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Bingo. He is not a back that can run behind a weak line. 0 power. Hes only dangerous staying clean in the backfield and through the hole into the secondary... eating once in the secondary is a real skill set, just not one we have the luxury of paying for. Give that $$ to a WR or somewhere else next year. I'll die on that hill

I don't blame him at all. RBs have like a 5 year shelf life... and 1st rders get 5 year rookie deals (i know cook was 2nd). Nflpa will have to renegotiate the RB rookie contracts to ever get this fixed. Cook is worth a raise, and someone will give it to him, just not us and shouldn't be. Our OL parts the damn red sea. Im ready to see Ray Davis take the crown here. Dude finished the season with nearly as many yards and more receiving TDs than Cook, with probably 25% of the snaps. He can pass block. Running the ball won't be a problem, and Davis will do more in the pass game. Why in tf would we pay Cook? Absolutely insane. No hyperbole trade him at the top of his value. Laugh all you want but Ray is a better fit for our run game too IMO. Ready to get roasted 🤷

What a dumb "article" from Florio. It's literally nothing. I get its the offseason but atleast string it together with other teams nfl news like a quick hit. I got the same exact thing out of the headline as reading the article. Such a hack

Why would any team ink that kind of deal (or really any deal) without getting a physical. I assumed when terms get announced a guy has 24hrs to get there for physical kinda thing. When you spend solid $$ on a player from FA; its not only hitvhing your boat to a guy, its also removing yourself from a certain tier of FA money..... so God forbid you ink someone, then find out they cant pass a physical, but the other guys you were courting have moved on and found a new team. Absolutely bonkers if this is how it works. How does a full month pass without being sure on the physical?

What is there to gripe about in the zoomed out look? First, he wasnt a Pickens or AB level of malcontent. Dude wanted money and more targets... literally EVERY WR in the NFL. He was young and hadnt peaked yet. He helped Josh develop, we got 2 absolutely elite years out of him, leading the league in yards one of them. ^^looking at this, we traded a 1st (and 5th?), and recouped a 2nd... So we netted all the above, for the equivalent of a 1 round trade back? I WISH WE COULD MAKE THIS KIND OF MISTAKE THIS OFF-SEASON.

I think you can be mentally & physically tough while being being unsure of your post injury capabilities. Dude was healthy through college wasnt he? I think he can be nasty in the run game, appears like a haul to bring down once hes got the ball, so im willing to give him the pass here. Dude had just started to get the earliest signs of momentum going and then had it killed by a month off the field. Probably very hard to get that train going again as a Rookie & as somebody whos been football healthy his whole life

Great post. I'll just throw in my 2 cents on the bolded. While I'd love to have an All-Pro WR, I know its not realistic unless we hit jackpot on a guy at the end of the 1st one year. Adding one serious outside threat forces defenses to be more multi-dimensional than they have to be now (one reason Spags has owned us). Defenses against us dont have to worry about anybody getting over the top of them,(thats been beat ad nauseum) allowing them to crowd the line more... but even more troublesome is not having a horizontal field stretch. No deep threat + Bad outside WR's creates a nasty venn diagram, where defenses can put 70% of their focus and personnel in shallow - intermediate & condense to the middle.... which happens to be where we are most strong. We run the ball well, that ven diagram is very favorable to a defense wanting to stop the run. We also get the majority of our passing game from inside the hashes.... same spot where the defense wants to be. We're throttling our own strengths by not having an outside guy... plus, were missing out on a ton of gains to be had on the outside. Obv there's nothing we can do to fix it now, except pray that somebody breaks out between between Moore, Coleman or Palmer. Its possible. My thing is I really feel like we're one top 20 outside WR away from being unstoppable. Dude wouldnt even need to dominate like 2020 & 2021 Diggs. We could move up and down the field, in whatever manner we would like, completely dictating the pace. Getting just a bit more consistency outta the offense, can lead to our DL getting more opportunities to just pin their ears back and rush the pass. I loved our draft though, and my God do I pray we can finally address the WR position better next year

Was Darby not a culture fit? I cant remember anything from then. Or was that a scheme fit thing? The Sammy trade at the time was bigger news to most. Was he traded after only his rookie year here?

