Maine-iac

Cooper wasn't lighting the world on fire in the regular season but he had a couple of decent games with us. What I had a problem with was that he completely disappeared in the playoffs.

Wonder if this thread will make 161 pages like last years WR extravaganza. Some great takes in that thread. I'd like a WR in the draft but I'm with most people saying CB and DT early. Some people liked him last year and somehow I'm not seeing much noise for him this year but Tory Horton is still out there. Still ran a decent 40 after his injury. Might be a nice pick available after we have a CB and a DT.

Is he going to do more than the 13 seconds game? Money doesn't buy you happiness and offense doesn't guarantee you wins. It does help a lot. Still not a guarantee.

Not including Rogers who is probably a future hall of famer, 2 out of the 3 teams you are using here had a QB that made the playoffs this year with another team. So as you would say your point gets lost immediately here ........

Yet here we are in the playoffs every year and a top team in scoring as well. Top 5 on that list have how many playoff visits out of 25 chances?

I didn't justify it.

I'll bite. Tell me why Pola-Mao is a better safety? Or maybe Jason Pinnock? I'm certainly onboard that you shouldn't go into a season with Hamlin as your starter but I'd say the same thing about Rapp and if Bishop hasn't improved I'd say the same thing about him. If you're starting Cam Lewis at safety you probably have problems also. We have almost an entire roster of back up safeties and our best hope for legit starters are Bishop or maybe Forrest. I'll never understand why so many hate Hamlin and are complete apologists for Rapp. Bishop was a rookie who missed time early so he gets some slack but hopefully he's better this year.

I love Cook. I don't think he's worth the 15 million but if Beane gave it to him we'd be better off than Knox and his contract. That said if Knox had been in the media saying he was worth 15 million I'd say he's not also. This organization has shown time and time again it will pay it's players even more than they probably needs to. It's the spouting off in the media that I don't get. I guess I'm just a fan of the quiet millionaire.

Not sure Dalvin is a good career coach. Sure he got a big contract but that same contract probably got him cut, on his way to the Jets, and out of the league.

Coy Wire?

That's a lot of claims with little to back it up. Please tell me about Rapp's lockdown coverage and Cole getting beat making plays some more.

If you look at rating when targeted Hamlin was better than Cole, Rapp, or Douglas and was only .3 worse than Cam Lewis. Which is why in part arguing that any of them are good enough as starters and then saying Hamlin shouldn't be on the team seems crazy. Cole needs to be improved and it needs to show. Rapp should not be a starter. Rapp and Hamlin are interchangeable in that they both should be veteran back ups that know the defense, can make a tackle, but better passing attacks are going to take advantage of them.

4th quarter carries. Cook 37 for a 2.4 yard average. Davis 53 for a 3.1 yard average. Davis averages less per carry because they give him the carries at the end of the game to run out the clock. More than half of Davis's caries were 4th quarter running out the clock carries. If you look half to half Davis averages 5.3 and Cook averages 5.8. It's certainly plausible that Davis just gets a much larger percentage of grind the game out carries otherwise their averages would be far more similar. Do I think Cook is a better home run back? Yes. Do I want to pay him 15 million? Not for a second. Am I undervaluing him? No. He's not worth 15 million. If he runs his mouth all offseason and signs a 13 million dollar extension then good for him and welcome back. He runs his mouth all offseason they offer him 12 he doesn't like it and they eventually trade him away I'll wish him good luck and Davis will run somewhere around 1,000 yards and put up double digit TD's.

Cook was out for the Jets game I was at and Davis ran for 97 yards had another 55 receiving. There's alot of positions where our starter is out and I'm worried it will effect our whole game plan. Cook is out and Davis starting does not instantly make me think we can't run our offense. I'd love to have Cook back and I'm not against him trying to get paid but I think everyone knows we are not toothless without him in the offense.

I think (for me) a large thing Cook doesn't understand is that from what most people have seen if you put him out there 3 downs and he's missing blocks and Allen gets hit several times because Cook can't pass block he's going to embarrass himself. The way we take him off the field because of his pass blocking is almost a tell about whether we are running or not.