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  Speaker 1: of Disguise Coverage, this has been one that I've kind
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  Speaker 1: of I'm not even kind of I've been meaning to
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  Speaker 1: get to for a bit, and with James Cook reported
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  Speaker 1: to mandatory mini camp today and some contract stuff that
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  Speaker 1: came out the back end of last week and into
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  Speaker 1: the weekend, it felt like even more of an impetus
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  Speaker 1: to drop this episode. Also some general housekeeping for those
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  Speaker 1: view keeping track, apologies for not doing an episode last week.
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  Speaker 1: I owe you multiple episodes either this week or next week.
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  Speaker 1: Kind of pieces some things together from a podcasting schedule standpoint,
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  Speaker 1: multiple episodes of Disguise Coverage sometime in June. It could
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  Speaker 1: be this week, could be next, I don't know, but
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  Speaker 1: keep your ears to the ground and you will stay tuned.
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  Speaker 1: But this episode is James Cook episode. Yeah, just recent
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  Speaker 1: news was kind of the impetus for it. It's been
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  Speaker 1: something that I've had on my mind really since Kam
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  Speaker 1: Moore says, at least we're on in a Dolphins or
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  Speaker 1: Bengal situation. That's very fair. This episode has been something
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  Speaker 1: that really was on my mind throughout the year as
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  Speaker 1: he not in some big like foreshadowing type of way,
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  Speaker 1: but as James Cook continued to impress, and I thought
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  Speaker 1: he improved in several areas that I wasn't expecting him
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  Speaker 1: to improve, Like even though the metrics don't really weigh
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  Speaker 1: it out, but his yards after contact is some of
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  Speaker 1: this power and contact balance that he showed this year.
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  Speaker 1: Just I thought we saw very much improve James Cook
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  Speaker 1: in twenty twenty four, then the version we saw in
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty three, and the version we saw in twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty two. And that's what you want to see with
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  Speaker 1: a player that you draft. You want to see them
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  Speaker 1: make incremental improvements or marginal improvements or significant improvements, something
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  Speaker 1: to maintain an upward trajectory, show that hey they're starting
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  Speaker 1: to put things together. Hey they're starting to improve. This
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  Speaker 1: is awesome, Like now we can keep this homegrown talent
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  Speaker 1: and continue to find success and maybe they continue to
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  Speaker 1: develop or they just have success in the system. It's
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  Speaker 1: a win win. But with the running back position. It's
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  Speaker 1: a bit of a catch twenty two for running backs themselves.
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  Speaker 1: And even if you're a fan of the running back position,
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  Speaker 1: or a fan of James Cook, or fan of running
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  Speaker 1: backs in general, we've gotten to this spot where the
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  Speaker 1: positional value for running back and this isn't really news
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  Speaker 1: or revelatory information. The positional value for running back is
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  Speaker 1: not tremendously high. Right now, we are several years removed
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  Speaker 1: from Cole Comet essentially making the same, if not more money.
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  Speaker 1: I believe in Saquon Barkley, and so it's in no
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  Speaker 1: disrespect to cole Comet, but Saquon Barkley was still an
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  Speaker 1: elite running back even though he had the injury concerns.
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  Speaker 1: You can make the case that maybe his cost was
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  Speaker 1: knocked down a bit because of the injury concerns. And
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  Speaker 1: not that cole Comet's a bad tight end, but just
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  Speaker 1: where he is amongst tight ends versus where Saquon Barkley
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  Speaker 1: is amongst running backs, those things just kind of don't
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  Speaker 1: add up. And we're still in that period for the
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  Speaker 1: running back position. Saquon Barkley has gotten paid, Derrick Henry's
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  Speaker 1: gotten paid. We saw what the Niners gave Christian McCaffrey,
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  Speaker 1: and so we're starting to see some guys get paid
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  Speaker 1: a little bit here and there, But on the large
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  Speaker 1: the running back position is not one that is tremendously
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  Speaker 1: value is valued, especially compared to what it was in
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  Speaker 1: I don't know even throughout the two thousands, but especially
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  Speaker 1: the nineties, the eighties and seventies, so on and so forth,
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  Speaker 1: with a lot of offenses went through the run game,
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  Speaker 1: they went through the running back, so on and so forth.
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  Speaker 1: And so you have this guy in James Cook, who
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  Speaker 1: somebody who spent a second round pick on, who is
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  Speaker 1: arguably the second best player on your offense, not name
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  Speaker 1: Josh Allen. I think it would be between like him
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  Speaker 1: and Dion Dawkins or Spencer Brown. If we're talking like
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  Speaker 1: everything holistically, we're talking about just pure weapons, it's between
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  Speaker 1: Cook and Shakir, And I think Shakira is awesome, but
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  Speaker 1: I mean Cook is just a stand now running back.
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  Speaker 1: I think you can have that battle a little bit
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  Speaker 1: if you wanted to kind of have that argument with yourself,
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  Speaker 1: that'd be a fun discussion. But Cook at worst is
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  Speaker 1: arguably one of the best players on the Bills offense,
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  Speaker 1: and it's not by default, it's because he's a good player.
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  Speaker 1: And granted they're not a loaded offense in terms of
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  Speaker 1: top tier eight tier talent on the offensive side of
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  Speaker 1: the ball, and so this is something, like I said,
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  Speaker 1: that was kind of just in my mind the season.
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  Speaker 1: You have this player that you drafted and you spend
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  Speaker 1: a second round pick on who's on a rookie deal,
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  Speaker 1: and he continues to improve, and that should be things
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  Speaker 1: it's like, oh, that's awesome, like can't wait to see
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  Speaker 1: them pay him or will they pay him? But then
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  Speaker 1: it's kind of almost like, well, he's a running back,
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  Speaker 1: running Max, don't get sec second contract, YadA, YadA. Then
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  Speaker 1: we get to the Chiefs game and the e and
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  Speaker 1: the playoffs, and he plays pretty well, doesn't see a ball,
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  Speaker 1: doesn't see the ball a ton in the second half
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  Speaker 1: or necessarily even in the game as much as he
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  Speaker 1: should have, especially with how Josh Allen struggled through a
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  Speaker 1: good chunk of that game, especially in the beginning. I
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  Speaker 1: thought they'd go to the run game, specifically Cook a
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  Speaker 1: little earlier. Joe Brady did not. That's a conversation for
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  Speaker 1: another time, but you end the year on that note
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  Speaker 1: with Cook having some really strong plays against the Chiefs
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  Speaker 1: and one not great pass pro rep that some people
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  Speaker 1: like to focus on. And then we go into this
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  Speaker 1: offseason and we have some comments from his brother, we
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  Speaker 1: have some comments from him, and things have been kind
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  Speaker 1: of just creeping up little by little, depending on where
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  Speaker 1: the news cycle is, where the off season cycle is,
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  Speaker 1: sometimes it's big news, sometimes swept up under the rug
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  Speaker 1: or overshadowed a little bit by whatever else is going on.
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  Speaker 1: And so again I say all this to say, I've
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  Speaker 1: been meaning to kind of get to this episode, but
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  Speaker 1: other things have been more important or of taking prominence.
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  Speaker 1: But now we're starting to get to a spot where
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  Speaker 1: I think we kind of have this conversation, especially with
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  Speaker 1: James Cook reporting to Mandatory mini camp today. And I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna switch to the banner here that follows in line
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  Speaker 1: with the episode titled The Buffalo Bills and James Cook
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  Speaker 1: Valuable skill Set and more. Also, as I normally mentioned
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  Speaker 1: on the show, I've mentioned on the socials questions, thoughts, comments, concerns,
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  Speaker 1: anything you folks have in regards to James Cook, or
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  Speaker 1: honestly anything with the Bills. Put it up into the chat.
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  Speaker 1: I will pull up anything and everything as much as
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  Speaker 1: I physically can. Super chats as always get priority because
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  Speaker 1: I respect the monetary donation, and because I see the
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  Speaker 1: color and it attracts my eyes and pulls me away
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  Speaker 1: from my notes. I see some conversation going back and forth.
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  Speaker 1: Already it looks like two people are arguing, which is
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  Speaker 1: it's just awesome. So yeah, but questions, thoughts, comments, concerns,
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  Speaker 1: put them up into the chat. I will bring them
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  Speaker 1: up as much as humanly possible throughout the show. So
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  Speaker 1: you've already meant in the chat that he jam he
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  Speaker 1: being James Cook, and I mentioned this as well, that
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  Speaker 1: he reported uh to mandatory mini camp. RJ even said this.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I'm actually surprised Cook is practicing let alone
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  Speaker 1: here for OTAs. Maybe there is a contract in the
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  Speaker 1: future for him. Yeah, Cook was asked about it today.
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  Speaker 1: He got drilled with questions maybe like six minutes, seven minutes.
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  Speaker 1: It's it's up on the bills YouTube. But he was
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  Speaker 1: kind of standard James Cook, quiet, stoic, just short, kind
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  Speaker 1: of direct answers that didn't really give you much and
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  Speaker 1: but goes about it in a way where Okay, maybe
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  Speaker 1: he's just quiet and reserved or is it like, is
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  Speaker 1: he upset? Is he angry? Maybe he kind of is?
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  Speaker 1: Is there something to read into here? But nothing really
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  Speaker 1: nuts in relations to RJ what you said. I think
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  Speaker 1: someone asked him something along the lines of, oh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: how come you're here? Why did you show up today?
