Bills sign Brandin Cooks

[foreboding]

5 hours ago, WotAGuy said:

Also Allen’s age when the Bills get a WR1

 

Cooks only 32.

[philholbroo]

gag

[Captain Hindsight]

24 minutes ago, boyst said:

We are about to have 8 f'n WR on the team and that's gross because the bottom list of them do not play special teams. That's a cardinal sin fireable offense I will pound the table over...

Coleman should have been traded. 

I’ve been told they tried hard to trade Coleman for another WR

[DrDawkinstein]

5 hours ago, Dick_Cheney said:

 

It will be very intriguing to see his status for this week. If he's a healthy scratch again, then damn. 

 

I felt like they would give him one more chance and somehow get him to have a come to Jesus moment, but I dunno. If he's truly done here then holy hell, I think he might be our new all time bust. 

 

New all time bust? He's barely Beane's worst pick with Elam, let alone Cody Ford and Boogie Basham. 

[major]

5 minutes ago, Captain Hindsight said:

I’ve been told they tried hard to trade Coleman for another WR

Ouch 

[Generic_Bills_Fan]

1 minute ago, DrDawkinstein said:

 

New all time bust? He's barely Beane's worst pick with Elam, let alone Cody Ford and Boogie Basham. 

Craziest part of this list is beane actually got value for trading all three of them haha obviously yea bad picks but my goodness what were these other gms also seeing 😂 (or no gms in Dallas’ case lol)

[ALLEN1QB]

Who?

[Ga boy]

20 minutes ago, Captain Hindsight said:

I’ve been told they tried hard to trade Coleman for another WR

Can you believe what Beane says?

[SoonerBillsFan]

1 minute ago, Ga boy said:

Can you believe what Beane says?

No

1 hour ago, SCBills said:

My Guess:

 

Palmer

Shakir

Cooks

Davis

Shavers

 

Shavers takes a step back and is more WR5/ST’s

Keon, Gameday Inactive, or if they think he’s salvageable, actually try to move him around 

 

Samuel, IR

 

Moore, Cut

Then Moore added to the PS.

[Sierra Foothills]

5 hours ago, BillsfaninChicago said:

Drafted 16 picks after Sammy Watkins. Not sure where I am going with this…

 

Cooks is not young.

 

5 hours ago, WotAGuy said:

Cooper helped with that even though he was using a walker. 

 

Technically he was using a rollator.

 

5 hours ago, boyst said:

He's 32. I had to Google it. Didn't know if that was known. 

 

He's old enough to be Tremaine's dad.

 

4 hours ago, Coach Tuesday said:

Did we just quietly get better?

 

Sshhhh... 

 

3 hours ago, Talley56 said:

I knew this team needed more than just a Cook.  It needs Cooks.

 

3 hours ago, muppy said:

12 pages in 2 hours. That's   lot of catch up reading

 

how many "2 cooks in the bills kitchen"  references have I missed? It was my first thought.

 

A few but no one's mentioned that the reason they need 2 Cooks is because everyone has to eat...

 

3 hours ago, SoCal Deek said:

What’s the over/under on how long it’ll be before he goes on season ending IR? The last guy we got lasted all of TWO PLAYS! Sheeeesh 

 

On the subject of Cooks' durability, the NFL went to a 17 game season in 2021.

 

Since that time he's played in 65 of a possible 79 games (82.3%).

 

Previous to 2021 he played in 91 of a possible 112 games (81.3%).

 

[WotAGuy]

34 minutes ago, Captain Hindsight said:

I’ve been told they tried hard to trade Coleman for another WR

I heard it was to the Cowboys for Elam and a swap of 10th round picks. 

[BADOLBILZ]

1 hour ago, Kirby Jackson said:

Absolutely!! The same with the Eagles. Those teams didn’t close the gap by drafting stars at the beginning of drafts (although the Eagle have a couple). Those teams just consistently hit on their picks. They built their rosters by scouting better.

