GunnerBill

Was exactly my view then and now. If Cook wants to hold out and someone offers me a 2nd or a pick in the top half dozen of this year's 3rd round then I'd take it. If he isn't holding out it would take a pick in the first half of round 2 or better to trade my cheap final year of him.

Cook is a different level of player to Singletary. He was the easiest non-extension in history. A backup level player we pretended was a starter for 3 seasons who left and was suddenly a backup again. Cook is a harder call, because he is a dynamic playmaker and the most consistent one we have aside from Josh Allen. But he is still a running back. I'd let him walk, take the comp pick and draft a day 3 back. But not another Singletary, Moss, Davis short, low centre of gravity, falls forward type. Another speedy slasher. Cook-lite if you like. That is what this offense calls for.

We agreed on 6 sacks as the metric. He needs 2 in the final 2 games to even get to that pretty low bar. You won't be getting many victory laps. EDIT: and I am completely objective on it. See the thread @Savage started questioning his game Sunday. I defended Von. He played well v New England. I'd say one of his 3 best games of the year with Miami road and Indy. I am just a truth teller on this topic rather than someone clinging to a narrative.

You see it correctly. He is still struggling with coverage. He seems late to his spot too often. Down in the box playing the run he has been solid the past 2 games.

The people who hate on Cook do so because they still prefer bigger, more physical backs who can do the 3 yards and a cloud of dust stuff. Cook is not that kind of player but he is a top 10 back. His vision and short area acceleration are elite. EDIT: to be clear: I'm still not paying a running back while I have Josh Allen.

This year it IS reality though. 3rd down is an issue. It is previous years where the perception and reality don't match up.

That is perception. The statistical reality is the Bills have been a consistently good 3rd down team under this staff. This year they are like 6 percentage points worse than their worst year previously under McD.

He makes Spector look like Ray Lewis.

The whole season basically. Way worse than every other year or this regime.

He did blitz well. At the moment he is arguably our best blitzer.

Correlation not causation. In coverage he struggled too.

Oh I'm not disagreeing with that. I just take issue with the "game turned on Williams coming in" narrative.

Oh Williams. 100 times out of 100.

They were both hurt and sharing the load per McD. Spector sucked in coverage but I am bot buying into the "game turned when Williams came in" narrative. He was pretty ropey in coverage too. Other than Elam nobody gave up more yards.

I'm as big of a Von critic as you will find. But he did have a couple of nice pressures on important downs last night. I still want him gone asap and say 4 sacks at this point and one since week 3 is just a mark of who he is.

He also got a career high in pressures v Detroit. I think he was out there less last night. Will be interested to see snap counts. But the Bills look to me to already be doing some load management.

Think the same on Bishop. He is better vs the run still having some coverage issues. He was late to recognise his assignment in zone a couple of times giving up completions that he needn't have. I'm more down on Elam than at any point tbh. That was not a good display. Both the calls on Elam were legit DPI.

DB who can from the Eagles and starter for us? You sure you are not thinking of Ronald Darby who was drafted here then traded TO the Eagles for a pick and Jordan Matthews on the same day we traded Sammy?

He has made in game adjustments a TON this year. In my view he adjusts a bit too much and a bit too quickly. I think he has a bit of a trigger finger and lacks patience. Which is an essential quality of a good DC.

I am not sure they are so much as they are putting him in a position where he puts himself in harms way. That last run from him was utter stupidity.

Yea he did have a good game last night. Agree he moved better than in a fair old while.

Don't think the defensive game planning was as good. I thought he struggled to make in game adjustments. I didn't think his game management was as good and I felt like the team never felt like it had a real unified purpose until the very end of the year and the culture had taken a knock. I thought he was doing two jobs at 5/10. He did find a groove at the end of the year with it. His defensive playcalling certainly improved post the Denver disaster. But I don't wanna throw that at him again 2 weeks out from the post season.

Milano needs to prove he is still that guy Von definitely isn't still that guy Williams still makes as many mistakes as he makes plays Rapp has had a decent year but is a borderline NFL starter talent Douglas is not excellent and has struggled this year. No. I don't. I think I'd rather keep the HC doing that and hope Babich has a couple of good plans up his sleeve for the playoffs (and has his starters healthy to execute them). He has had some good games this year. The last 3 weeks have not been kind to him. To me, that is the percentage play.

My worry with this is most of last year McDermott trying to do two jobs was doing neither particularly well. I don't want to split his focus.

He caught two.