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  Speaker 1: And Cook was straight up like, because I like money
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  Speaker 1: or I like getting paid in essentially in a reference
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  Speaker 1: to being fined if he wasn't showing up to mandatory
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  Speaker 1: Mini camp. So you know, I don't know how that
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  Speaker 1: makes anybody feel, but that was his answer. I'm paraphrasing,
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  Speaker 1: but it essentially was, you know, referencing that if he's
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  Speaker 1: not there, he's going to get fined, and he doesn't
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  Speaker 1: want to lose money, so he's going to show up.
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  Speaker 1: But he is there. And you can check out that
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  Speaker 1: interview today from Bill's Mandatory Mini Camp. Again, not a
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  Speaker 1: lot of details. We've known this for years. He is
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  Speaker 1: not a very chatty guy on the mic in any way,
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  Speaker 1: shape or form. Like He's just very reserved. He's quiet.
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  Speaker 1: He goes about his business a lot, and a lot
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  Speaker 1: of his comments too today at Mandatory Mini Camp. Were
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  Speaker 1: you know, whether it was him just given the right
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  Speaker 1: answer to give the right answer or not. But everything
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  Speaker 1: for him was just you know, I'm not focused on it.
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  Speaker 1: You know, my feet are on the ground here, so
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  Speaker 1: that's what I'm focused on. Just working hard, getting better,
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  Speaker 1: you know. And they were trying to feed him questions,
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  Speaker 1: you know, oh, what are you what are you looking
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  Speaker 1: for in camp? Or you know, how focused are you
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  Speaker 1: on the contract, and he was just like, I'm not.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just here to work get better every day. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I want to win, you know, hey, do you want
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  Speaker 1: to be here long term? Of course, you know I
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  Speaker 1: want to win a super Bowl here? That's my goal.
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  Speaker 1: Hey are you upset to see some other running backs
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  Speaker 1: that were getting paid this offseason? You weren't? He was like, no,
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  Speaker 1: why would I be upset at you know my peers
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  Speaker 1: doing well like that doesn't even anything to do with me.
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  Speaker 1: I'm focused on myself, just trying to get better. So
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  Speaker 1: on and so forth. Kind of Vincent repeat answers and
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  Speaker 1: actions from James Cook, and so I wanted to lead
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  Speaker 1: with that. It's kind of the table setter, you know.
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  Speaker 1: Just in case people didn't catch that, or if you
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  Speaker 1: have thoughts on it, feel free to put it up
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  Speaker 1: in the chat. I'm gonna go backwards into the chat
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  Speaker 1: a little bit now and take a peek at some
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  Speaker 1: of the comments, start to pull some things through, and
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  Speaker 1: as I do that give you a little intro for
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  Speaker 1: this episode or kind of an idea of what we're
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  Speaker 1: going to do in this episode. Got some advanced metrics
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  Speaker 1: that I want to talk about with relation to James Cook.
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  Speaker 1: Also some Ray Davis stuff. Also we're going to be
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  Speaker 1: talking about some scheme and structure stuff, James Cook's specific
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  Speaker 1: fit in this offense, how his skill set ties and
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  Speaker 1: aligns with the role that you know, the Bill's running
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  Speaker 1: backs have in this offense, and then you're talking about
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  Speaker 1: what he means and how easy it would be to
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  Speaker 1: replace him or how not easy it would be to
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  Speaker 1: replace him. I thought about doing some film for this episode,
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  Speaker 1: just in case anybody you know had that in their
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  Speaker 1: back of their mind or wants to ask. But we've
• 11:04
  Speaker 1: been getting dinged for film in random spots and I
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  Speaker 1: didn't want to deal with the complications of it. But
• 11:12
  Speaker 1: I post a ton of his tape on socials again,
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  Speaker 1: So if you want that, find me on Twitter at
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  Speaker 1: is there. Okay, but Connor says, I never thought Cook
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  Speaker 1: was the type of person to cause drama like in
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  Speaker 1: a hold out Happy Wolverine says, if Bosa is worth
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  Speaker 1: twelve and a half and Cook is way way way
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  Speaker 1: more important than him than what with a question mark
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  Speaker 1: an exclamation point, I think it really comes down to,
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  Speaker 1: is Cook way way, way way way more important given
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  Speaker 1: the positional value of an edge and what Bosa can
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  Speaker 1: be if he's healthy. Granted, the injury muddies the whole
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  Speaker 1: thing for Bosa and his injury history muddies it, but
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  Speaker 1: defining importance, I think it's a significant part of that.
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  Speaker 1: Low says, we're seeing the true difference makers be paid. Well,
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  Speaker 1: it hasn't really seeped outside of that much. I think
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  Speaker 1: it's a fair point. I think also kind of tied
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  Speaker 1: into all of this, whether rightly or wrongly, the way
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  Speaker 1: Cook has gone about it or about his contract demands.
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  Speaker 1: And we're gonna get into the contract specifics. It's the
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  Speaker 1: first thing I'm gonna lead off here. I have a
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  Speaker 1: graphic breaking down some some of the running back market
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  Speaker 1: and contract values and stuff. But whether rightly or wrongly,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. It feels like he could have gone
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  Speaker 1: about this a better way, And especially with how the
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  Speaker 1: Bills came off of the Stefan Digg situation last year
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  Speaker 1: and trading digs out of the blue and kind of
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  Speaker 1: significantly hurting themselves at the wide receiver position, having to
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  Speaker 1: adjust accordingly, but knowing that they were going to hurt
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  Speaker 1: themselves and do it anyway. It just seems like kind
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  Speaker 1: of causing a stir isn't the best recipe for success
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  Speaker 1: for being here long term, or kind of getting what
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  Speaker 1: you want from this regime in this organization. And then
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  Speaker 1: especially looking at the guys who got paid this offseason,
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  Speaker 1: guys like Greg Russou and Rubber Art and Christian Benford
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  Speaker 1: and khalilsha Kiir, It's all guys who just show up
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  Speaker 1: and do their work. I'm not saying if Cook didn't
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  Speaker 1: say anything that he would have gotten rewarded with an extension.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just saying the way he's gone about it, I
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  Speaker 1: don't think has helped his case necessarily. Given again, how
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  Speaker 1: the Bills are traditionally done business, his positional value already
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  Speaker 1: not helping him, and then the Bills coming off of
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  Speaker 1: the Stefan Diggs situation. It's just I just feel like
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  Speaker 1: he could have gone about this a little better. Happy Wolverine.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sensing a pattern here that you're big time into
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  Speaker 1: James Cook and probably want to get an extension. Happy
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  Speaker 1: Wolverine says Cook as a durable, as f nice there,
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  Speaker 1: fastest lightning, and a serious weapon, the best back that
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  Speaker 1: we've had since Freddy. Oh okay. Music blogger eighty seven says, oh,
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  Speaker 1: this is too Happy Wolverine, saying you're thinking with your heart,
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  Speaker 1: not your head. Cook is worth ten MILLI year, not
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  Speaker 1: fifteen or twenty mil a year. Fair enough, Okay, James
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  Speaker 1: says it's ant season. Appreciate you, James, thank you very
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  Speaker 1: much for being here. Oh Joe in relation to the
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  Speaker 1: Bosa comments, saying Bosa is only on the hook for
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  Speaker 1: one season, That is a fair point. Kay Morey says
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  Speaker 1: Cook is awesome. I don't think he'll get a top
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  Speaker 1: of the market contract, at least not from the Bills.
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  Speaker 1: And then Joe follows up with his Bosa is only
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  Speaker 1: on the hook for one season comment and says, so
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  Speaker 1: you can front load and stomach twelve and a half
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  Speaker 1: a bit easier knowing you aren't on the hook. I
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  Speaker 1: think that's fair, James says, Jimbo wants to ring just
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  Speaker 1: the tippy Canoe says, I don't see James Cook having
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  Speaker 1: a Broadway career when he's finished with football. That's fair.
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  Speaker 1: So I think with all this contract conversation, I'm seeing
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  Speaker 1: well to the comments. See more of these. Well, this
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  Speaker 1: is a good comment from Roy saying, with possible extensions for
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  Speaker 1: Connor McGovern Andreck Horrance looming after this season, how much
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  Speaker 1: is being willing to spend on a running back? Very fair?
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  Speaker 1: And David Edwards is a UFA next year. So do
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  Speaker 1: you want to save some of that Cook money and
• 15:00
  Speaker 1: keep this offensive line together for another year? Another two,
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  Speaker 1: maybe another three, depending on how you allocate it. Do
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  Speaker 1: you use some of that money to go after another
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  Speaker 1: edge next year? Because I think whether Bosa succeeds or
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  Speaker 1: not this year, he's only got to be here for
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  Speaker 1: one year. Does the interior of the defensive line work?
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  Speaker 1: Are you? Do you? Because you know Larry Ogunjobi's on
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  Speaker 1: a one year deal, you got to find somebody to
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  Speaker 1: fill his spot next year, either in free agency or
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  Speaker 1: the draft. Are you looking to fill Matt mclonald's spot.
