.

[TheyCallMeAndy]

Dude has 3 fumbles in 208 carries, that’s 1.4%.
 

Y’all need to chill. 

[oldmanfan]

12 minutes ago, TheyCallMeAndy said:

Dude has 3 fumbles in 208 carries, that’s 1.4%.
 

Y’all need to chill. 

All at pivotal moments.  

[Man with No Name]

he's a very good player, but you can't just ignore that he had two fumbles last night, in a very pivotal game, and has dropped two touchdown passes right in his hands over the last 4 weeks. 

[dave mcbride]

20 minutes ago, TheyCallMeAndy said:

Dude has 3 fumbles in 208 carries, that’s 1.4%.
 

Y’all need to chill. 

He has 4 fumbles on 248 touches this season. That’s 1.6 percent, which is NOT good. In comparison, Latavius Murray has 4 fumbles in his last 1,164 touches for a 0.34 percent fumble rate.

[Coldfronts]

No this is a serious issue his fumbling problems may keep him from achieving in this league.

[Dablitzkrieg]

51 minutes ago, QB Bills said:

Talented guy but dumb as a bag of rocks. He's the kind of mental midget that loses you games.

Because he's quiet, he's dumb?

36 minutes ago, oldmanfan said:

All at pivotal moments.  

Wrong again old man

24 minutes ago, dave mcbride said:

He has 4 fumbles on 248 touches this season. That’s 1.6 percent, which is NOT good. In comparison, Latavius Murray has 4 fumbles in his last 1,164 touches for a 0.34 percent fumble rate.

Right, we should bench cook for Murray.  Stop please 

[Coldfronts]

Although, to put this in perspective Thurman Thomas in 1988 had nine fumbles,  1989 7 fumbles, and over 5 fumbles per year during the Super Bowl years

[Warcodered]

We should poor water on the football when we're going to run heavy it seems to help.

[Dan Darragh]

I'm sure he will appreciate this valuable advice.

[JohnNord]

3 hours ago, Italian Bills said:

James, listen to me please: you are a heck of a player, you don’t miss nothing, you are quick, fast in open space, strong through the tackles, you have very good hands when called to be a receiver…. but please, keep your two feet well firm to the ground, don’t fly too high after you had a monster game, like the Dallas one, otherwise you can fall in some trouble like you did in this last game with that couple of fumbles that could be deadly for the outcome of the game. 
 

Focus on that very important aspect of your game, protect the football, don’t let defense strip the ball off your hands. 
 

I’m very sure you’ll keep on improving, becoming one of the best back in the game, just do your things man. 
 

 

He put a giant target on his back as a Running Back you can get to fumble.  Teams are going to specifically be strategizing ways to rip the ball out.  
 

Cook needs to be ready.

[Miyagi-Do Karate]

All the fumbles yesterday were just sloppy. It’s not like someone put a huge stick or hit on the ball. 
 

the only play the chargers made all game was that one guy making a great interception on the underthrown ball. Otherwise, we just drop balls. 

[bmur66]

I called his last fumble before it happened. He was not securing the rock. He doesn’t like to get hit either and it seems to cause mental lapse. 

[Georgia Bill]

Man there's no group that can put a Debby Downer on a player, a coach, or a team like some of our Bills "fans" can, even after a W.   Get a grip.  The only thing you're perfect at is bitchin.

Edited December 24, 2023 by Georgia Bill
grammer

[Damian]

Last night put Cook over 1000 yds rushing for the season. 

First Bills RB to make it since McCoy did it in 2017.

[boater]

2 hours ago, oldmanfan said:

All at pivotal moments.  

Are there non-pivotal moments in football?

 

I kinda thought the whole game was important.

[dave mcbride]

2 hours ago, Dablitzkrieg said:

Because he's quiet, he's dumb?

Wrong again old man

Right, we should bench cook for Murray.  Stop please 

Oh jeez. Not what I said at all.

[HappyDays]

It's a concern that since we started funneling a lot more of the offense through him, he has two lost fumbles with a couple more that the offense recovered, and two dropped TD passes. It is tough for a coaching staff to rely on a player like that in critical moments in the playoffs. But unfortunately we have no choice because the passing weapons aren't good enough. I hope someone puts a hot poker on Cook's ass this week because we need him as focused as can be over the next month. He almost lost us the season last night...

[John from Riverside]

11 hours ago, QB Bills said:

Talented guy but dumb as a bag of rocks. He's the kind of mental midget that loses you games.

I wonder what one would say about someone that thinks intelligence is somehow related to being able to hold onto a football
 

I wonder

[TH3]

11 hours ago, oldmanfan said:

All at pivotal moments.  

Having the ball ripped out in a scrum on the first play of the game ain’t pivotal. Damn dude…you are on a roll….go have some eggnog.

Edited December 25, 2023 by TH3