Returntoglory Posted Monday at 08:43 PM Posted Monday at 08:43 PM (edited) OOOpsie Daisy! https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/44480727/buffalo-bills-stall-contract-negotiations-james-cook Edited Monday at 08:44 PM by Returntoglory Spelling error 1 Quote
Draconator Posted Monday at 08:50 PM Posted Monday at 08:50 PM 6 minutes ago, Returntoglory said: OOOpsie Daisy! https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/44480727/buffalo-bills-stall-contract-negotiations-james-cook This is a nothing burger. Some ESPN AI Bot took Beane's comments, and created a click-bait article that's sure to get TBD talking and up to 50 pages. 9 1 13 1 Quote
balln Posted Monday at 09:12 PM Posted Monday at 09:12 PM 22 minutes ago, Draconator said: This is a nothing burger. Some ESPN AI Bot took Beane's comments, and created a click-bait article that's sure to get TBD talking and up to 50 pages. But can we sign OBJ ?! 3 Quote
Mr. WEO Posted Monday at 09:17 PM Posted Monday at 09:17 PM 26 minutes ago, Draconator said: This is a nothing burger. Some ESPN AI Bot took Beane's comments, and created a click-bait article that's sure to get TBD talking and up to 50 pages. Beane’s words didn’t sound like AI as they did leave his mouth 1 1 Quote
BuffaloMatt Posted Monday at 09:17 PM Posted Monday at 09:17 PM Good. I suspect after the 1st six games or so this coming season depending on early performance a deal gets done. If not, tag him. Blame the CBA not me. Quote
Don Otreply Posted Monday at 09:22 PM Posted Monday at 09:22 PM Yup, exactly what I stated in a thread yesterday, I as well suspect more noise from Cook will get him traded during the draft, jmo, Beane don’t play that she ite, 1 4 Quote
Logic Posted Monday at 09:22 PM Posted Monday at 09:22 PM It would be far more accurate to say "Bills GM says contract with Cook not likely before NFL draft", but where are the clicks in that? This is a great lesson in how the way that you word a headline can make the news contained within seem much more loaded and nefarious sounding than it really was, even if it's technically accurate. 6 3 1 Quote
Joe Marino Posted Monday at 09:44 PM Posted Monday at 09:44 PM Kid was so stupid. And don’t pretend the Bills won’t curtail his reps. It only makes sense to get Davis and Johnson more involved! Not gonna be a fun season for Jimbo… 1 1 2 1 Quote
BuffaloBillyG Posted Monday at 09:48 PM Posted Monday at 09:48 PM 1 minute ago, Joe Marino said: Kid was so stupid. And don’t pretend the Bills won’t curtail his reps. It only makes sense to get Davis and Johnson more involved! Not gonna be a fun season for Jimbo… If he does any kind of hold out/hold in he may make it harder on himself then he should have. Common to see guys coming out of that situation suffer from soft tissue injury that hampers them for chunks of the season as well. 1 Quote
Mikie2times Posted Monday at 09:49 PM Posted Monday at 09:49 PM (edited) 2 hours ago, Logic said: It would be far more accurate to say "Bills GM says contract with Cook not likely before NFL draft", but where are the clicks in that? This is a great lesson in how the way that you word a headline can make the news contained within seem much more loaded and nefarious sounding than it really was, even if it's technically accurate. James Cook’s Future Hanging by a Thread as GM Puts Down the Iron Fist Edited Monday at 11:33 PM by Mikie2times 1 1 8 2 1 Quote
MJS Posted Monday at 09:55 PM Posted Monday at 09:55 PM 5 minutes ago, Joe Marino said: Kid was so stupid. And don’t pretend the Bills won’t curtail his reps. It only makes sense to get Davis and Johnson more involved! Not gonna be a fun season for Jimbo… I'm sure they'll use him as much as they can in his final year, but if he becomes a distraction they'll trade him somewhere and draft another RB. Davis, Johnson, and a promising rookie will be just fine. However, I bet Cook caves on his demands and accepts something more like $11 million per season, perhaps with some unlikely to achieve incentives that could bump him to $15 milliom to save face. Quote