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  Speaker 1: Are you looking to fill a safety spot? Depending on
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  Speaker 1: what's going on. So there are some other questions that
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  Speaker 1: you know, fifteen or twenty million dollars a year that
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  Speaker 1: Cook is asking for, that money could go to other
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  Speaker 1: places significantly, And if and if it came down to
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  Speaker 1: like keeping the offensive line intact or keeping James Cook,
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  Speaker 1: I do like James Cook, but I would choose to
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  Speaker 1: keep the offensive line in tack intact. I want to
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  Speaker 1: pull up. So a lot of the conversation here is
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  Speaker 1: going back and forth with everybody talks about the money
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  Speaker 1: and like this money isn't that bad? Or fifteen million
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: isn't that bad? So I want to pull that up.
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: Pull this up. This is a graphic courtesy of over
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: the Cap, who does really awesome work with their just
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: salary cap stuff in general, but especially when it comes
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: to like the user interface and how everything looks and
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: how clean and nice this is. So this is the
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: top thigots twenty running backs. Somebody feel free to count
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: it for me and tell me if I'm wrong. The
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: top twenty running backs in the NFL by average annual
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: value of their contract. So it's not filtered by that
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: first column of total value. It is filtered by average
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: annual value. While you folks look at that, oh, I
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: want to stop, Roy says the tree. The tree looks
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: good in gold. I appreciate you for that.
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  Speaker 3: Roy.
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: I'm gon actually gonna pause. I'm gonna remove this real quick.
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: Thank you. Shout out to Roy there and noticing the tree. Yeah,
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: got a little bit of yellow on top, and then
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: some gold and some silver garland underneath there. There's no
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: major holidays in June. I don't really know what to
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: do for you know, for June, I debate on different things.
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: So I just go kind of like a summary feel,
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: you know, the yellow lays on top and then some
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: gold and some silver on the bottom. I thought that
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: was fun. I appreciate you for noticing. Thank you very much. Roy.
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: All right, let's go back to the stage. All right.
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: So I also want to say this, you know, while
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: you folks look at this, I want to say I
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: am all in favor of James Cook getting paid, whether
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: it's with bills, whether it's whether it's somebody else. I
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: think it's professional athletes in general, especially in the NFL.
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: Your shelf life is so short. Regardless of the position,
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: your next snap could literally be your last on the
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: practice field, on the game field, whatever. So I have
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: no problem with anybody chasing the bag at any point
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: in time. I do not care. I would love for
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: guys on teams that I like your guys in general,
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: to do the hometown discount thing, or to do the
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: thing that helps benefit the team so they can pay
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: it forward, takes less money, so that money can go
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: somewhere else so they can try to win a championship.
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: You know, I get it. Fack nice Mahim. Heins reference
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: from km Orrey saying your last snap could be on
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: a jest also true, you literally, but all jokes aside,
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: like you never know when your NFL career is gonna end.
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: You have no idea, You have no I mean even
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: look at he came back from it, but Ricky pearsall
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: got shot last year before it even took a snap
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: on the field as a rookie, Like, you have no
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: idea when your career is going to be done. So
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: I have no problem with anybody trying to secure as
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: much financial security for themselves and or their families whenever
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: they can, and if Cook thinks that this is when
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: his value is the highest, and this will be his
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: best chance to chase as much money as he can,
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: I got no problem with him doing that. You know,
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: you could have go He could go about it, maybe
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: a better way potentially, But I have no problem if
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: his thought and end goal is I want to get
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: paid as much as I can. Do you like, I
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: got no problem with the dude chasing the bag. It's unfortunate,
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: you know, for teams that might be strapped a little
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: with cash and want to keep a player like that.
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: But if you can't, you can't. I got no problem
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: with the dude chasing the bag. I just want to
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: put that out there. I do not care. If he
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: wants fifteen million a year, God bless him, go at
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: after it. If he wants twenty, God bless you, go
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: after it. And also, who knows, for as much as
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: we're saying, he could have gone about this better, maybe
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: some team out there gives him seventeen million a year
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: or something that we're like, oh, no, one's going to
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: pay him that. All it takes is one team to
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: overpay and give you that money, and boom, he's good,
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: and he set and he gets what he wanted. So
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: if that's what he values over anything, cool do you?
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: God bless you? But this is the rankings for several
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: running backs here in terms of average annual value. Now,
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: there's been multiple reported reports. Earlier in the off season,
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: it was reported that Cook was looking for about fifteen
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: million a year, so you can see where that puts
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: him in the conversation. Some reports have also said that
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: he's looking for about twenty million dollars per year. That
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: you can also see where that puts him in the chart.
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: Either way, even if we start with the lower amount,
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: if we start with the fifteen million per year, that
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: would put him into the top top tier of running
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: backs in the NFL from an average annual value standpoint,
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: And for those of you listening at home, I will
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: give you those numbers. Taekwon Barkley sits at the top
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: with twenty point six million dollars annually. Christian McCaffrey's second
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: at nineteen. Derrick Henry is third at fifteen. Jonathan Taylor
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: of the Colts is fourth at fourteen. So if Cook
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: got fifteen million a year, he would be tied for
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: the third highest paid running back in the NFL. If
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: he got twenty million per year, he would be tied
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: for second, or no, he wouldn't be tied for second.
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: He would be second between Christian McCaffrey, who would then
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: be third in Saquon Barkley. At first, I personally as
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: and I like James Cook a lot, and I'm gonna
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: tell you why as we go forward in this episode,
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: I think both of those rumors and or reports are
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: a bit too rich if we're being honest, or for
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: at least my estimation, if I had to give James
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: Cook a contract extension, or if I'm offering him a deal,
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: I mean, I'm gona try and get inim as low
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: as possible because I'm trying to do it benefits of
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: the team. But I could see him realistically getting money
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: anywhere from like the David Montgomery Ormandre Stevenson tier where
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: you're making nine to nine point one million a year.
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: I could see him getting anywhere from that up to
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: where Alvin Kamara is at twelve point twenty five million
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: a year. I think the sweet spot for him is
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: the Joe Mixon Aaron Jones kind of range. I could
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: see him and for those of you again listening only
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: Joe Mixon has an average annual value of nine point
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: eight seven five. Aaron Jones is right even at ten
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: million dollars per year. I could see Cook getting a
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: three for thirty, a two for twenty, a two for eighteen,
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: a two for nineteen, something like that. I don't think
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: he's gonna get the term that he wants. I you know,
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: if he gets that average per year, I think it
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: would be more on short term deal. Again, the running
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: back market in general, teams aren't shelling out cash or
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: running backs first and off and first and foremost, they're
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: not showing out cash second ball. They're not shelling out term.
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: So you're not gonna get Even if he say he
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: wants fifteen million a year, I think he's more likely
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: to get a one year fifteen million dollar contract than
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: he is a two year thirty and definitely more than
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: a three year forty five. Like, you're not gonna get
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: the term and the money you want, which is really
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: interesting for his contract, you know, wants or demands according
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: to the rumors, because if he wants that much, I
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: don't think you're gonna get the term, And so does
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: that money offset the term depending on how much of
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: it is guaranteed. Do you feel better getting fifteen in
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: one year instead of getting twenty over two? You know,
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: how does that kind of what happens to you in
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: the one year that you get the fifteen? Do you
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: get another significant deal or do you start to plateau?
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: Do you get worse? Do you get hurt? There's so
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: many pros and cons again, which is why I have
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: no problem with any dude chasing the bag in any
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: shape point in time. But I do think that tier
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: of nine million a year to twelve, twelve and a
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: half somewhere in that range is fair fair game for
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: James Cook given the production that he's had, and I
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: do still do think he's on an upwards trajectory. Now
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: there are some questions in past protection, and there are
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: some questions you know, for me in terms of being
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: a complete back that that ties into in addition to
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: what his skill set is. But I would have no
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: problem giving him, especially with a good offensive line. But again,
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: now you can kind of play Devil's advocate and be like, well,
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: with a good offensive line, any running back could kind
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: of run behind that line. I think that David Montgomery
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: to Aaron Jones really is the sweet spot for me
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: nine million a year, ten million a year. I would
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: be fine given him eight million a year, nine million
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: a year, because I do value him and I do
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: think he adds I think he adds more of a
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: boost to this offense than he gets credit for, especially
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: since he had these demands and all the fans have
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: kind of knocked them. Not all the fans, but a
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: lot of fans have knocked him for and kind of
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: overplayed out bad some of the negative aspects of his
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: game are and kind of downplayed some of the positives.
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: But I thought I wanted to start out with this
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: craft to kind of show you folks where we are
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: in the running back tiers from an average annual value standpoint,
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: and also, if you're looking at it also too, James
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: Connor is awesome. I just want to put that out there,
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: like James Connor is a fantastic running back. Does not
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: get talked about enough in Arizona. I really love what
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: the Cardinals do offensively and defensive from a schematic standpoint,
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: and several of their players. That conversation is neither here
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: nor there. But yeah, you're looking at this deal potentially,
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: and you're looking at all the names like should he
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: get paid more than not even paid more. But if
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: you play the would you rather, would you rather have
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: James Cook or ramondre Stevenson or David Montgomery or James
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: Connor or Joe Mixon or Aaron Jones or Josh Jacobs
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: or Alvin Kamara or Jonathan Taylor or Derrick Henry or
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: Christian McCaffrey or Saquon Barkley, even if you want to
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: go a little for you below Ramandre Ashton Gent he's
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: there at eight point nine to seven three this year,
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: but he's on his rookie deal first round pick, high
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: type of pick, and then below genty Chubba Hubbard or Cuba,
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: DeAndre Swift, Tony Pollard, Devin Singletary, b Jhon Robinson again
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: another dude on the rookie deal, Jalen Warren of the Steelers,
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: Jordan Mason, and then Najie Harris. So again you kind
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: of play this game. You look at this type of list,
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: figure out what type of tier he falls in for
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: you where you feel comfortable paying him. I realistically again
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: could see him any getting anywhere between nine and twelve
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: million per I think the the sweet spot is nine
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: to ten. You know, like nine and a half ten
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: and a half maybe, And for me, I'd be fine
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: paying him eight and a half to nine and a half.
