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I get your comments on Gabe, but I think you would agree there is a massive difference here between him and Shakir. At no point was Gabe ever as good or as important on a week to week basis to this team and offense as Shakir has made himself. Shakir is better, and often a lot better, in just about every single comparable category to Gabe. Shakir has also been historically efficient and reliable now in 2 consecutive seasons in all his opportunities. The team also saw first hand just how much worse the offense is without him when he missed a game. I am not saying he is getting St. Brown money or anything of course, but I do think he will be a priority extension (assuming no serious injury or regression rest of season) and he will definitely get north of $15M this offseason and how much closer that number gets to $20M will come down to how the rest of the season plays out. Where as Beane seemed to know ahead of time they were not going to be giving Davis a 2nd contract. Bonus info: Shakir is on a team that runs the ball great and spreads the ball around the passing game. He also missed a game and was limited in another game. And week 2 we barely passed at all in a run game blow out and week 3 the offense again didn't really pass in the 2nd half in another blowout. Yet...Shakir still is 21st in the NFL in receiving yards and 5th in yards after the catch. Not to mention again leading the NFL in catch % too.

You think there is a good chance Shakir doesn't get extended? Really? I will say it right now, barring some serious injury or unforseen regression rest of the season, Shakir is going to get an extension this offseason. Beane, McD, Allen, and the entire team absolutely love this guy and he has been absolutely clutch for this team now carrying over from last year. And no doubt Shakir seems to love Buffalo and the team too, so I am confident they will reach a fair deal that is good for him and the team and he will be a priority extension. Cook...well I entered the season thinking it was unlikely he would get a 2nd contract here just because he will either not play well enough to get one, or will play well and make his price tag too high to sign him back. I said it on draft night, Davis was one of my favorite picks of the draft (he was my RB3 in the draft) and felt he very well could be Cooks successor. Just felt like Cook was in a no win situation...he either doesn't play well enough to get a 2nd contract, or plays too good to where its too expensive to keep him, especially if Davis shows he is up for the task (which he has). So I do still think and agree Cook is probably gonna leave in FA as I can't see us spending big on a RB, especially with Davis showing he is legit and capable of leading the backfield. And while I still think that is the more likely outcome, it also would not surprise me if Beane did find a way to keep Cook, its just not what I am expecting at this point from a cap perspective.

Huh? How is this a question, obviously we want the Jets to win.

My wife and I keep talking about our 2 1/2 week olds chubby arms as these "chubby little croissants" because this one part of his arm when you take a picture looks like little croissants. So is the family of the person who invented croissants or bakers around the world going to get mad at me and try and cancel me for fat shaming croissants? This need to over analyze a words use based on some obscure origin story almost nobody knows its a wild fad these days. As a society we have migrated out of the information era and moved into an era of disinformation, outrage, and cancel culture.

I mean I get why Edwards wants to be traded, he came here thinking he was in line to play and he hasn't yet. Should we...well I am still not sold he isn't better than Hamlin, and with all the injuries we seem to get every year, I think his value is better on the roster than what Beane would get in trade. Could he get traded still, sure, but I am leaning he probably doesn't as not sure he brings back enough value to make us thinner at a key part of McD's defense. As far as Elam goes, as I see some want to bring him up...Benford has been one of the best CB's in the league this year and Rasul is as well. Elam not starting has a lot less to do with "Elam" than it does with the fact the guys ahead of him are playing at a very high level. At the same time, we don't have a lot behind Benford and Rasul, and Elam has shown he can step in and make some plays. While an Elam trade is certainly possible, I am personally not sure they would trade him in a season where we have a legit SB shot right now, maybe the best one we have had in the Allen era TBH.

Is this a real question? Prime talented DE vs an end of his career sack specialist who got hurt and suspended? Not sure how this can even be asked. Now maybe we win a SB with Von, but it won't be because Von is better signing than Mario, it will be because this team has Josh Allen, a real GM, and a legit coaching staff where Mario played with trash can QB's, trash can coaches, trash can front office, and was part of a middling team that never sucked enough to get great draft picks and was never good enough to make a playoff. Even then though, it won't make Von better signing, it will be because Von had Josh Allen on the other side, was on a better overall roster, with better coaching and a legit front office.

Damn this sucks...RIP John, hope the Bills win one for you this year! @SDS that was a very loving and great write up for John, he would have loved that.

Edit your poll settings to allow us to see who voted for what so we can publicly shame the 2 that voted yes 😂

Considering (in our country) the social media Karens are all total spazzes, I can see why they got offended 😂 FWIW Brady was complimenting Allen when he made the reference.

