BigDingus

Seems like everyone was seeing clearly just a few weeks ago... 😅

Man, everyone seemed to agree with you at the time, but suddenly everyone is all celebrating his signing. I don't get it... We KNOW he's going to be injured & miss several games, and it's doubtful he'll give us more than 6 sacks. If he was signed for like $6 million or something, I'd be fine with it.

I'm sorry, this just reminds me of when we signed another often-injured, past his prime Charger - Shawne Merriman. Thankfully, it's only one year, but he'll almost certainly give us less production than Leonard Floyd did 2 years ago, but for more money.

So who will have a bigger impact? Bosa or Cook? Because people don't want to pay Cook close to this much money, yet they're fine with giving it to an often injured, about to 30 DE... with a whopping 13 sacks over the last 3 seasons. But yeah, great money spent! It makes no sense.

I don't get it, why? 4 million a year for what he gave us? That looks like a steal compared to what we've paid WRs that accomplished much less.

He could also see a dip in his numbers due to Allen & the system here, just as Curtis Samuel did (worst season in his career) or Amari Cooper (barely averaged 2 receptions a game). I think our system is more centered around running the ball now, which is reflected in the passing & receiving numbers being down so much (especially Josh's). Which is all the more reason I feel Cook should've been one of the first people paid, as he was our best weapon & the person to take the most pressure off of Josh.

No idea, but his TDs have gone down every year since he was a rookie. 2021: 4 TDs 2022: 3 TDs 2023: 2 TDs 2024: 1 TD Here's to 0 TDs in 2025 to cap things off! 😂

Neat. The one WR we get in FA every year who we all hope breaks out. Maybe this time it'll actually happen.

Tisk, tisk... He should've played out his contract to give us more time to see what he can do! What if he ends up a bust like Elam? Bad move by Bills brass.

I'd rather they extend Cook over most of those guys, especially given he's been more productive & would cost less money than someone like Rousseau.

I doubt that. I know a lot of people think "tariffs will only add 10% to the cost of the end product!" or "if supplies aren't coming from tariffed countries, no issues!" but that's not what happens (not saying YOU specifically). Add 10%+ to every bit of manufacturing & distribution up & down the supply chain, plus whatever price increases these guys will add to keep their expected margins, keep up with expected inflation, or simply take advantage of the opportunity to raise costs. Then you factor in if these companies use labor, shipping or whatever from affected countries at any point in the chain. A company may be importing materials from a country outside of tariffs, but that doesn't mean who they're importing from doesn't have their own costs tied in with another tariffed country. And given how interconnected so many of these companies/countries are, always looking for the cheapest route possible while increasing their own margins, prices go up across the board & leak into other markets.

And that's what happens when you drag your feet doing something we all knew was going to happen eventually. Imagine paying nearly $1 billion more than the Cowboys did for AT&T stadium (or $300 million accounting for inflation) and getting significantly less for the investment. Then again, looks like we're on our way to a recession at this point, with prices skyrocketing for everything & wages falling even further behind. Guess I can't be too hard on them. We're all feeling it.

Huge waste imo. I'm in the minority, but we were already paying Rousseau almost as much as Cook wants, yet Cook has a much bigger impact than Groot. But people are still of the mindset RBs are a dime a dozen, despite the fact we struggled to find a RB for years (and despite the SB champs proving how valuable a good run game is). This year was our most productive offense ever, but since it wasn't all high-flying passing through Josh, people dismiss it. Meanwhile, our middling defense who gives up historically high numbers in their playoff losses, is getting rewarded with extensions at various positions. If there's one thing I've learned it's that you could remove the weakest link on D & replace him with a great player, yet come playoff time, the D performs the same. That's because unlike our offense, the D is consistently stuck with McD. The offense gets retooled & new coordinators can come in, but D stays the same. I put this in another thread, but tell me which group has had DEFINITIVELY a bigger impact: A) Edmunds, Oliver, Groot, Basham, Elam, Epenesa, B) Milano, Bernard, Benford, Hamlin, T. Johnson, D. Williams I'd say it's pretty even. But people want us to use more early picks on D and extend these guys, then just hope McD & Beane finally land a star.

Sounds (and looks like) a Mormon dude I know. And given that he's from Utah, I think I'm not too far off...

But even when we had prime Poyer, Hyde & White (along with Milano & Edmunds), our D still looked the same in the playoffs. The best game they ever had against a good QB was against the Ravens in the Divisional round. The 4 losses to the Chiefs & 1 to the Bengals looked the same regardless of who we had out there, all because McDermott.