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: I'd even go ten. If he signed a one year ten,
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: I'd be okay with it. I would take him back
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: for that. I don't mind giving him some money, but
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: on a shorter term. I'm not going to commit long
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: term to a running back that I do think has limitations.
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: You have to be a special kind of running back
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: for me personally, to get a long term commitment, you
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: have to be Saquon. You have to be a force
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: multiplier and a game changer in almost every former in fashion,
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: and if you're not in all the areas, then you're
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: just so good in a couple like Saquon is a
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: game changer in every form and fashion. Christian McCaffrey, game
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: changer in every form and fashion. Derrick Henry. You know
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: what you're getting with Derrick Henry, but he's so good
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: at the thing that you know you're getting that it
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: just doesn't matter and you're okay with it. Jonathan Taylor
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: good in a lot of forms of fashions. Kamara one
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: of the best contact balance running backs I've ever seen.
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: And then as a receiver, as a runner and a
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: pass protector. Josh Jacobs finally got paid a bit underrated.
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: I'd like Aaron Jones for a while. Joe Mixon does
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: a lot of good, very things. Connor I've already talked about,
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: is being underrated. Montgomery has shined since he's gone to
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: the Lions. But again kind of focusing that in so
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: just stick of the tears. Who makes what, how they
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: make it? All that type of thing. I'm gonna leave
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: this up for people to look at and we go.
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: Music blogger says, give Cook three hundred carries this year
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: and let him walk draft his replacement next year. I
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: think that's fair, and I also think that's possible. I
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: mean they did it with Motor and Moss with each
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: other with well Motor with Moss and then kind of Motor,
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: both guys with more backs that they brought in, and
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: then Cook kind of doing it for Motor after Cocoa.
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: Mung says, home run speed is more valuab than running
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: backs get credit for. Absolutely, he has speed vision and
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: top end speed that is legitimately rare. I agree, We're
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: going to talk about that in a bit. Music blogger says,
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: so my ten million dollars per year comment would put
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: him at eighth overall. Not bad. No, I mean he'd
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: get paid like a top ten back, which I think
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: is good. He just wants to be paid like a
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: top two or a top three or four, and I
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: think that's a little much. Lewis says, as much as
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: people are parentheses rightfully talking about cook speed, his tackle
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: breaking slash patients patients that he demonstrated in twenty twenty
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: four is what's making me consider if he should be
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: paid or not excellent comment. I will be talking about
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: that in a bit. Joe says, I'm aokay with putting
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: Cook right in that Jacob's Kmara bracket even one million higher.
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't pay him more than Kamara or Jacobs, but
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: I could understand someone else paying him more than Kamara
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: or Jacobs, which I think is fair. Rice. I will
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: never be blamed a player for trying to get paid,
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: whether we agree with them mount or not. That is fair.
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: James's question, if Cook has a career or fourteen hundred
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: rushing seventy catches, do we franchise him? I don't. I
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: don't think so, cam Moore, He says, I think somebody
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: will give him Josh Jacob's money. That's fair. Curtis says,
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: eighteen touchdowns is a lot of touchdowns. Yes, he did
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: have a lot of touchdowns, and a bunch not bunch,
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: but several were like explosive touchdown ones like sixty five yards,
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: forty nine yards fifty like good chunk yardage, not just like,
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: oh he's inside the five. It was well blocked and
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: he kind of fell in the end zone. So he
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: earned a lot of those touchdowns. Well, he earned everything,
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: but he quote unquote earned a lot of them with
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: the long distance and his skill set playing into it.
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: But I just personally wouldn't use touchdowns as like a
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: barometer of what a good running back is or not,
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: just because there's so much that goes into like getting
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: getting like what who or what got the offense down
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: into the spot for them to score. Where did the
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: touchdowns come from? Is they are they inside the five,
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: inside the ten? How many of them are twenty plus,
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: thirty plus forty plus, so on and so forth. But
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: I do think he earned a good chunk, and I
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: do think a majority of his touchdowns are reflective of
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: his skin set. He made a lot of his touchdowns work,
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: he made the unblocked defender miss, he beat somebody around
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: the corner and got to the pylon or got to
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: the edge when it wasn't blocked for that. But his
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: speed made the difference, His vision made the difference, his
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: footwork made the difference. And that's just some of the
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: ones like inside the red zone, in the low red
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: zone that's not even talking about, like the forty nine
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: yard touchdown against the Dolphins in Week two, or I
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: think what the sixty five yard are and the snow
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: against the Niners. He was pulling out a lot of
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: big touchdown nuts Spin says game changers. Who oh. In
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: terms of running backs, Barkley, cmc Henry Taylor, is Kamara
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: and Jacobs. I think Alvin Kamara is a game changer
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: at the running back position. I think that's where it
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: starts to like in terms of like hard and fast
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: game changers, Kamara is where I start to draw the line.
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: Jacobs is close though. I think Jacobs is a really
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: good running back, and just how he fits into a
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: gap scheme plus even zone as well, I think is
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: significantly important. But I mean, he he played so good
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: with the Raiders for years when they were terrible, and
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: then was another boon for the packers. Oh, Aaron John Man,
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: Aaron Jones is so electric, I don't think. Oh, but
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: he's also like a deep threat, and you get him
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: on a rail route. I would hard and fast line.
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: I would draw it to Kamara for sure. I think
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: you could make a case for Jacobs or Jones being
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: game changers, but I would hard and fast. I draw
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: the line of Kamara, so Saquon cmc, Henry Taylor, Alvin Kamara.
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: I also think, I mean, if we're just going from
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: the top, but I also think b John Robinson is
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: a definite game changer, and I also think Ashton Gent
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: is in there. Yeah, so that's fair. So I would
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: say a hard one, two, three, four, five, I would
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: say the top five or game changers. So is b
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: Jehon Robinson, John Robinson's So is Bjeon Robinson. So is
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: Ashton Gent. Ah Nix Aunt told me he secretly wants
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: to tank for Jeremiah Love instead of paying Cook Yo man.
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: Jeremiah Love running back for Notre Dame Long Speed. He's
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: got some power playing with a brace on his leg
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: and the playoffs and carrying defenders into the end zone
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: and breaking tackles. Man, that boy can play. Yeah. Love
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: is a sweet one. Love is a sweet one. Uh what,
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: as Roy says, from the sounds of it, I don't
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: think Cook would take ten million dollars a year. It's
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: all gonna depend on the market. I think he's gonna
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: test free agency and then we go from there. Who knows.
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: Maybe no one offers him above nine. Maybe no one
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: offers him above eleven, and so he's like, Okay, I'll
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: go with the best team that offered me ten. We
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: don't know until he gets to the market. Maybe there
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: is a team out there that pays him fifteen or
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: gets close to fifteen, or gets close to twenty. I
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: don't think twenty is gonna happen, but maybe gets close
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: to fifteen. We'll see. Timbosa's Cook seems like he's got
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: good character as well, like in the locker room, and
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: has done everything the bills asked. I think that's fair.
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: Connor says, I think Jacobs did change the Packers' offense
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: in a very positive way. Absolutely, their their gap scheme.
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: Runs just started hitting a lot more with his power
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: and his his body control and how he's built with
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: the speed and like the short the short area burst explosion. Yeah, man, yeah,
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: I on't see music. Balaker says, did you guys watch
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: his press comments? He seemed unhappy? See but this is
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: what I mentioned earlier. I don't know if he seemed
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: unhappy or that's also just kind of par for the
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: course for how James cook is like He's been that
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: way since he came in the league. It's like, hey,
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: you got drafted, how do you feel? And he's like, yeah,
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: I feel good, happy to be in the NFL, and
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: you're like, oh, okay. That's just kind of how he
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: he's always been. Joe says, I'm a huge fan of Hubbard.
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: Not elite, but deserves a lot more shine. I hope
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: he see he gets some more shine. I also think
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: Bryce Young played well down the stretch in some of
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: the Panthers tape I've watched, and that wasn't talked about enough.
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: I also like Jaylen Cooker, so shout out to the
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: Panthers offense. Spinn says, how is Jenti a game changer?
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: What game has he changed in the NFL? He hasn't yet,
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: He hasn't played in the NFL. I believe in his
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: projection because of his play style and his skill set.
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: So I would consider him a game changer, the type
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: of skill set that he has, the traits that he has. Again,
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: I know that he hasn't done in the NFL yet,
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: and it's all projection, but I'm a believer in his projection.
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: I just think the tape was very strong, his skill set,
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: him doing it against top tier talent and defenses even
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: when everybody and their mother knew he was the focal
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: point of the offense and he was getting the ball.
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: Just the vision, the pace, the contact balance, his contact
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: balance is almost oh. I mean like Kamara is an
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: alien when it comes to his contact balance, but Genti's
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: is up there, man, And that's a significant compliment coming
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: from me at least. So I think Genti's got game.
