Bills sign Brandin Cooks

[ExWNYer]

13 minutes ago, Warriorspikes51 said:

There’s probably a 60% chance this does little for us due to the OC / what Cooks has left

 

maybe 30% chance he makes a few plays

 

10% make him the primary target after Kincaid and it moves the needle for the offense

 

 

[BADOLBILZ]

13 minutes ago, Alphadawg7 said:

 

You disagree?  You think we should literally try and get every offensive skill player on the active 53 man touches? 

 

No I was just at a loss for words regarding you taking the hot button term "force feed" that was used to defend "everybody eats" and attempting to turn it against "everybody eats".

 

We get it........you were convinced it was sustainable.

 

But force feeding does not describe what's happening.  

 

Too few options are open to feed.

 

 You don't take 8 sacks because you are force feeding covered receivers.

 

The only element of force feeding going on is when Allen is choosing the more risky options on the occasion when he actually has more than one.......and then when normally ball-safe guys like Cook and Shakir are coughing up the ball trying to do too much.  

 

All errors accumulated trying to make up for the fact that "everybody eats" has real limitations in a MATCHUP league like the NFL.

 

[PromoTheRobot]

2 hours ago, boater said:

29 teams ahead of the Bills didn't want him. Not a good omen.

 

He's a veteran. He is waiver exempt. He chose to sign with Buffalo.

[RG Murdock]

1 hour ago, tigerthelion said:

You may be waiting a while for a healthy Kincaid, unfortunately.  

The pronlem is.. Were ALWAYS waiting for a healthy Kincaid (And Oliver too for that matter). Both made of glass. When Kincaid does return, what is the over/under before he's injured again. I say less then 1 game. Another Beane undersized player, who can't recover from a hard hit. Kincaid is fools gold.   

[BADOLBILZ]

4 minutes ago, ExWNYer said:

 

 

 

 

I think you've steered us into the infamous Cam Newton malaphor that describes the Carolina Way that Beane can't seem to outgrow:

 

[Casey D]

1 minute ago, PromoTheRobot said:

wouldne to sign with Buffalo.

Nope, he cleared waivers because of contract no one would claim him.

[Andy1]

They should just move their draft chips and $ in to the offense for Josh and sign the jags on the defense. Every year they end up playing jags or returning Bills players on D anyways since they always get injured anyway. 

Edited 1 hour ago by Andy1

[Kelly to Allen]

In 89 we signed a 33 year old James lofton...

 

That's all I got

[billsfan714]

I hope Cooks can show Josh Palmer where the endzone is.

[Miyagi-Do Karate]

What’s the over/under on how long it will take for us to IR Cooks? I would say 6 quarters. 

[Gunsgoodtime]

1 minute ago, billsfan714 said:

I hope Cooks can show Josh Palmer where the endzone is.

I think they need to show Brady first, he likes throwing in the opposite direction of where we are supposed to be going

[PromoTheRobot]

9 minutes ago, Casey D said:

Nope, he cleared waivers because of contract no one would claim him.

 

So he'd be free to sign here, I assume.

[The Wiz]

40 minutes ago, Alphadawg7 said:

 

You disagree?  You think we should literally try and get every offensive skill player on the active 53 man touches? 

Your name implies the issue that happened inside the locker room and the coaching staff/front office is shell shocked from it.  They don't like that kind of player and got rid of the guy that was.  Now we are basically just hoping any of the average Joe's turn into something more.

[Alphadawg7]

6 minutes ago, BADOLBILZ said:

 

No I was just at a loss for words regarding you taking the hot button term "force feed" that was used to defend "everybody eats" and attempting to turn it against "everybody eats".

 

We get it........you were convinced it was sustainable.

 

But force feeding does not describe what's happening.  

 

Too few options are open to feed.

 

 You don't take 8 sacks because you are force feeding covered receivers.

 

The only element of force feeding going on is when Allen is choosing the more risky options on the occasion when he actually has more than one.......and then when normally ball-safe guys like Cook and Shakir are coughing up the ball trying to do too much.  

 

All errors accumulated trying to make up for the fact that "everybody eats" has real limitations in a MATCHUP league like the NFL.

 

 

I have said many times here now that I was a supporter in what Brady was doing coming into this season but have not been impressed or liked what I have seen from Brady this year, literally starting in week 1.  In this season, I have been hyper critical of Brady, his predictability, inability to adjust, how he has used personnel, and how poor many of his decisions have been in important moments in games this year.  

 

I love the "Everybody Eats" philosophy where its not about force feeding someone like Diggs and about Josh making the better and smarter decisions with the ball and taking what is there.  Where anyone on any play can get the ball.  

 

BUT - what I don't like, and what I said in the post you are responding to was that Brady this year has tried to force this to where I see lesser players getting too many snaps or him dividing limited snaps between Samuel and Moore.  Running guys to clear out so we can target a 3rd, 4th, or 5th string player or check down.  

 

For example - I dont want to see Cook getting little to no targets so our bottom of the bench or deep bench WR's and TE's can get snaps and touches.  

[Shortchaz]

I think Gregg Easterbrook used to say something about good teams making hay in the off-season while the rest made panic moves during the season. 
 

regardless, we’re in panic mode 

[BeastMaster]

30 minutes ago, NewEra said:

Except there actually is evidence.  He’s consistently in the top 10 in yards per catch.  He’s made lots of plays downfield.  I’m not saying that he’s great, but he’s shown to be a capable downfield producer much more than he has been with us.  His usage is questionable imo

500 yards and one TD last season with the Chargers 

 

Dude was an afterthought, and he's doing exactly the same here because he's not a starting caliber receiver 

[Slack_in_MA]

I'm just excited about the headlines when Jimbo and B Cooks have multiple TDs to lead the Bills to victory... 

 

"Too many Cook(s) in the kitchen"! 

[Shortchaz]

2 minutes ago, Slack_in_MA said:

I'm just excited about the headlines when Jimbo and B Cooks have multiple TDs to lead the Bills to victory... 

 

"Too many Cook(s) in the kitchen"! 

If Brandin scores a touchdown I’ll be impressed.

[SoCal Deek]

56 minutes ago, Warriorspikes51 said:

🙄 the big difference is Cooks has been playing

Yeah….but for other teams. 😉

[Generic_Bills_Fan]

No idea if cooks has any juice left but 60% of his starts last year were with cooper rush or trey lance at qb and he was comin off a couple knee procedures so you never know 

31 minutes ago, PromoTheRobot said:

 

He's a veteran. He is waiver exempt. He chose to sign with Buffalo.

I think the saints attempted some shenanigans to force no teams to be interested in him on waivers but it got shot down. He still was held to the waiver process though but maybe that’s what you were thinking of?

 

they tried to give him more guaranteed money in 2026 so no teams would want him haha pretty sneaky