So when they inevitably do not reach their goal, what then? Do they have to lower prices or do they just wait it out? They better hope the team stays a competitor & Josh stays healthy for as long as possible (well, we all hope that), because good luck selling those PSLs if we ever hit another drought.

It does not matter. There's a reason you don't pull your season-long starter QB & replace him with the backup come playoff time. No other team is dumb enough to do that.

Eh, I disagree. No matter what kind of players we have on D, it's still coached by McD & still fails to show up in the playoffs. Would anyone say our safeties are better than prime Hyde & Poyer? Definitely not, yet they performed pretty much the same come playoff time. I'm not saying it's hopeless, but our defense has been historically bad in these last 5 losses. Whether McDermott goes heavy D in the 1st or 2nd, the end result ends up the same because he still coaches the same & goes after the same types of players. Did Ed, Groot, Basham & Elam have more impact than Hamlin, Bernard, Benford & Williams? Maybe slightly, but those 1st & 2nd round picks haven't really been much more impactful come playoff time than the picks we took later in the draft. In my opinion, might as well keep taking shots at giving Josh the best weapons possible. The offense is the only thing that really has a chance to change & improve year over year, and it's lead by our best player. In a perfect world, Josh would've been paired with a great offensive coach, then if the D isn't carrying its weight, we could replace the coordinator & start over. But we're stuck with McDermott's D no matter what. We've seen 6 years of McDermott's D suck in the playoffs, while Josh shows up. Spent a 1st round pick on Edmunds & he's just solid. Spent a 5th on Milano & he became a stud. You just never know, but I've yet to see McDermott find a huge impact player in the 1st round outside of Josh, but we've seen him do so in the later rounds.

1. Allen 2. Kelly 3. Bledsoe 4. Kemp 5. Ferguson 6. Flutie 7. Fitz 8. Tyrod 9. Reich 10. Alex Van Pelt

How does an onside kick mean a team is "getting beat the whole game?" The exact opposite could happen, and the team going for the onside kick could've been in the lead most of the game, only for the other team to go on a tear at the end. Or it could be a back & forth game, only for a team to commit a turnover & get another score behind. Maybe it's just a team wanting to surprise someone with their pants down & kick an onside kick to start the 3rd quarter. Unfortunately, you can't do that anymore under the current rules. Onside kicks have been part of the game for ages, only now they've been neutered to the point that they're practically useless.

Exactly. It doesn't really change much. Here's this from ESPN - Among other changes, the NFL plans to use its virtual measuring system to determine first downs in 2025. This wouldn't eliminate the officials who manually spot the ball and use chains to mark the line to gain. The optimal tracking system notifies officiating instantly if a first down was gained after the ball is spotted by hand. "We used this in the background last season," said Kimberly Fields, the NFL's senior vice president of football operations. "The goal for 2025 is to continue to train our techs, who are the ones who will be utilizing the technology, finalizing all of our officiating processes and procedures around virtual measurements and testing the graphics for the broadcast and in-stadium, so fans in the stadium and fans watching on television can see what we're doing. The chain crew will still be there as backup." So yeah, apparently this was already in use last year. Not sure why they insist on keeping the chain gang or all the other nonsense. Just use the concrete tracking data & stop dicking around already.

Out of all those, I do not think Rousseau is worth $23 million a year. He's good enough, sometimes, but he disappears in too many games. He's not a real force that demands constant attention. It's like Ed. Sometimes good, seems good in advanced stats, but then you don't see him do much in a lot of games.

He definitely will be a HOFer. I wouldn't be surprised if he was 1st Ballot, even if it's uncommon for OL to get that honor. He was 1st or 2nd team All-Pro 6 times and a 9 x Pro Bowler. Dude had insane longevity too. Playing OL at age 43? That's crazy.

Tee Higgins - 4 out of 5 seasons with 900+ yards, though he missed 5 games each of the last 2 years. Peerless Price - 2 out of 4 seasons with 800+ yards, though he did have that one 1,200 yard season. But to put things in perspective, Price only had 5,281 receiving yards in his 9 year career. Higgins is already at 4,595 yards in his 5 year career. I know people might think his numbers are good because he plays opposite of Chase, but he had 900+ yards his rookie year prior to Chase's arrival. Imagine if the Vikings somehow drafted Jefferson while keeping Diggs (yes, I know they used the extra pick in the Diggs trade but just hypothetically). Jefferson still would've blown up & become the WR1, but Diggs still would've been capable of being a WR1 on another team. I think this is more along those lines. Higgins isn't AS good as Chase, but he still has the talent & skillset to become a true WR1 on another team.

Exactly. This isn't about trying to give the offense more of an advantage or increase scoring, this is definitely to encourage teams actually kick the ball in play & increase returns.