 

The Rams are going to be dangerous with that pick and their own. They are already really good. Maybe Stafford’s age starts to catch up but if not, they’re only going to get better. They are so well run.

 

 

They did well with their picks........but they literally drafted 24 players in 2023 and 2024.

 

Nacua was their fourth 5th round pick in 2023.

 

It's so frustrating during draft season listen to Bills fans yack that nonsense about the Bills not having space for all these picks and how they should trade up because somebody might not make the roster.    But they are taking their lead from Beane on it.   He is the one leading that charge and he's been getting ball washed on TSW for most of that time.   Fans ALWAYS turn on management when it occurs to the fans that they don't share the same opinions as management.   

 

Volume is a cheat code.   The Rams basically risked being a little too young for a couple years and in the middle of year 3 they had been totally rebuilt from a cap strapped, aging team into a SB contender.  

 

Since 2017 when they stopped having 1st round picks they have averaged 9.3 picks per class.   They have lost a number of solid players in free agency that are still contributing in the league.  Like David Edwards.   So what?   It shouldn't matter.   Not everybody needs to be re-signed. 

[T master]

6 hours ago, Buddy Hix said:

Amari 2.0…washed, but still becomes our best WR threat, lol

It will probably work out the same too, there isn't a lot of time for them to develop a chemistry just like Cooper which I have said in the past if given more time I think he and Josh possibly could have been better together for it and that I feel if the Bills would have asked him back he would not have retired .

 

But all for naught ! I hope these 2 just hit it off right out the shoot but this late it would have to be a god thing to make it work great but I do think he can help !

[boyst]

37 minutes ago, DrDawkinstein said:

 

New all time bust? He's barely Beane's worst pick with Elam, let alone Cody Ford and Boogie Basham. 

Basham just signed with the raiders PS today. 

[Blank Stare]

This is like inverse Jauron years, where we’re mid for so long, but never bad enough to bottom out and get a top QB prospect. Conversely, now we are obviously one of the better teams year-over-year, but never bad enough to get top talent in the draft and can’t get over the hump to win the whole damn thing. Such is life for a Bills fan. Perpetual purgatory. 

Edited 7 minutes ago by Blank Stare

[Chicken Boo]

1 hour ago, Saratoga Fan said:

Elijah Moore the last two years with Cleveland Brown quarterbacks had 548 and 649 yds. This year with Josh Allen he has 112 yds.

Joshua Palmer had over 580 yds each of the last two seasons. 769 the year before that. This year 272 so far.

Either Josh is not a good qb (I doubt it) or with Brady as OC, it would not matter who the wide receivers are. 

I will be surprised if Brandon Cooks does well here unless Brady has some kind of magical epiphany. 

 

You could have added Curtis Samuel to that list.  

[Generic_Bills_Fan]

10 minutes ago, T master said:

It will probably work out the same too, there isn't a lot of time for them to develop a chemistry just like Cooper which I have said in the past if given more time I think he and Josh possibly could have been better together for it and that I feel if the Bills would have asked him back he would not have retired .

 

But all for naught ! I hope these 2 just hit it off right out the shoot but this late it would have to be a god thing to make it work great but I do think he can help !

I really think cooper was the wrist injury his second week here tbh.  Probably pushed through it because of the stakes but I don’t think he was anywhere close to healthy after that Seahawks game..  I honestly think cooks might be in the reverse scenario where he was playing injured in 2024 and just wasn’t in the saints long term plans so he didn’t really get many chances the last year+.  I wouldn’t be too surprised if he was decent here tbh

 

2024 he had a minor knee procedure that ended up getting infected and he missed a bunch of time and his reward for battling through that was playing  with cooper rush when he returned  😂

Edited 4 minutes ago by Generic_Bills_Fan

[turbo044]

49 minutes ago, Captain Hindsight said:

I’ve been told they tried hard to trade Coleman for another WR

I didn't hear this??  All I heard was Beane thought he had a deal for Waddle and Miami pulled the rug from under his feet last minute and Beane had no backup plan.  Beane was played by an interim Miami GM team