Bills sign Brandin Cooks

[The Jokeman]

1 hour ago, Bruffalo said:

I probably should have been more clear. I meant this last off season to the trade season, with DK Metcalf and Pickens moving for reasonable prices.

 

If you asked me at the deadline would I rather trade for Shaheed or get Cooks for free I'm still going Shaheed.   

DK Metcalf got an extension, this year he getting $11m and has 9 yards more than Shakir who getting $2.6m this year. Then here's Metcalf cap hit the rest of his contract $31m/$32m/$34m and $41m compared to  $6.7m/$13m/$15m/$16m/$1.8m.

Yeah sorry give me Shakir over Metcalf based on performance and cap number more than not. 

 

Shaheed since traded in 3 games has 3 catches and 30 yards receiving, Coleman has 3 catches 46 yards over the last 3 weeks (which was 1 games played). But yeah let's give up 4th and 5th round picks for the super fast guy.

Oh and Cooks has 38 yards during that same 3 game stretch.

Edited 4 hours ago by The Jokeman

[PromoTheRobot]

7 minutes ago, Generic_Bills_Fan said:

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 

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 

 

Maybe I'm mixing up my hockey and football waiver rules. I though veterans didn't need to go through waivers.

[MikePJ76]

32 minutes ago, Miyagi-Do Karate said:

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

I fully expect to him choke on turkey Thursday and be a late Friday add to the injury report with a subtle…throat listing.   
 

I can hear McDermott telling Sal Friday morning cooks will be out with a throat injury.

[Kelly to Allen]

2 minutes ago, JaCrispy said:

I think Jeremy wins the argument 😉

True

 

But I also think it's a good sign that beane doesn't care about looking bad, but is doing whatever to get better regardless of ego

 

 

That's an extremely valuable character trait in management 

 

 

[transplantbillsfan]

3 hours ago, KCNC said:

Cooks ain't gonna cut it!  Why not just sign Gabe to 53?

 

Oh that's coming 

[Generic_Bills_Fan]

32 minutes ago, RG Murdock said:

The pronlem is.. We’re 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 than 1 game. Another Beane undersized player, who can't recover from a hard hit. Kincaid is fools gold.   

Hes maybe a shade under average weight for an nfl TE.  240-250 is pretty standard.  Y’all are making it sound like he’s 190 pounds 😂

 

Brock bowers is the same height and lighter than Kincaid 

[MikePJ76]

What the hell is Chris Brown going to say if this guy scores? 
 

 

[JaCrispy]

1 minute ago, Kelly to Allen said:

True

 

But I also think it's a good sign that beane doesn't care about looking bad, but is doing whatever to get better regardless of ego

 

 

That's an extremely valuable character trait in management 

 

 

While I agree, Beane can only blame himself for the position he’s put himself in, with his arrogance…

[The Jokeman]

3 minutes ago, JaCrispy said:

I think Jeremy wins the argument 😉

9th most passing yards on 25th most pass attempts. But I know it's all on Allen cuz yeah our WR suck.

[Generic_Bills_Fan]

4 minutes ago, PromoTheRobot said:

 

Maybe I'm mixing up my hockey and football waiver rules. I though veterans didn't need to go through waivers.

I think there’s a distinction for pre and post trade deadline.  I’m pretty sure everyone hits waivers after the deadline 

Edited 4 hours ago by Generic_Bills_Fan

[The Jokeman]

3 minutes ago, PromoTheRobot said:

 

Maybe I'm mixing up my hockey and football waiver rules. I though veterans didn't need to go through waivers.

After the trade deadline all players most go through waiver wire in the NFL.

[SoonerBillsFan]

3 minutes ago, Kelly to Allen said:

True

 

But I also think it's a good sign that beane doesn't care about looking bad, but is doing whatever to get better regardless of ego

 

 

That's an extremely valuable character trait in management 

 

 

Beane needs to go this offseason, that said this is nothing more than him trying to save his own Arse somehow.  Address WR in the damn offseason or go ahead and  trade away our 2026 1st for a good, established WR. God knows Beane is gonna screw up whatever 1st round pick we have this next year, and he sure as hell won't draft a WR worth a damn.

[PromoTheRobot]

1 minute ago, SoonerBillsFan said:

Beane needs to go this offseason, that said this is nothing more than him trying to save his own Arse somehow.  Address WR in the damn offseason or go ahead and  trade away our 2026 1st for a good, established WR. God knows Beane is gonna screw up whatever 1st round pick we have this next year, and he sure as hell won't draft a WR worth a damn.

 

Do we still move on if Cooks turns out good?

[Lost]

2 hours ago, Aussie Joe said:

Augs …I’m sure the 9th  time is the charm..

 

 

 

Don't forget Chase Claypool on this list.   

[PromoTheRobot]

3 hours ago, Aussie Joe said:

Augs …I’m sure the 9th  time is the charm..

 

 

 

How many of these guys got injured and how many just sucked?

[The Jokeman]

1 minute ago, SoonerBillsFan said:

Beane needs to go this offseason, that said this is nothing more than him trying to save his own Arse somehow.  Address WR in the damn offseason or go ahead and  trade away our 2026 1st for a good, established WR. God knows Beane is gonna screw up whatever 1st round pick we have this next year, and he sure as hell won't draft a WR worth a damn.

No he's being a good GM trying to improve his roster based on what's available and at value he willing to take on. 

[zow2]

Oh boy, i looked at some of the national sentiment on social media. Lots of media types are clowning on the Bills for this signing.  I mean it’s worth a swing right?!

[PromoTheRobot]

1 minute ago, The Jokeman said:

No he's being a good GM trying to improve his roster based on what's available and at value he willing to take on. 

 

Are people complaining about signing Cooks hating the move or hating something better wasn't done sooner? If it's the latter then there isn't anything that can be done about it now. This is pretty much all that was left to do. So it was Cooks or nothing, right?

[The Wiz]

13 minutes ago, Kelly to Allen said:

True

 

But I also think it's a good sign that beane doesn't care about looking bad, but is doing whatever to get better regardless of ego

 

 

That's an extremely valuable character trait in management 

 

 

It's kind of hard to look worse IMO.

[Success]

Just now, zow2 said:

Oh boy, i looked at some of the national sentiment on social media. Lots of media types are clowning on the Bills for this signing.  I mean it’s worth a swing right?!

 

A couple of things are true here:  it's worth a swing, and we deserve to be clowned for it.