This chat is going through a culture shock of non-buffalo events having infinitely less alcoholics. I knew I was an alcoholic in Buffalo, then I moved and realized exactly how unhealthy that cities relationship is with booze lol I live near a bar and am always shocked to see the crowds start leaving from 10-11p. When I drank, we were just finishing up pre-gaming at a house LOL Columbian Marching Powder would get the bullpen call right about midnight! Weaklings! Thank God I got sober lol def would've missed out on seeing Buff get a ring

Same ppl that cried when they found out Hulk Hogan wasnt just eating his veggies nad saying his prayers before bed LOL

Were there notable stats showing progress with Cook's hands? I'll be honest, my knee jerk reaction is 'he drops a decent amount of very catchable balls', but I wouldnt be shocked if I didn't notice/forgot over past several months. I cant specifically recall any brutal drops EDIT: nope. Im not a hater, and ill 100% give him credit for doing a ton of work rushing the ball, I think he had his best season by far (TD's skyrocketed) .... but last years receiving stats are bunk! After seeing this I especially cant justify paying him Saquan/McCaff type money. Just no way! In fact this is an incredibly mediocre pass catching season for any starting RB, let alone a premier back.

You really dodged a bullet there LOL Doctors also used to manually stimulate women for "hysteria" treatment. Maybe science evolves It's either this, or athletes stopped looking for an edge..... hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. The same pool of guys who crash drunk driving and beat up their wives, must have some unique moral code where they draw a hard line at PED's

When he said supplements, he meant TRT lol there are no supplements that work. If you have the health insurance to jump on TRT, the guy isnt wrong!! Living below your potential quality of life, because grampa used to say "rOgEr MaRis WaS tHe oNlY ReAl bAlL pLaYeR" is silly. No matter where you land on PED's in sports, theres nothing wrong AT ALL with better living through science under a doctors care. If you're done having kids, and your test is in the gutter, and you're not playing pro-ball; by all means feel free to take advantage of the medical advancements that we have

Cmon bro dont be naive. these guys all always blame it on some 'tainted' supplement. if this was true you'd see these companies going belly up OR ATLEAST shelling out settlements. Literally not one time have we seen that that I can remember. You're living in fairy tale land if you believe that guys whose lifelong dream is to be in the NFL, will give that up because theyre 40 time is .05 slower than the rest of the class. Or if you think in an industry where we regularly see 8-9 digit contracts handed out, that nobody will take a single risk to help their career, legacy, or lifetime financial stability (for them and their kids) out. How many PED tests do we see people pop yearly in the NFL? 3? 5? LOL. How about college? Any? So the entire sport of football is clean from high school to the pros? Survey's conducted in the USA found over 8% of men ages 18-25 reported using anabolic steroids (not even including SARM's or Research Chemicals)... but out of all players on NFL 53 man rosters (1,696 total), 3-5 a year use PED's. Hell 10 players popping (weve never seen that) would still only be .5% These players have 6figure - 9figure incomes, and have the easiest access of all. Meanwhile any 14yr old with $100 can get anabolics delivered to their doorstep from the internet in 3-5 days. LOL! It's way crazier to suggest what you're suggesting, than to say the NFL is full of geared-up meatheads.... and the game is better for it. Want to see a clean game won 9 - 7 ? Go to a peewee game, but like it or not, anabolics are prevalent in HS all the way up to pro and semi-pro

Not worth stressing at this point since the media has been silent about it... once the media starts to howl, it'll still take a while to be concerned; as their job is to get ppl riled up and angry. create a story outta nowhere. if there isnt even a media frenzy around it, I can reassure you there really is NO STORY to be had lol

Jamal Adams is all this. Its not 1990. As cool as all that stuff is/would be as an icing on the cake.... nobody wants a plate of icing with no cake (Adams). I dont care if he wears a pink tootoo, and slow dances runningbacks to the ground... as long as he's getting the tackle & more importantly being sound against the pass! If he can do that, then I'd also welcome Ray Lewis levels of (on-field only) violence

EEEEk. The optics of that *would be* (obv we have no way to ever know ANY of this) infinitely worse than its just his personal stash & he's only sharing lol I didnt even think of that. Thats an Epstein, Diddy, Weinstein move to pull.