Ha, well I don't disagree with your first post stating he arrived last year, and I certainly am not the only one who believed in Shakir, but most people didn't see it that way. A lot of people felt like he wasn't going to be able to replicate what he was doing without Diggs drawing double teams. There were lots of people all over this board including in this thread, other WR offseason threads, my thread in season about him last year, etc that were either throwing shade at him, doubting him, or limiting his ceiling as more of a role player than anything else. Some common push back items were that they felt he wouldn't be able to get open enough with his short arms, that his efficiency would fall way off with a bigger sample size, etc. Most saw him more as a complimentary piece that would likely struggle without a bonafide WR1 on the field. But this year he has proved all that wrong and really arrived, not as a complimentary role player, but as a goto player who makes plays every time he is called upon. He has shown he has elite hands, elite YAC ability, runs as tough as any WR in the league too. He also blocks well, does all the dirty work, and is completely unselfish. So he still took it up another notch this year and became a bonafide star IMHO

Ok, I came to write something sarcastic and funny...but stopped here. Wasn't going to be better than this one. Kudos this was primo 👏 🫡 Bahaha that is premium mod work sir, thank you as this thread is hilarious

Midseason check in and an obligatory shout out to Shakir coming off another excellent game Now back on a 1000+ yard pace again. After setting the NFL record for most targets in a row with a completion already earlier this year (29) he has now caught 50 of his last 52 targets which is just insane efficiency. Despite missing a game, Shakir ranks are: Yards - 21st - 421 yds YAC Yards - 5th - 300 yds Some other ranks: YAC per Rec - 7th - 6.8 yds Catch % - 1st - 94.4% Now factor in the first 3 weeks too: Week 1 - Allen only had 2 pass attempts up until the final 2 min of the first half and finished with 18 completions to 9 different guys. Week 2 - Was the Cook show and offense took a vacation second half with Allen only passing for 140 yards in a blow out win. Week 3 - Josh completes passes to 10 different receivers in another blow out win where offense takes the 2nd half off. So he has missed one game, was limited in another, and the context of the first 3 weeks limited everyones volume opportunities in the offense. And he still has been this good. LFG! He has become one of my absolute favorite players to watch play

Yeah, and its unfortunate for Diggs, never want to see someone go down with this kind of injury. I was also really looking forward to sending him and Houston home in the playoffs too. I got nothing against him, but it would have been fun to see us end his season in his "grass is greener" season with Houston.

Hahahahaha touche´ and I concede you did

I mean they had to do something, their receivers couldn't catch a cold against the Browns. This is a great midseason pickup for them. Instantly their best WR IMHO, so don't love this for us, but for the Ravens this was a great move. I was actually shocked KC didn't go after him instead of Hopkins personally. Also good for my fantasy teams lol

Richardson can't hit the broadside of a barn, so no surprise. Makes this matchup more legit for us though. Still expect a win, but with Richardson it was likely a blow out as our D would have chewed him up. Flacco can at least get the ball out and get it to his guys, so makes the Colts a bit more dangerous as they still have some good weapons there. So I am going from expecting a 3+ score blow out to just your normal multiple score win of 10+ points.

Yes this is correct. I was actually wrong myself about this yesterday and someone cleared up my misunderstanding of it for me. I had mistakenly thought that when Beane restructured him that it gave him another big guarantee still next year. But the poster who cleared that up and explained to me what really happened stated he only had $3.5M guaranteed next year and nothing GTD the 2 years after that. Houston took his $3.5M guarantee from next year and added it to this year boosting his salary up this year an additional $3.5M.

Hahaha but who did it better 🤪 Also I feel like we aged ourselves with this old reference haha

That’s a long list lol and what is hilarious is that some of them are trying to gloat about their negative takes on the WRs being right because of the Cooper trade while ignoring how wrong they were on Keon (and some of them on Shakir too). Selective and cherry picking memories some people have lol

Except Coleman has done most of his production (including 100% of it against Titans) with Cooper off the field. Colemans breakout is substantially more because Allen and Brady have trusted him more and more and giving the kid more opportunities. Not that the Cooper addition wasn’t good, I was all for it. But this idea it’s been Copper opening things of for Coleman on the field isn’t that accurate. And I point this out for two reasons…to show how much more potential is still there as Cooper does get more integrated into the offense and to give Keon the proper credit he deserves for his play too.

hahaha awesome

I didn't even read the post...I just hit the agree emoticon as that was the only emoticon you had not gotten yet of the 11 options and wanted your post to have the rare perfect 11 out of 11 emoticon responses 😂 But TBH, I am reading now and I don't actually agree. I would rather the starters click and blow them out then get out of the game early and get rest and avoid injuries while the backups come in and get mop up duty.

No offense, I laughed reacted to your post because that is wildly a lot to give up for a 33 year old player. I think we learned our lesson with Von already. Day 3 pick, sure lets talk. But all of that above is unrealistic, especially since Beane already traded his 3rd rounder.

I know, I just tagged you in a post and said my bad. I had a different understanding of the void, I thought it was Houston that wanted it voided and that after Beanes restructure of Diggs last year that he still had a big guarantee next season. I was mistaken and not afraid to acknowledge that when I am. So again, my bad

Ah, well maybe I am mistaken and misunderstanding the contract in terms of the void. I thought after Beane restructured him that he still had a big guarantee next year and that Houston was the one that wanted to void it to make the trade happen. Thanks for adding that context, that was new information to me and can see now why it wouldn't make sense to say he willfully took less money. So my bad, I stand corrected if this is accurate. @Einstein's Dog - This new context Mater just added seems to have cleared up where my disconnect was. So my bad, although I do still do feel Diggs primary discontent and main reason to get out was about his waning belief the past 2 seasons this team would get over the hump before his career was done.