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: I'll say game changer potential if it makes you feel better.
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: But I just think his skill set is tremendous. We'll
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: see what he can do with the Raiders with how
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: they've been built. But yeah, I think genty has game
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: changer potential. I'll say because he hasn't done it yet
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: in the NFL. But fair point, I said, you know,
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: I don't know how many teams will pay for that billy,
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: he says, the Cowboys with the Yeah, the Cowboys would
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: pay James Cook. Jerry Jones would give Cook a nineteen
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: million year. Oh Joe's Matt happy, he says, yes, and
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: got him from Greg and our league. I am here
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: for him and proud oh boy. Jalen Coker. Yeah, I
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: thought I wanted the Bills to get him as a
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: UFUDFA out of holy Cross. They did not. But conversation
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: for another time. So that's the contract situation, right. Kind
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: of put that into perspective, taking a peek at what
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: these guys make in terms of the running backs, what
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: the market looks like, what Cook is rumored to want,
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: kind to see what that would look like in terms
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: of the projection. Just having that conversation as far as
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: what Cook is, I want to talk about what he
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: is before we get to some of the numbers, because
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: I do think and I'm gonna talk out of both
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: sides of my mouth a little bit here. I do
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: think the Bills offensive line is the engine that drives
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: the Bills. They are a strong group. They pass protect well,
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: They're versatile in the run game. They can block gap scheme,
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: they can block zone. They are physical yet athletic. They've
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: got good combinations of skill sets and traits in different
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: quantities across the board, across the starters, everybody can do
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: a little bit of something like the other but also different,
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: like the sliders are tuned up and twitched in different
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: ways or tweaked in different ways. I should say so.
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: The offensive line is very important, and I do think
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: most running backs would have success behind this offensive line
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: and with this run game, and with the run scheme.
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: That being said, I do think James Cook played above
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: the scheme and did a lot more from an individual
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: level than gets credit for. In twenty twenty four. There are, man,
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: just those duo runs that Eric and I have broken
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: him down in the film room. I've showed him here
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: in this Guy's coverage. I've showed him on Twitter those
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: runs where it's designed to get that unblocked defender. And
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: he even did going back to twenty twenty three when
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: Dorsey was running the offense before Brady took over. Cook's
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: ability to function on duo and just know where that
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: unblocked defender is going to be and make him miss
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: if it's a corner. He's shown he showed the ability
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: in twenty twenty four that Okay, cool, I can run
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: through that guy, or he's still fast enough to run
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: or run past a corner. If it's a linebacker, you
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: can shake him and get through them a little bit
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: because he's got some wiggle ran with a bit of
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: better pad level this past year, had some better yards
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: after contact in twenty twenty four, which I want to
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: talk about the speed and the juice that is there
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: with the displacement that the Bills offensive line creates. I'm
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: talking about both horizontally and vertically, their ability to take
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: guys and move them out of gaps left and right,
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: and their ability to take guys and displace them vertically
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: and knock them back several yards. His speed in his
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: pace allows him to eat up those yards, those available
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: free yards, eat them up very quickly. Now, yes, you
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: could say on the other side, well, if the offensive
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: line's creating space, anybody can eat up those free yards. Sure,
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: but his juice and his past and his decisiveness, especially
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: the kind that he showed in twenty twenty four, allows
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: him to take more advantage of that space that the
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: Bill's offensive line creates. And then the scheme versatility that
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: he started to show again. He was this zone runner
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: in college, really had a good feel for pressing that line,
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: letting the hole develop, and then flowing like water wherever
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: he needed to. If he needed to stay front side,
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: he'd stay front side. If you needed to cut back
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: one hole or two or three, he could. If you
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: need to cut all the way back across the grain
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: and get outside the tackle box, he could. He had
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: that feel, he had that speed, but the gap scheme
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: stuff was you know, his time was off a little bit.
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: It was almost like he got a little bit too
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: ahead of himself, wouldn't let the blocks develop. We saw
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: significant change in that year over year with the Bills,
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: and then even more so in twenty twenty four. This
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: offensive line again is the straw that stirs the drink
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: in a lot of ways. But the schematic diversity that
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: the Bills run game had in twenty twenty four and
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: really that they've had for the past couple of years,
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: that week side mid zone run duo, and then all
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: the tackle pull stuff, whether it's dart or whether it's
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: tackle long trap. They ran some GT counter, they ran
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: some power. They're doing things out of spread against light
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: and neutral boxes. They're doing stuff out of condensed formations
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: with six offensive linemen and multiple tight ends. Or Reggie
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: Gilliam on the field and they're going heavy and they're
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: running stuff. His pacing, his vision, the way he started
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: to set up his blocks and let things start to
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: breathe and develop and pace and then step on the
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: gas and hit the hole. I think he's really started
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: to develop as a runner. And for as good as
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: the offensive line is. And again, if I had to
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: pay James Cook or pay multiple members on the offensive
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: line to keep them together, I would pick the offensive
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: line option. But I do think the replaceable aspect of
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: this conversation, like, oh, it's fine, you could plug anybody
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: in there. It's fine. You could plug in Ray Davis
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: right now. It's fine. You could plug in Ray Davis
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: and Ty Johnson then they can do the job. It's fine,
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: you can draft anybody. I don't think it's as easy
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: as that. Again, I don't want to pay him fifteen
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: million a year. I don't want to pay him twenty
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: million a year. But James Cook on tape made a
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: significant difference for this run game. Again, even just in
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: some of them trying to think the first Chiefs game
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: or the second the low red zone touchdown, not the
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: sick one in the AFC Championship where he essentially makes
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: the play happen himself and reaches across the goal line
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: on what was at fourth and one. I'm thinking the
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: other one I think was that the first game when
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: they were at home against the Chiefs where he gets
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: a carry to the right and it's not blocked and
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: he just beats chanall to the outside like the play
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: isn't really blocked and he's like, I'll do something. Any
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: scores And he does that all the time, like he
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: makes something out of nothing. Because the speed, the vision,
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: the decisiveness, I don't think it's necessarily easy to replicate
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: any of those pieces, right. It's not easy to get
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: a running back with the kind of speed long and
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: short term burst both that he has. Let alone have
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: a guy who has that, plus the vision, plus the decisiveness,
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: plus the ability to function in both zapp both gap
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: and zone schemes. That's a hard thing to just replicate.
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: Be like, oh, yeah, you just get another fast running back,
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: it'll be fine. I just don't think it's that simple.
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: Is it impossible? No? But I do think Cook deserves
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: more flowers than he's being given credit for. I think
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: during the season it was all like, man, Cook is awesome,
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: Cook is sick, This is great, And then reports started
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: to come out that he really wanted to get paid,
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: and I feel like everybody was like, oh, well, he's
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: not He's not that good anyway. And I know I'm
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: using hyperbole and not everybody thinks that way, but I
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: do think he deserves more appreciation than he gets as
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: a receiver. Yes, there are some drops, there's that one
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: against Jacksonville, but he also you know, I still think
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: he's a weapon in the past game, whether it's as
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: you know, I'm up the sideline on those rail routes
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: or those wheel routes, or him just finding space as
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: a checkdown guy. He started to get better rhythm with Alan,
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: get into this, into the soft spots, getting on the
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: same page with Alan crossing his eyes, helping in the
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: scramble drill or helping as a checkdown guy, or even
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: that crazy off script throw that Alan makes to Cook
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: against the Lions, where Alan's rolling to his left and
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: Cook comes open and Alan fire's side arm opens up
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: to his right and fires it in there that's a
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: crazy alien throw from Alan. But Cook also runs a
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: route after the scramble drill like. Cook pretends like he
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: fakes like he's going up the sideline and then he
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: cuts it back inside to get open for Alan. Like
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: he does have an impact on the game as receiver.
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: Now again you can play Devil's advocate and say, well,
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: Ray Davis has had some great pass catching moments. Ty
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: Johnson has had some great pass catching moments, Which is
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: both of those things are fair. I just think Cook's
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: ability and his usefulness and his role, what he means
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: to the offense and his skill set are being a
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: bit downplayed by the fan base. Again, I'm not saying
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: he deserves fifty million a year. I'm not saying he
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: deserves twenty. I would not give him that, But he's
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: better than he gets credit for it. That for me,
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: is what makes the conversation so hard, because I do
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: think he's a very valuable piece for this offense. I
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: do think he's a piece that you can't easily drop
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: in another guy and replace that production. I do think
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: you'd have to tweak some of your rates in terms
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: of calls or designs or concepts. You have to tweak
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: some things because again his speed does make a difference. Again,
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: just on those duo runs alone, you have that designed
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: unblocked defender, and usually it's a corner and nickelback. Some
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: man can be the safety, but usually it's a corner
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: that nickelback. It'll be on that outside. But depending on
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: all the scheme develops, sometimes you got to hit it
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: up inside. Sometimes they gum up the works inside and
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: you got to bounce that thing outside. Cook has the
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: speed to just bounce it outside, turn the corner and bang,
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: like make a difference consistently, even when you know it's coming.
