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Unless there is a BIG step up from Cook, there’s no way you can come to 2023 with him as the lead back. He’s never shown the ability to run between the tackles on any level, he doesn’t have the size and doesn’t seem to have the vision for it either. I’d look to re-up Motor or go get yourself a bell cow.

Detroit has been putting up points all year, they are not a team to take lightly with the D as banged up as it is. I think they may be able to hang with the Bills, especially if the offense sleeps through the first half like last week. If you can keep it close into the 4th, anything can happen. I wouldn’t put it past the Lions to pull a shocker.

The defender made a great play, Gilliam missed for about the 5th opportunity of the game to make a black to spring a bigger play. He looked awesome game 1 and I can’t understand what happened from there.

I think you need to find guys that aren’t #2 simply because there’s nobody on the team that should claim the role. Right now, it’s Diggs and a solid #3 in Davis, and a bunch of nobodies that are fringe NFL roster players.

they let 2 vets walk, guys that took $14M in salary last year and replaced them with 1 guy making 4M and a 5th round rookie. So you didn’t ignore WR, but it’s clear your sure as hell didn’t look to improve it either. They spent big this off-season, just not on the skill positions and it is showing. I think it’s fair to say a WR could have been picked long before the 5th round. For all the impact Cook has had, and the general lack of use for any RB on the team, it’s quite astonishing they have picked 3 running backs in the last 4 years and not a single WR earlier than any of those RBs. I’ll go so far as to almost agree the with OP, I think this was a terrible offseason for Beane and I also don’t think he’s much of a drafter in general. Without hitting on Allen, he and McClappy would not be in Buffalo at this point. They swung on a boom or bust guy and hit, that’s awesome, but for the rest of it? It’s not super impressive. I know I’m going to get crap for it, but if people were honest, there’s no way you would look back at the Drafts under Beane and take the same guys at the same place on anybody outside of Allen. He’s found some late round gems, but the first 4 rounds have not yielded much.

Wow so weird what happens when you run the ball.

Why? It’s been Allen and Diggs for 3 years, hasn’t been a difference maker outside of Beasley and he’s gone. They did absolutely nothing to help Allen in the off-season, they took away talented vets and didn’t replace them with anything near the same quality.

Is there a single play in the book that doesn’t require Allen to stand in the pocket all day?

He’s been balling out this year and I’ve been a hater. I’m also one who said our depth sucks, sure wasn’t wrong on that.

This is an embarrassment. Starting to feel like the coaches have lost the team.

We are becoming the Packers, spend money on everything we don’t need and continue to waste a great QB. They did it for 3 HOF QBs, I really don’t care what people think, MCBeane is a losing duo, Carolina never got it done and they aren’t going to either, unless they can evolve. So far I see no evidence of change. They are looking like the Panthers in Cam’s MVP year, Ted Ginn was the #1 WR and they relied on Cam to do everything. They spent stupid amounts of money on the D, brought in Olsen, said 1 weapon is good enough, got a lot of regular season wins and when Cam couldn’t carry the whole team, they lost, sound familiar?

Honestly, I think he can play in the league, might not be a star, but he’s definitely got talent.

I am feeling 183 yards. He’s going to single handedly destroy the D, but there will be a late game take away to seal it and Allen will actually play well this week, passing for 420 yards, 38 yards rushing, 4TDs.

Ummm yeah.. I literally explained what the cap hit would be, there’s plenty of options to free up that tiny amount.

You don’t understand the cap if you think we can’t afford that. It’s not difficult to do it at all, it’s all in the structure. He’s going to get a sizable signing bonus and a vet min contract, multiple years, void after this year. Every game he doesn’t play is less he’s getting. My bet, somebody signs him to a 4 year deal, 5M signing bonus, vet min, voided at year end. He gets $5.4M, team gets difference maker, cap hit of $1.5M for 6 regular season games.

So replacing 2 veterans with 1, who isn’t valued by the rest of the league for as much as either of the guys you lost and drafting a 5th round rookie is “doing something”. Salary doesn’t mean anything, so I suppose that’s why the big FA signing needed 17M a year to sign. Get real, your argument is an utter farce.

They lost Beasely and Sanders and only added Crowder. Mind you, Crowder was such a low priority guy, he took less than half of what Beasley was scheduled to make this year. So they rid themselves of $14M in salary and spent $4M back. They chose Hope as a strategy and here we are. They hoped Crowder would FINALLY stay healthy, that Davis was a legit 2, that a 5th round rookie or one of their other late round fliers was going to take a role. None of it happened, so exactly what would you say is wrong about his complaint on doing nothing at WR?

Dodson was a complete liability vs the Vikes, not sure what game you were watching.

Remind me again, is it harder to score two TDs or a TD and a FG when you’re coming back? I thought that was aggressive for no reason, especially if Josh wasn’t going to be willing to run, which it looked like he wasn’t.

Agreed, but Kumero was the best option we had behind Diggs/Davis, not sure how fans are so blindly defensive of everything McBeane does.

At least you are honest.

So we have exactly zero outside WR depth, where are all the geniuses that claimed there was a “Stacked” WR room?

Just getting him cleared to play so there is no injury settlement when he’s released.

Would not be a shock if he’s back, after last week, there’s no doubt Dodson was a massive liability.

Clearly it is time to hire and you strength and conditioning coach, all these injuries, now this? Not even strong enough to fight off a cold. Ridiculous.