DrDawkinstein

Are we still trying to tell the NFL MVP how to play football from our couches?

Bad news guys: Cook only played 46% of the snaps on Sunday. TOTAL BOTCH JOB BY BEANE RE-SIGNING THIS BUM!

Is Joe Brady mad at Jackson Hawes?

I'm feeling glad we have Dolphins, Saints, Patriots the next 3 weeks.

I dont think they were as different as you're making them out to be, considering the below. People seem to be forgetting that the Bears are the Bears, and have been really Bearing it up the last 3-5 years especially. It was always a 50/50 shot with Johnson on his own. We'll see. They have to move on from Poles. And really, that's only going to do so much. They REALLY have to move on from the McCaskeys. Word is they are more likely to sell now that Virginia passed.

If they end up with a top-10 pick, I could see Johnson pushing to move on from Caleb as early as next year. Especially if they bring in a new GM. Then Caleb isnt tied to either of them, and neither of them will want their HC/GM careers tied to a QB they didnt even pick.

Yeah, it's the coach that has been there for all of 9 months

JFC...

Yeah, the league effed him bigly And Im ok with that

It comes with the position. LBs get hurt a lot. They're basically in a laundry machine with boulders when those big Guards can come hit them with a head of steam. Zach Thomas, for example, was always injured. You'd think he'd be a bit luckier, but I'm never surprised when I hear about an injured LB.

Agreed. He had a decent run stop but seemed like a liability in coverage which had previously been a strength of his. On the busted coverage play to the Jets TE, Milano ran into our own guy and took him out of coverage. Not sure we're really losing much here at this point. Either way, 5 cupcakes until KC. Let him rest.

This is what happened: https://sports.yahoo.com/nfl-added-sentence-rulebook-curb-160313266.html In 2024, the NFL clarified its rules on "cheat motion," a tactical pre-snap movement popularized by Miami Dolphins coach Mike McDaniel and other Shanahan-tree coaches The new rulebook language specifies that a backfield player in motion cannot legally move forward at the snap to gain momentum, explicitly defining and restricting a tactic that was previously in a grey area. The clarified "cheat motion" rule The new language was added to Rule 7, Section 4, Article 2 of the official rulebook to state: "Any eligible backfield player who changes his stance does not have to come to a complete stop prior to the snap, as long as his actions are not abrupt (false start) or forward (illegal motion)"

Pretty sure both Grier and McDaniel will be fired after a loss to the Bills this Thursday. Good time for Ross to do it with the longer week for the interims to settle in. From there, any dummy can make the call to trade Hill away for a bag of footballs. Chiefs will probably take any firepower at this point.

Dean Blandino on the broadcast...

Quite a take, and I wont roast you. But I will say, I'd rather bring back Daboll as OC than bring in McDaniel. I think after they banned his cheating double-motion thing, his scheme is donzo regardless where he is. He'd probably do best going back to SF where Shanahan can help fill in the gaps and develop him to the next level now that his one trick doesnt work anymore.

I was cracking up at all the "Mike McD-OVER" jokes

I have a hard time enjoying it while seeing the Eagles allowed to false start on every Tush Push. The NFL better get this addressed before we play them. And better not wait until after the Eagles beat us in the playoffs (Super Bowl) to fix it like they've historically done.

LOTS of Andrew Luck comparisons being thrown around on various platforms today. The problem for Joe is, he's only in year 1 of that new, big money contract. So he cant walk away anytime soon without having to give back some signing bonus/guaranteed money. And you KNOW Mike Brown is coming after every penny he can get back.

Is it worth it to do what we did to the Pats last year and just let them win in order to screw them? Let's face it, the division is still ours.

The new regime next year will be stuck with Tua for at least one more year. Which may be ok for them if he serves as a bridge for whoever they draft early next year. Tua has a cap hit of $56M, and dead cap of $99M if released, next season. But they can get out of the contract in 2027 and save over $20M (while absorbing a dead cap of $32M) Love to see it. Only way it would have been better is if the Pats paid Mac Jones too.

You missed the obvious! Kirk: Peter, how has Miami's Defense looked tonight? Peter: Ruff! Kirk: Peter, how are things going for Mike McDaniel this year? Peter: Ruff!

Mike Brown kicking himself for paying Tee Higgins now that they'll have a top 10 pick and could've just reloaded with another top WR, again! Maybe they'll pick an OL to protect their QB, but doubt it.

They're probably not too thrilled with having to get all their personal stories ready as they work hard to vamp and fill air time through an entire 2nd half of a blow out.

This is a greater revision than anything else posted so far. Maybe not for your specific posts, but you can certainly go through the many pages of the many threads we had here on the subject, and you will mainly see angry Bills fans working extra hard to disparage Cook as a person and a player, most of the time wildly inaccurately. You will see far more posts about how he isnt even worth $10M year, all the things he cant do, how he's nothing special, how we should trade him away while we can, or punish him by running him into the ground this year and wearing out his body or even injuring him before we let him walk. Any reasonable posts like yours, or @Doc Brown's stance, were the tiny minority. And even then, at this point, had we signed him to $17M/yr and sent the fanbase into a conniption, by week 2 we'd still all be here saying it looks like a good deal now. So lets not revise what was said and pretend the fanbase was totally reasonable and just worried about getting the number right. The personal attacks speak for themselves. I wasnt the one who bumped this thread, and I never intended to, and I wont go back and quote the many, MANY posts that were just bitter and wrong. But they still exist. It's difficult to take anyone seriously who is worried about a couple extra mil on Cook's contract and what that does to the cap, when we have contracts out there like Knox and Samuel. If cash/cap allocation is your main issue, then start somewhere else. Paying our best players aint it. We could have paid Cook 4/$60M+ and be fine. It isnt that contract holding us back.