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: There's even the one against the Ravens this past year
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: in the playoffs where he cuts a run back. Marlon
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: Humphrey is slow playing it on the backside, like watching
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: for the cutback, Like he doesn't shoot down the line,
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: he doesn't scrape over the top like he's waiting for
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: the cutback. And Cook still hits the cutback and gets
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: across his face and Humphrey reaches out. He just gets
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: cooked by a piece of his dreads, and Cook just
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: runs right through it and keeps on going. I think
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: he's better than he gets credit for. Right now, I
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: think he's being downplayed a bit. I don't think. Again,
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: what he wants I think is a bit unrealistic for
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: the bills and even for me, Like if I'm a GM,
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: I'm not paying him that. But I do think he's
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: better than he gets credit for, which is again, is
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: what Muddy's this whole conversation. Now, some numbers. Just read
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: these in order, read them slow. For those of you
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: you know well, I'm not showing them on the screen,
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: for those of you who for those of you listening
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: only and not watching, I don't have anything on the screen.
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: I'm just reading them. So James Cook in twenty twenty four,
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: I've got some James Cook numbers, and then I've got
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: some James Cook and Ray Davis comparison numbers. So James
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: Cook amongst forty six running backs with at least one
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: hundred carries in twenty twenty four, again forty six running
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: backs with at least one hundred carries. This past season,
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: he was eighth in EPA per attempt. He was seventh
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: in EPA twenty sixth in broken tackles plus misstackles forced
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: per attempt, and he was eighth in yards per attempt.
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: That was per Sport's Info Solutions per PFF their advanced metrics,
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: there were forty seven running backs to qualified. I don't
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: know how there's abscrepancy there, but he was eleventh in
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: yards before contact per attempt and fourteenth in yards after
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: contact per attempt. Explosive runs between he and Ray Davis.
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: This is what I thought. This was very funny. Actually
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: know one more before I go into there. James Cook's
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: yards after contact per attempt in twenty twenty four three
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: point three yards after contact per attempt in twenty twenty four.
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: It was two point seven in twenty twenty three and
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: two point nine in twenty twenty two. So he improved
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: as versus his rookie year versus last year, and especially
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: versus two twenty twenty three, over a half yard more
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: after contact per attempt. And I know that doesn't seem
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: Oh man, it's a half yard. What does that matter?
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: That's the kind of the difference between like second and
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: five and almost second and four, or a third and
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: one versus third inches, or you know, actually getting spotted
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: as a first down that matters. So the three point
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: three yards after contact per attempt, and I think again,
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: I think that matches a bit with the improvement we saw.
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: I don't think he's ever gonna be Derrick Henry where
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: he's just running through shoulders and running through dude's chess.
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: But you saw more of a physical presence to James
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: Cook's running game in twenty twenty four. He was running
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: through some shoulders, he was running through arm tackles, he
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: was breaking some stuff and falling forward a lot. It
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: took multiple guys to bring him down, and especially around
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: the goal line some of those touchdowns he was finishing
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: through contact with authority to cross the goal line. So
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: wanted to put that out there for his yards after
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: contact per attempt in overall with his holistic numbers. Now,
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: so James Cook and Ray Davis pieces James Cook eight
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: explosive runs on two hundred and sixty nine attempts in
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty four. And I want to confirm a number,
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: and these eight, I would say, you want to confirm
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: because people define explosive runs differently by the site. So
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: these are runs of ten or more yards, these explosive runs.
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: This is per PFF show show. So James Cook twenty
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: eight explosive runs aka twenty eight runs of ten yards
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: or more on two hundred and sixty nine attempts. That
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: is a ten point four explosive run rate. Ray Davis
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: thirteen explosive runs on one hundred and twenty five attempts.
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: That's also a ten point four explosive run rate, which
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: I thought was hilarious, Like the same explosive run rate
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: between Cook and Ray Davis. Very funny. James Cook forty
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: eight misstackles forced on the year, That zero point one
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: to eight miss tackles four per attempt. Ray Davis thirty
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: miss tackles forced on the year. That is a zero
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: point two four rate of mis tackles force per attempt.
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: So more mis tackles forced for Davis than Cook. I
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: think that makes sense. He breaks more tackles the lowest
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: center of gravity, being a bit more bowling ballish in
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: his nature. Low says, not sure why my yards after
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: contact per attempt are slightly different. Got mine from NFL PRO,
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: which I believe pull from next gen. They do proll
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: from next Gen. And this is such a lou This
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: is such a great point, Like there are there are
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: certain things I use next Gen for. There's certain things
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: I use PFF four, there's certain things I use sports
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: Infos Solutions for and what's super annoying is they all
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: like tend to track things differently. Sometimes it's like small.
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: It's like somebody has somebody at ten point one versus
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: like ten point three. Others it'll be like big. Like
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: I've seen metrics where they'll have, you know, this person's
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: rate is nine point seven and another site will have
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: the same rate and it's like eleven point four, and
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: I'm like, I don't and I don't understand how they
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: get there. I know people who work in the NFL
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: office and who work for some of these third party
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: metrics providers, and I've tried to figure out how and why,
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: and they don't really know the answer either, So they're
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: just kind of weird. I trust, I will say I
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: trust Next Gen over anyone for everything. I was just
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: gathering all these other advanced metrics from PFF that Next
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: Gen didn't have for me, so I like to keep
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: everything on an even scale, which is why I kind
• 48:28
  Speaker 1: of kept it that way. And I also trust some
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: of the stuff that Sports Sports Info Solutions had and
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: then I was gathering other metrics from there, so I
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: just tried to keep it as holistic as possible. But
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: on the whole I trust next Gen more than anyone.
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: But yeah, it is frustrating. You'll get different even the
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: coverage ones are the biggest ones too, right. You'll be like, oh,
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: how many how many times does a team you know
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: run cover three? And it'll be like, feel three different sites,
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: three different percentages seventeen percent, eighteen percent, thirteen percent. You're like,
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: what that shouldn't be different at all? And the seventeen
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: eighteen can be close. If it's like one or two
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: percentage points that can still Okay, that's negligible, but yeah,
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: fair point. Sorry not to get off on a tangent.
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: But I don't know, people, I don't know if it's
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: human error. I do actually know this answer. Some sites
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: use humans to do the grading and the charting. Some
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: sites use AI to do it, and they've taught them
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: how to grade. They've taught the AI how to grade,
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: and then they use AI to grade everything. So humans
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: versus computers we have a skin that situation. Okay, So
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: though James Cook and Ray Davis explosive runs misstackles forced,
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: now this next piece James Cook and Ray Davis in
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty four versus neutral and light boxes neutral boxes
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: are traditionally seven defenders. Light boxes are quantified as six
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: defenders or less. I pick that cutoff because heavy boxes
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: for playing at home, are you traditionally eight defenders are
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: more in the box. Ray Davis saw a lot of
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: heavy boxes, not because teams are like, oh, ray Davis
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: is on the field, we got to load the box,
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: but because he got some of that. James says, we
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: need analytics or the analytics. It's a brave new world.
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: That's funny. I like that Ray Davis saw carries in
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: I don't want to say garbage time, but essentially the
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: end of game run the clockout scenarios where you got
• 50:24
  Speaker 1: some backups in there for the bills or you're just
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: trying to run the clock out, and so you're just
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: sitting there lining with a super condensed formation in a
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: heavy look. Maybe one receivers on the field split out wide,
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: but the defense knows, hey, they're running the ball. Let's
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: put ten guys in the box. And you're just like, Okay,
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: here's a yard, let's run off forty seconds. Here's another yard,
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: let's run off forty seconds. Up, we lost two yards. Cool,
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: we're running out forty seconds. Boom, so Davis saw those
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: kind of those context mattering carries, which also influenced his
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: overall numbers, like it's hard to see Cook, I'm sorry
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: Cook and Davis and be like, oh, well, welcome me
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: to and break more tackles, Like woll, it's hard to
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: break tackles when you got like ten defenders in the
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: box and they know you're gonna run the ball because
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: there's a minute and forty left on the clock, but
• 51:09
  Speaker 1: the defense has two timeouts and the game is kind
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: of done. Like just that context matters. So I wanted
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: to compare Cook and Ray Davis in twenty twenty four
• 51:18
  Speaker 1: versus neutral and light boxes because I thought that was
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: more encompassing of I don't want to say real game scenarios,
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: but times on the game mattered more, if that makes sense.
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: So attempts again, Ray Davis James Cook in twenty twenty
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: four versus neutral and light boxes seven defenders or less,
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: seven is neutral, light is six or less attempts. James
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: Cook one hundred and twenty six attempts, Ray Davis fifty attempts. Oh, also,
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: this is amongst fifty three qualifying running backs. So James
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: Cook's one hundred and twenty six attempts in this area,
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: was twenty fifth out of fifty three qualifying running backs.
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: Ray Davis is fifty was last fifty third out of
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: fifty three qualifying running backs EPA per attempt. James Cook
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: was ninth in EPA per attempt out of those fifty
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: three running backs versus neutral and light boxes, but Ray
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: Davis was nineteenth, So ten spots below and from a
• 52:12
  Speaker 1: point standpoint, not too crazy. James Cook was at point
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: positive point zero five. Ray Davis was positive point zero
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: one yards per attempt. James Cook was sixth with five
• 52:24
  Speaker 1: point four yards per attempt. Again, that speed makes a
• 52:27
  Speaker 1: lot of difference with its the gap scheme, his own stuff.