This isnt surprising to me. If theres one group i trust this FO in, its the secondary. We saw Bernard look lost and overwhelmed year one. Seems like its a tough rookie year leap in this scheme, but they have a knack for finding high IQ ball players. Let's all hope his slow play last year was due to processing, and we see a major corner getting turned. Man thatd be huge!

Wait, this isnt an actual contract language issue is it? Or youre just saying teams are like "hey youre already getting paid for 2025, so sign here on the cheap, no double dipping" kinda thing. Unless the landing place really serves him well for his next contract, he should tell those teams to kick rocks LOL

Anybody ever worked at an awful company: no-morale, dog-chit job, dimly lit, scowling faces everywhere... and then you get hired at a place where the environment is friendly, boss knows your name and gives you a little warm intro to the rest of the staff.... then you find your desk is right near a genuinely fun to be around kinda dude with similar interests. you look around and ppl are smiling! the cars at your new job's parking are a fairly new looking, compared to the old place with a bungee cords strapping the hood down & trash bags over busted windows.. Yeah, thats what Moore is going through. Dude was uber talented on a tier 1 college team, and landed on two pure trashpile organizations... with awful yet somehow still arrogant Coaches.... his best QB was post-accusation Watson, who's just there to cash his check. Anywho, Moore is experiencing a culture shock for the better. No matter what; I think we get every last drop of juice the guy has in the tank. It's possible we find out there isnt much juice in there, but a good coach's job is to find out and wring the sponge hard. I have no doubt coach is going to have any easy time extracting WHATEVER is in the tank on Moore. Dude is getting a Grade-A crack at receiving the 2nd most targets, on a Josh Allen led team! Hell, Im stoked for him as a person alone.

they have literally ZERO recourse to do this... even if someone(and the crew hes with isnt) went to NFL to tell them about drug use. I bet they get that alllllll the time, former baby mamas and assistant who got stiffed on their last check. Hell, the cops cant/wont do much about a tip that somebody is selling, let alone just using. NFLPA has agreed to the recreational testing once an offseason, during a certain window. Once you pass that, its game on till the following year.

Where was this tip back before I got clean in 2020 LOL probably some stepped on trash anyways

Likely this.... that said, he might be smart to avoid facilities and any "random" drug tests (if he hasnt yet taken his 'annual window' test). Then again, Id imagine once these guys freshly pass their annual test, while TC is still a ways out...... is probably the "best" time to go apeshiiiii on whatever vices you have

If your hedge is "we're going to carry healthy Bosa into the playoffs as our primary weapon on defense",than yes, you're an idiot.... but thats not what happened and the contract numbers + draft tell us that. Bosa signing was 'prepare as if hes not on the team. Our rookie DL class and the PEDtwins should be firing on all cylinders BUUUUUUUTTTTTT.... wouldnt it be sick if bubble wrapped Joey was healthy for the playoffs as the cherry on top". Im still fine with it. Basically pretend hes not there, and when/if we get him than cool!

Id argue Cole Beasley was the 2nd most important player his first 2-3years here. Cool thing with a good slot is volume. Cole had volume for days. Was like a super running back, in that he got tons of touches and was great at getting us to: 2nd-n-short, or more importantly converting 3rd downs. I tend to agree with you. i know an outside guy effects the entire defense more than a slot..... but a slot who gets volume is my fav type of weapon. its steady and reliable. watched brady use that for 2 decades