MJS

I don't really know what the "$30 million in total guarantees" actually means. Since it is a contract extension, I guess it means that his entire contract, including the already existing contract, has/had $30 million in guarantees. But what he got guaranteed at signing of the extension was only $15.28 million. If we cut James Cook right now, the Bills would have $15.6 million in dead money. I don't think he has $30 million in guaranteed money included in the $46 million that was part of the extension. It is just reported in a way to make Cook and his agent look like they got more than they actually did. These are his details: Career Earnings: $13,256,782 Career APY: $4,418,927 Potential Earnings: $55,527,782 Total Guarantees: $18,376,594 So, is the $30 million simply a rough combination of his career earnings up to this point plus his total future guarantees of $18 million (15 from his new extension and 3 from existing)?

Cook didn't get what he was asking for and the guaranteed money reported was false. He only got $15 million gaurenteed at signing.

Being athletic doesn't make you a good coverage player. Dorian Williams is very athletic, but he is weak in coverage as well. Coverage is more about intuition and feeling route progressions as they develop.

They're not testing general athleticism. RAS means Relative Athletic Score. The relative piece means relative to other players in your exact same position group, not relative to anyone outside your position group.

It's obvious that was not their plan. They brought in Bosa, re-signed Rousseau, and kept Epenesa. Jackson is supposed to develop for the future.

Except he is super athletic and explosive.

He has been lining up with Sanders a lot playing 1 tech so far. But regardless, they want all the defenisve linemen to be penetrating and getting up field to the QB.

It only counts if you occupy blockers if you hold your ground somewhat, which is what he did not do.

He's better than Carter.

Only once you have impeccable technique and leg strength like NFL kickers. At lower levels of football it is definitely a physical thing as well.

Like, a completely poverty stricken man's Josh Allen, haha.

A lot of the immediate depth like VPG, Grable, and Anderson have been hurt and not playing.

Both have been really good tonight.

Forrest has been extremely quiet. I just think he has been outplayed vy everyone else and won't make the team. They have him playing 1 tech now and he just isn't that type of player.

Hamlin signed a 1 year, $2 million deal to come back. All of it is guaranteed. Not sure where anyone is getting $7 million from.

QB: Allen, Trubisky RB: Cook, Davis, Johnson FB: Gilliam WR: Shakir, Coleman, Palmer, Moore, Samuel, Shavers TE: Kincaid, Knox, Hawes OL: Dawkins, Edwards, McGovern, Torrence, Brown, Grable, Anderson, Van Pran-Granger, Vandemark DL: Rousseau, Oliver, Jones, Bosa, Epenesa, Jackson, Solomon, Sanders, Walker LB: Bernard, Milano, Andreeson, Williams, Thompson CB: Benford, White, Johnson, Strong, Hairston, Ingram, Codrington S: Rapp, Bishop, Hancock, Lewis, Hamlin K: Bass P: Robbins LS: Ferguson Hoecht and Ogunjobi don't count util they come back from suspension. Hoecht makes it for sure, so they'll cut someone unless they have a spot free due to IR. Not sure on Ogunjobi, though. I removed White, Lundt, and Forrest.

True. And who even projected him to the first round? The sports media. Who talked him up? The sports media. They are wrong about prospects sometimes. Team evaluators weren't saying he was a first rounder. And when he continued to fall, it was sports media who made a huge deal about it. They created the storm themselves and tried to turn him into a prospect he wasn't and then created a controversy when there didn't even need to be. Sanders tanked his own draft stock with his attitude, baggage, and poor interviewing, and he didn't have the raw elite traits to warrant a risk in taking him high. So, he fell until a team decided to take him. How do you know what he told teams? He very well could have told certain teams he wouldn't play for them.

There have been many CLAIMS of collusion in the past, even recently, but very few incidences of PROVEN collusion. I find that most of these claims don't hold much water and are impossible to prove even if there is a little smoke to them. Even the Kaepernick situation. Why would any team want to take on the media storm for a declining, backup level QB? That didn't take collusion. It took common sense. Yes, they ended up settling with him, but not for very much money and probably just to make it go away. They never admitted any guilt whatsoever in that situation, nor were found guilty.

Injuries are not public knowledge. Teams are required to report very specific things at very specific times, and it can be extremely vague. They do not have to give any details to anyone. That's all teams are required to do. They have to report whether or not a player was out, limited, or a full participant in practice and they have to get an injury designation (questionable, doubtful, out) for game days. And the reasons can be extremely vague: "Josh Allen, limited, hand". No details are required.

What a bunch of nonsense.

What does that have to do with professional athletes? I really don't get the connection.

Yes, I'd do the same thing. And the stadium is owned by the state, not Pegula, so he has to pay rent to the state for it. The state invests for the income and tax revenue.

Why should he?

Good for him. Go spend that money. You can't take it with you in the end.

They still have to get through the last preseason game.