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: He turns up those three yards and open alleys and
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: lanes very quickly. So Cook sixth and yards per attempt
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: at five point four yards, Ray Davis twenty second at
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: four point eight. So you no bit of a of
• 52:42
  Speaker 1: a drop from six to twenty second, but you know,
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: a little over a half yard difference. Again, I think
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: that's due to the speed of Cook kind of making
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: up for that. A stuff rate those are stuff is
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: a run that goes for zero or less yards. Cook
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: his stuff rate fourteen point three percent. That was twenty fourth.
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: The higher you are, the better, The higher the ranking
• 53:04
  Speaker 1: the better. Here I should say, the higher the percentage,
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: the worse you are. So Cook fourteen point three percent,
• 53:09
  Speaker 1: which was twenty fourth out of fifty three. Ray Davis
• 53:12
  Speaker 1: twenty four percent, so ten percentage points higher. That was
• 53:15
  Speaker 1: fifty first out of fifty three. But again, when are
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: his runs coming end of game scenarios? You know kind
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: of people, even if it's in these end of game
• 53:27
  Speaker 1: scenarios and they're not stacking the box, you kind of
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: know the run is coming. So maybe you're getting a
• 53:31
  Speaker 1: run blitz, maybe you're getting the defense selling out a
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: little bit. So that still influences things a little bit here.
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: But I do think the stuff rate or lack thereof
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: for Cook is also indicative again of that speed because
• 53:43
  Speaker 1: he turns out yards very quickly, and the decisiveness. He
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: sees a hole, he gets it. He knows how to
• 53:48
  Speaker 1: let the play developer, he knows who to be. He's
• 53:49
  Speaker 1: got that speed, he's confident in it. He's schemed diverse
• 53:52
  Speaker 1: at this point and a plus runner in both gap
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: and zone. It's really interesting piece there. Again, there's no
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: heavy box numbers here, So Ray Davis being fifty first
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: out of fifty three qualifying running backs and stuff rate
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: is very interesting. But again I do think and the
• 54:06
  Speaker 1: game scenario is still impacted a bit, but that is
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: one to know positive play rates, so these are runs
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: that generate positive EPA, essentially runs that are a win
• 54:15
  Speaker 1: for the offense. James Cook forty five point two percent,
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: which was eighteenth, Ray Davis forty six percent, which was fourteenth.
• 54:24
  Speaker 1: So Ray Davis is higher in this regard. Yards after
• 54:27
  Speaker 1: contact per attempt. Oh, this is a good one for
• 54:31
  Speaker 1: lou if you're still watching. Uh So this is for
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: Sports Info Solutions. They had James cooks the yards after
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: contact per attempt at three point four, PFF had him
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: at three point three, so zero point one difference. Fun
• 54:42
  Speaker 1: So yards after contact per attempt James Cook eighth at
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: three point four per Sports Info Solutions, Ray Davis nineteenth
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: at three point one, so you know, point three difference
• 54:53
  Speaker 1: not a huge difference. There eleven spots in the rankings,
• 54:57
  Speaker 1: but the actual yards after contact per attempt is close
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: than the ringings indicate. But Cook finishing ahead of Davis again,
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: a kudos to Cook. I think improving this area. But
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: this is also another one where I think the you
• 55:12
  Speaker 1: have the tackle breaking ability and the run through ability
• 55:15
  Speaker 1: of Davis, but I think the speed will kind of
• 55:18
  Speaker 1: you gotta get that bowling ball where he'll kind of
• 55:20
  Speaker 1: ping kind of pinball off defenders and then kind of
• 55:24
  Speaker 1: go down where if Cook gets through a guy, that
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: speed is kind of carrying him forward and propelling him
• 55:29
  Speaker 1: for that. Juice is propelling him for it a little bit, Dave.
• 55:32
  Speaker 1: They're just different running styles. I think Davis is actually
• 55:35
  Speaker 1: shiftier and has more like kind of make a man
• 55:38
  Speaker 1: missing a foam booth capability, almost like Devin Singletary, not
• 55:41
  Speaker 1: to that level, whereas Cook is more of a slasher,
• 55:44
  Speaker 1: and I woulds say he runs like a solemn style skier.
• 55:47
  Speaker 1: But again I think that speed, both the long speed
• 55:49
  Speaker 1: and the short term juice and burst make a difference
• 55:52
  Speaker 1: in this area. So again, even when we're not talking
• 55:55
  Speaker 1: heavy boxes yards after contact or attempt neutral and light boxes,
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: Cook averages more than Davis. And that's with Cook seeing
• 56:04
  Speaker 1: significantly more attempts again one hundred and twenty six to
• 56:07
  Speaker 1: Ray Davis's fifty broken and mistackles forced per attempt. Pretty
• 56:12
  Speaker 1: similar here. Cook was at sixteen point seven percent, which
• 56:15
  Speaker 1: is twenty third. Ray Davis was at sixteen percent, which
• 56:17
  Speaker 1: was twenty six and that's it for their numbers. So
• 56:22
  Speaker 1: for those of you playing at home, I don't know,
• 56:26
  Speaker 1: Lou says, yes, of course, I'm still watching her, so silly,
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: I don't know, man, you could have tuned out. I
• 56:29
  Speaker 1: don't know. I also, I mean there's other sports going
• 56:31
  Speaker 1: on to night. Nobody tell me anything that's going on
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: because I avoid all spoilers or anything and everything baseball
• 56:35
  Speaker 1: and basketball, all that kind of stuff. But yeah, so
• 56:38
  Speaker 1: those are some the advanced metrics kind to put things
• 56:40
  Speaker 1: in perspective. So Cook, I think, from an advanced metrics standpoint,
• 56:44
  Speaker 1: outperformed Davis in a lot of areas, but didn't helpperform
• 56:48
  Speaker 1: him to this crazy en degree. It's not like Cook
• 56:51
  Speaker 1: was ninth and Davis was forty fifth, or you know,
• 56:55
  Speaker 1: these giant gaps in whe whether it was the actual
• 56:57
  Speaker 1: metric itself or the it wasn't a huge discrepancy on
• 57:02
  Speaker 1: a lot of them. Aside from excuse me, the stuffed
• 57:05
  Speaker 1: rate standpoint. I do like Ray Davis. I do think
• 57:12
  Speaker 1: he's a very good rotational back. We'll see if he's
• 57:17
  Speaker 1: built for more of a heavy workload this year, because
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: I do think he is going to get more of
• 57:21
  Speaker 1: a heavy workload. I think they're going to try and
• 57:24
  Speaker 1: incorporate him more into the offense. And I do think
• 57:26
  Speaker 1: he's a fit for kind of the downhill style of
• 57:32
  Speaker 1: the Bills offense, and they want to continue to build
• 57:34
  Speaker 1: more of this bully on offense, and they want to
• 57:37
  Speaker 1: run through your face and run through your chest. Ray
• 57:39
  Speaker 1: Davis is the guy for that. I think Cook started
• 57:42
  Speaker 1: to add some of that to his game last year,
• 57:45
  Speaker 1: but still kept the speed and the juice and the burst.
• 57:48
  Speaker 1: And I think that is what is so intriguing to
• 57:52
  Speaker 1: me with Cook, that just does he improve again this
• 57:57
  Speaker 1: year with yards after contact per attempt? Does he continue
• 58:00
  Speaker 1: to build on the physical nature of his game in
• 58:02
  Speaker 1: terms of like the power. He's never gonna be a
• 58:04
  Speaker 1: power back, but you know what I mean, Like, does
• 58:05
  Speaker 1: he continue to add more to the power game in addition?
• 58:09
  Speaker 1: But he doesn't slack off in the speed, because that's
• 58:11
  Speaker 1: one thing, right all. You know, he started breaking more
• 58:14
  Speaker 1: tackles and running through guys, but he felt slow or
• 58:16
  Speaker 1: sluggish out there. He did not, like I don't know
• 58:19
  Speaker 1: if it was a mentality standpoint, or he added a
• 58:21
  Speaker 1: little more weight or a little more muscle, a little
• 58:23
  Speaker 1: more density to him. But man like I I really
• 58:29
  Speaker 1: do think he improved a lot last year from a
• 58:31
  Speaker 1: physicality standpoint, and that is good in and of itself,
• 58:34
  Speaker 1: but that paired with not losing the speed that's scary.
• 58:40
  Speaker 1: I just think he matters so much for this offense. Now.
• 58:43
  Speaker 1: One thing that we didn't talk about pass protection. Ray
• 58:47
  Speaker 1: Davis is a better pass protector than James Cook. And
• 58:50
  Speaker 1: from a pass protection standpoint, Cook really hasn't had even
• 58:56
  Speaker 1: just throughout his career like a ton so as a
• 58:58
  Speaker 1: rookie in twenty twenty two, only eighteen and this includes
• 59:01
  Speaker 1: the playoffs eighteen pass blocking reps in twenty twenty two,
• 59:04
  Speaker 1: is a rookie forty one as a second year player
• 59:08
  Speaker 1: in twenty twenty three, but then only fourteen in twenty
• 59:10
  Speaker 1: twenty four. I think he improved as a pass protector.
