Let's take a second to appreciate James Cook

[JoshAllin]

I always liked cook but with Hawes and Gillian he's become unstoppable https://www.tiktok.com/@film.watchers1/video/7569044524002020639

[Big Turk]

The man's name is "Him"Bo according to Josh.

[BVBILLS]

Cook has been amazing! Props to the Oline, Hawes and Gillian too. I wish the Bills had a better option at backup running back. It looks like Ray Davis has taken a step back.

[Brianmoorman4jesus]

We have 2 legitimate top tier players in the team. 17 and 4. There was no reason to play around with the contract. There was no reason to ignore how great this guy is. If he got the ball 35x in a game it still wouldn’t be enough. The guys been the best player on the Bills this year which is saying something 

[DrDawkinstein]

2 hours ago, Sharky7337 said:

These types of posts are always weird to me, did he think before he held out for more money "let me take a second to appreciate the fans" so strange 

 

Yes. Over and over. His timeline is mostly him saying "#BillsMafia" with red and blue hearts. And he NEVER held out.

 

 

 

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[The Jokeman]

I'll admit I was resistant to re-sign him but that was with the talk he wanted $15 million per season. Then the whole hold in thing kind of made me more angry. Though glad our GM and his agent met to a fair deal and let us keep one of the best RBs in the league. 

[DrDawkinstein]

Pay him $15M.

[BuffaloBillsGospel2014]

I was always in the corner of re-signing Cook just  not at 15M so to me he'll be worth every penny if he keeps doing what he's doing and hopefully they start incorporating him in the passing game also, it's truly infuriating me that they don't. My only concern is that there isn't much running available other than the Ravens in the playoffs, even Barkley had only 57 yards on 25 carries in the SB, Hurts was the leading rusher with 72 so that is why I was hoping for another weapon for Allen to throw to if the run game wasn't working that well but hopefully that weapon will be Cook.

[Artful Dodger]

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Let's take a second to appreciate James Cook.

 

Done.  

[JP51]

5 hours ago, Chandler#81 said:

Hang on. Just gotta finish dinner 

Me too... said it before and I will say it again... props to all those posters who talked me out of the we dont need to pay an RB that much money stance...  i was really wrong... please pass the hot sauce @Chandler#81

[blacklabel]

He's been insanely fun to watch this season. Every week I'm like, "welp, he'll probably get slowed down this week" not to the point of like 13 carries for 11 yards or anything, but more like, "he won't be breaking so many runs that go for 7 or more" but then he does. There he goes for 14, 8, 12, 7, 9, like almost every time. 

 

His vision is really good and some of the OL guys have talked about how he's really skilled in the way he sets up his blocks. 

 

He's shown improvement every year. I remember his first couple of seasons he was a really easy guy to tackle, often going down on first contact. But then he said his prayers and took his vitamins and now he breaks tackles and runs over dudes. 

[hondo in seattle]

5 hours ago, Irish Dave said:

It’s like he floats; it doesn’t even look like he’s running. I’ve never seen anyone run like that before.  

 

I was trying to think of a Bills comp but Cook is completely unlike the best Bills backs of the past: Gilchrist, OJ, Cribbs, Thurman, Beast Mode, Fred Jackson...

[nemhoff]

10 hours ago, Buffalo716 said:

I always thought he had tremendous talent.. with the way the salary cap is in the league I wasn't sure how much we could pay him... I thought 10 11 12 was maximum 

 

In our system with our team James Cook is worth every penny.. tremendous draft pick... Tremendous scouting for system fit 

 

Closest thing since a Chris Johnson since Chris Johnson 

 

He's on Pace for over 1800 yd and like 14 touchdowns... All pro 

 

This is going to prolong Josh's career and prolong the bills window... Having this kid who's going to be on a tear for the next 3 or 4 years 

 

His vision and speed and even finishing power all shines every Sunday... He runs effortlessly, he makes people miss in a phone booth.. he's knocking helmets off 

 

James Cook like Thurman is going to run us into the Super bowl powered behind this offensive line captained by Josh Allen

 

He's playing like an all pro 

I was at the university of Colorado during the Broncos Super Bowl winning years with Elway.  This is exactly how they talked about Terrell Davis.  Elway was elite without the SB win and then Shanahan found TD and they rode the running game all the way to the promised land.  I feel like their defense was a little bit better than ours currently so we shall see, but sure feels like the offensive formula is there.

