Eagles reset RB market, extend Barkley.

[Buffalo_Stampede]

 

[QCity]

That is not "resetting" the RB market 😂

[ColoradoBills]

I know this a touchy subject with Bills fans, but I'm OK giving Cook $12.5M AAV which makes him the 4th highest in the league.

I wouldn't do anything more than that.

 

Cook along with players like Spencer Brown and Shakir need to have their cap pushed out to make room for a 3-4 year run with Josh.

[Buffalo_Stampede]

1 minute ago, QCity said:

That is not "resetting" the RB market 😂

It definitely does.

[appoo]

Just now, Buffalo_Stampede said:

It definitely does.

Ain't no other Saquon Barkley's out there. I love Cook but he's probably two tiers below Barkley

[Magox]

I made this case multiple times that Running backs are undervalued and you will see those valuations increased.  Many disagreed.

 

They were wrong.

 

 

[Buffalo_Stampede]

Just now, appoo said:

Ain't no other Saquon Barkley's out there. I love Cook but he's probably two tiers below Barkley

$15 million is a lot less than $20 million.

 

 

[Magox]

4 minutes ago, ColoradoBills said:

I know this a touchy subject with Bills fans, but I'm OK giving Cook $12.5M AAV which makes him the 4th highest in the league.

I wouldn't do anything more than that.

 

Cook along with players like Spencer Brown and Shakir need to have their cap pushed out to make room for a 3-4 year run with Josh.

I used to think he was going to get around $12m.  Now I think it will be closer to $14m

[FireChans]

I think the Eagles are gonna make a player trade. 

[Magox]

Just now, Buffalo_Stampede said:

$15 million is a lot less than $20 million.

 

 

$20.6m to be exact

[SCBills]

Cook just changed his pinned post to 20M 

 

And no, this doesn't make it more sensical for us to pay a smaller, more slender, RB that can't play 3 downs anything more than 10-12M per year (and even that I wouldn't do, but I'm sure Beane would)

 

 

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[TheBeaneBandit]

1 minute ago, Magox said:

I made this case multiple times that Running backs are undervalued and you will see those valuations increased.  Many disagreed.

 

They were wrong.

 

 

There's a legendary movie quote in there somewhere 😆. Well done.

[Process]

Lol BYE

 

 

[Buffalo_Stampede]

Just now, Magox said:

I used to think he was going to get around $12m.  Now I think it will be closer to $14m

His value is somewhere around 4-5% of the cap. $14 million is probably the right answer.

[Magox]

Just now, Buffalo_Stampede said:

His value is somewhere around 4-5% of the cap. $14 million is probably the right answer.

And with cap inflation and how contracts are valued it will never reach 4%.  It will be closer to 2-3% the first 3 years if he were to be extended

[appoo]

Just now, Process said:

Lol BYE

 

 

 

No one is going to give him $15M in the open market. Unless it's a team that;s not contending this year, has Cap to burn, and front load him now so he's got a smaller cap hit when they think they can contend

[FireChans]

4 minutes ago, Magox said:

I made this case multiple times that Running backs are undervalued and you will see those valuations increased.  Many disagreed.

 

They were wrong.

 

 

Using your “extend Rousseau” logic, how does this change Barkley’s percentage of the cap?

[ColoradoBills]

2 minutes ago, Magox said:

I used to think he was going to get around $12m.  Now I think it will be closer to $14m

 

It is a volatile subject.  I still think for the Bills POV it's $12.5M max.

The whole thing ends up how Cook reacts IF Beane doesn't sign him before camp.

I don't see a trade in the making right now.

[SoonerBillsFan]

3 minutes ago, SCBills said:

Cook just changed his pinned post to 20M 

 

And no, this doesn't make it more sensical for us to pay a smaller, more slender, RB that can't play 3 downs anything more than 10-12M per year (and even that I wouldn't do, but I'm sure Beane would)

 

 

Yeah, package him as partofa trade.

[Florida Bills Fanatic]

There are James Cook equivalents in the draft almost every year.  There are no equivalents for Barkley currently in the league nor in the draft this year.  Paying Barkley money to lesser players is a fools errand.  As much as I like James Cook, the Bills should either sign him to a reasonable contract or tag him for 2026 and draft his replacement.