WotAGuy Posted Monday at 09:59 PM Posted Monday at 09:59 PM Chris Brown: “LET JAMES COOK….AND BOIL OVER AND BURN UP!!” 1 1 Quote
boyst Posted Monday at 10:01 PM Posted Monday at 10:01 PM If anyone ever wonders about the downfalls of sports journalism just give them the link to this article. 2 Quote
DrDawkinstein Posted Monday at 10:03 PM Posted Monday at 10:03 PM 5 minutes ago, MJS said: I'm sure they'll use him as much as they can in his final year, but if he becomes a distraction they'll trade him somewhere and draft another RB. Davis, Johnson, and a promising rookie will be just fine. However, I bet Cook caves on his demands and accepts something more like $11 million per season, perhaps with some unlikely to achieve incentives that could bump him to $15 milliom to save face. To that end, we have no idea what Beane's initial offer looked like. If it's in the same vein of team-friendly deals, it could have been $8M-10M/yr. Cook says "$15M". All this drama happens and he "caves" for $11M-12M. All the old man social media fans will blast Cook and say he looks like a fool for settling for less than $15M. But he may have just as easily earned himself an extra $2M-4M/yr for all we know. 2 Quote
Billzgobowlin Posted Monday at 10:06 PM Posted Monday at 10:06 PM 20 minutes ago, Joe Marino said: Kid was so stupid. And don’t pretend the Bills won’t curtail his reps. It only makes sense to get Davis and Johnson more involved! Not gonna be a fun season for Jimbo… He should not have gone public and shouldn't have set the bar that high. I'm guessing Beane says prove you are worth 15 million a year next year. He needs to be a difference maker on offense and he's not there yet. 1 1 1 Quote
Big Turk Posted Monday at 10:07 PM Posted Monday at 10:07 PM (edited) This is the same thing Beane himself said but with a spin put on it Edited Monday at 10:07 PM by Big Turk 1 1 Quote
Mikie2times Posted Monday at 10:10 PM Posted Monday at 10:10 PM 2 minutes ago, DrDawkinstein said: To that end, we have no idea what Beane's initial offer looked like. If it's in the same vein of team-friendly deals, it could have been $8M-10M/yr. Cook says "$15M". All this drama happens and he "caves" for $11M-12M. All the old man social media fans will blast Cook and say he looks like a fool for settling for less than $15M. But he may have just as easily earned himself an extra $2M-4M/yr for all we know. It's silly that people are so riled up about it. If my old man was buying a 10k used car he would start with "how much are you paying me to take this piece of crap". He's just negotiating. 5 minutes ago, Billzgobowlin said: He should not have gone public and shouldn't have set the bar that high. I'm guessing Beane says prove you are worth 15 million a year next year. He needs to be a difference maker on offense and he's not there yet. Why? He has one contract that will matter the rest of his life. He knows Beane was going to come in with the bargain deal. He doesn't want the bargain deal and wanted to be very clear in how he communicated that. As far as I can tell he did exactly what he wanted to do and likely what will generate him the most money. I can't remember nearly any player who took this approach and at the end of it everybody was saying what a mistake that player made. They all said the same things about Lamar Jackson. In the end Lamar did just fine and Cook will as well. 1 1 Quote
RiotAct Posted Monday at 10:16 PM Posted Monday at 10:16 PM this is how the chain of events got started that culminated in Pearl Harbor 9 1 Quote
Buffalo ill Posted Monday at 10:17 PM Posted Monday at 10:17 PM I hope he gets a deal he can live with from the Bills and continues to make big plays for them. 1 Quote
Mikie2times Posted Monday at 10:19 PM Posted Monday at 10:19 PM 2 minutes ago, RiotAct said: this is how the chain of events got started that culminated in Pearl Harbor At least somebody here has a clear head 2 Quote
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