[Sharky7337]

1 hour ago, DrDawkinstein said:

 

Yes. Over and over. His timeline is mostly him saying "#BillsMafia" with red and blue hearts. And he NEVER held out.

 

 

 

Hold in, sorry it's just semantics, he stopped practicing so do twitter posts prepare us for games? 

[GunnerBill]

1 minute ago, Rew said:

Cook is doing it with the threat of Allen throwing or running on the field.  Taylor is doing it with...  Daniel Jones?  Cook is doing it in the #1 offense over the last 5 years.

 

Allen is also an MVP candidate.  There is no scenario where a RB has a shot at MVP when on the same team as a QB candidate (CMC should have won and didn't for this reason).

 

Cook has been playing terrific, I wouldn't want anyone else here, and we'd be worse without him.  However, it is entirely fair (and accurate from my viewpoint) for an external observer to say that Taylor means more to the Colts than Cook means to the Bills this year.

 

I agree no running back should win it, and there is no bigger JTay fan than me. He is the rare thing.... a running back I thought was worth a 1st round pick (even though he went in the second) and he and Jimbo have elite vision in common. But Cook has been right there on a par with him in terms of performance this year. You say that Taylor means more to the Colts but in the two lesser Cook games (Pats where they dud a nice job on him, Falcons where Brady inexplicably got away from him) what did the Bills offense look like? Cook is more important to the Bills offense than I'd like him to be.... I think without him we are pretty stuck in neutral.

[smward8]

If I remember correctly, when Cook was drafted one of the talking heads commented that the Bills offense was going to really improve with him on the team.  It took a couple years, but he was right.

[No_Matter_What]

11 hours ago, GunnerBill said:

"Nah should let him walk. Ray Davis can do the same behind this line." 

 

Anyone who had that take should be here to eat crow. 

 

Cook's vision is absolutely elite. That is always what wins for running backs. A bit of speed is nice too. Size is good if you can find it. But vision always wins. He was underrated the last two seasons by a large chunk of Bills fans. He is without doubt a top 5 back.

Just curious, who do you have in that group?

 

From the top of my head Barkley, McCaffrey, Taylor, Henry, Gibbs, Robinson and Jacobs deserve consideration. 

 

So Taylor, Robinson, Barkley, McCaffrey, Cook?

[GunnerBill]

7 minutes ago, No_Matter_What said:

Just curious, who do you have in that group?

 

From the top of my head Barkley, McCaffrey, Taylor, Henry, Gibbs, Robinson and Jacobs deserve consideration. 

 

So Taylor, Robinson, Barkley, McCaffrey, Cook?

 

Taylor, Robinson, Barkley, Cook and Gibbs would be my 5. 

 

I am a bit of an ageist (as is known) and McCaffery's 3.5 yards per carry isn't buttering many parsnips anymore.

[Royale with Cheese]

I didn't want to the Bills to pay Cook not because of Cook, just because of the RB position.

But seeing him play this year where they give him the workload, he's special.  Definitely appreciate him now.

[ddaryl]

Yes we need to appreciate Cook, whom I feel actually upped his game this season. I was not all on board with a big contract for a RB, but Cook is making the crow I eat alot more tastier

Everyone needs to remind thmesleves the reason we could not do a big deal and bring in a high quality WR is because of Cook's contract. I for one appreciate that we kept Cook over having more money to go big and sign a top receiver at the Deadline.