• 59:14
  Speaker 1: I still don't think he's there yet. You know, you'll
• 59:17
  Speaker 1: get you know, he's got he against the Jets at home,
• 59:21
  Speaker 1: you know he you know, hits his Molli block and
• 59:23
  Speaker 1: he reads, gets to the outside, checks inside, gets outside,
• 59:27
  Speaker 1: sees Quincy Williams coming off the edge, hits him in
• 59:30
  Speaker 1: the legs, flips him, torpedoes him, takes his legs out
• 59:33
  Speaker 1: and you're like, that's an awesome block. And then Leo Chanal,
• 59:37
  Speaker 1: you know, rushes in the AFC Championship game and Cook
• 59:39
  Speaker 1: tries to give him a shoulder Shanal gets through, kind
• 59:41
  Speaker 1: of heats up Allen. It's it. It's a bit of
• 59:44
  Speaker 1: a mixed bag with him. I do think he has
• 59:47
  Speaker 1: improved as a pass protector. I don't think he's ever
• 59:53
  Speaker 1: going to be a plus pass protector. And that's just
• 59:57
  Speaker 1: for me. It's just because of the size in the
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 1: frame that he has. He is not slender, but even
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 1: just compared with like Davis and Ty Johnson, who are
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 1: good examples, right, you've got guys who are stockier, a
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 1: little more dense, different center of gravity in terms of
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 1: where their weight is throughout their body and how they
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 1: are proportioned, how they are built. So I don't think
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 1: it's necessarily something that Cook's technique is going to have
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 1: to be on point every single time when he passed protects,
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 1: because he's gonna be just by default if some guy's
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 1: blitzing and coming at you, right, you're going to be
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 1: the nail more often than you're gonna be the hammer,
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 1: So your form has to be on point. If you're
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 1: not the biggest do it. Even if you are got
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 1: some meat and some thickness to you, like in some density,
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 1: your form still has to be on point. So his
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 1: technique is improved, but it's still not there yet, and
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 1: then he doesn't have the margin for air because of
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 1: how he's built in his frame. I think he's a
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 1: willing blocker and he reads his assignments like you could
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 1: see him key in and be all right. But I
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 1: just think it's a miss bag. And he's had some
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 1: really impressive pass pro reps the past couple of years.
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 1: He's also had some really black kind of ones. But
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 1: I do think it's a significant part when you're talking
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 1: about a guy that wants to get paid, like a
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 1: top three back or five back or top tier however
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 1: you want to quantify it, Like you look at those
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 1: dudes like Sequon Barkley is a good pass protector. Christian
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 1: McCaffrey is a good pass protector. Album Kamara isn't a
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 1: stud pass protector, but he can carry and hold his own.
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 1: B Jon Robinson is a good pass protector. I mean,
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 1: he's not paid there yet, but he will be in
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 1: a couple of years, if not next year. Like that
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 1: type of level true three you know, quote unquote three
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 1: down back, you need to be able to pass protect.
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 1: And with Cook's ability as a receiver, I do think
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 1: his lack of ability as a pass protector hinders the
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 1: receiving ability is when are you catching passes on passing downs?
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 1: So you need to be on the field for those
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 1: passing downs. But can you be on the field if
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 1: you're a liability potentially in pass protection, And then someone
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 1: might say, like that's fine, just don't have a pass protector,
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 1: send him out on the routees. Fair, But then you're
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 1: only running five man protections with your offensive line. That's
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 1: how you can get gamed up. That's how you can
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 1: get caught if teams know you're gonna be running a
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 1: lot of five man protections. Like that type of predictability
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 1: and tendency giveaway also hurts you a little bit, So
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 1: it is something that plays into it. And I do
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 1: think Davis is a fine pass protector. He's got the willingness,
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 1: he's got the readability, and the end in terms of
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 1: scanning and figuring things out assignment sound. I do think
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 1: Cook is willing, and I do think Cook is assignment sound.
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 1: They're just built differently physically, and I think Davis being heavier, shorter,
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 1: a little more stocky, lower lower center of gravity, a
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 1: little more dense in terms of how he's built and
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 1: how he's proportioned, helps him kind of with stand the
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 1: nail versus hammer type of aspect that occurs when running
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 1: backs gets splitz are in general. James says, the tree
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 1: is glowing tonight, or it could be me. It does
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 1: kind of look like it because the garland is gold
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 1: and silver down there and then yellow up there, so
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 1: it's like intensifying the lights, which is fair. Argie says
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 1: Cook is kind of awful at Passport. I won't say awful.
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 1: I don't think he's a plus there. I think he's
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 1: I think he's inconsistent because there's some really great reps
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 1: with him in Passporo and there's also some really unfortunate ones.
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 1: So he's just inconsistent, which again I think ties a
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 1: lot into how he's built and his size and frame.
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 1: A question here from the entertainment, Hey, Aunt, do you
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 1: see Brady doing some two back stuff this year. I
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 1: would like that. I mean they did at times last
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 1: year we saw like Ty Johnson and James Cook, but
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 1: I would like more two back stuff. Give me any combination.
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 1: Give me Cook and Tie, give me Cook and Davis.
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 1: Give me Davis Tie like whatever. I'm a good I'm
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 1: a fan of good old pony personnel. Give me some
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 1: two back stuff. Get creative again. One of the run
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 1: games I loved well. Two of the run games I
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 1: loved last year. I've talked about it on social a bunch.
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 1: I've broken it down. I've I've shown a bunch of clips.
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 1: The Buccaneers run game last year and the Packers run
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 1: game last year, very creative, especially from a gap scheme perspective,
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 1: and they did a lot of cool stuff with two
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 1: back sets split gun, but you know, just two back sets,
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 1: you know, with the Buccaneers with or Shot White and
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 1: Bucky Irving, and then the Packers really was Josh Jacobson
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 1: like a whole cast of dudes. It was other running backs.
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 1: It was Jade Reid back there. I would like the
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 1: Bills to lean into some of that as another give
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 1: me more pistol, as I say every year, but little
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 1: wrinkles of the offense this year. Give me more pistol,
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 1: give me more. Give me two things with the running backs.
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 1: Give me more pony personnel, So two traditional running backs,
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 1: and also give me more twenty one. I think Reggie
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 1: Gilliam is under used and I think he's a hammer
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 1: as a blocker in the run game, and I want
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 1: to see him more. James says, thirteen formation this year.
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 1: I would also take thirteen personnel. Give give me thirteen
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 1: personnel with Kincaid out. I said this on the show before,
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 1: with Kincaid split out wide, and then give me Knox
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 1: and Hawes attached to the formation. And then while we're
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 1: at it, let's go six offensive linemen and then we're
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 1: just gonna maul the hell out of everybody. Or we'll
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 1: go play action and see if somebody can run with
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 1: Knocks or run with Hawes or who's covering Kincaid one
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 1: on one outside. Give me that, Give me that. Ralph says,
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 1: do you think Davis can improve in the zone run scheme? Actually,
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna pull on some numbers here. Yeah, I think
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 1: improvement in general is capable. For I don't want to
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 1: say like everybody at all times but I mean even
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 1: just look at what what Cook was as a gap
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 1: scheme runner in college versus what he is now. Like
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 1: that ability to improve and develop up it's possible, and
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 1: I think it translates to multiple schemes. It's just a
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 1: matter of continuing to get those repetitions. I know it's
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 1: gonna sound like super kind of gota keep you know,
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 1: getting time on task, got to keep building those reps
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 1: on and so forth. But I do think it is
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 1: an area where he can improve. And I'm pulling up
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 1: his college stats. They're taking forever, uh to load, but
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 1: I do think he has the presence for it based
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 1: off of I'm trying to get these thank you finally
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 1: they loaded, going to load Ray Davis's stats. Oh you're
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 1: not gonna give me? Why are you doing this to me?
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 1: So terrible? Uh, there we go, thank you, And this
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 1: is what I thought. So in his college career, four
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 1: hundred and fifty six zone runs compared to two hundred
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 1: and eighty gaps, so he had a good mixture of
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 1: gap in zone. But he was more of a zone
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 1: runner in college than he was a game gap scheme runner,
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 1: which is why I think the improvement in zone is
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 1: more just running those reps in the NFL, because it's
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 1: not like he's unfamiliar with zone and doesn't know how
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 1: to kind of press the line or watch a little bit.
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 1: I do think him began at being creative a little
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 1: bit more and or more decisive, just kind of taking
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 1: more ownership of making things happen rather than just going
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 1: with the play. But I think that I think that
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 1: involves more time on task, more confidence, more ability to
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 1: feel like you have ownership at your spot rather than
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 1: just being like, yo, I'm a rookie. Let me do
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 1: my job and just get in get out type of deal.
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 1: But I think he's a good zone runner. I think
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 1: he's a good gap scheme runner. I think he's a
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 1: good pass catching back and a good blocker. He does
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 1: a lot of things well. He's above average and a
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 1: lot of things. I don't know if he's a plus
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 1: guy in any one area, but he's above average and
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 1: a lot of Oh he's above average to above above
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 1: average in a lot of ways. And I think he's
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 1: comfortable in zone. It's just a matter of continuing to
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 1: run him with that at the NFL level. And now
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 1: I'm going to look up his NFL stance because I
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 1: had him and then they went away, and then this year, yeah,
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 1: I will say even decently balanced with the bills and
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 1: as a rookie sixty eight gap fifty zone, so the
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 1: decent bounce almost close to fifty to fifty, which is cool. JOSEPHS.
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 1: And what is your thought on Cook against stack boxes
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 1: and whether or not that is another avenue for him
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 1: to develop. I think he's good against stack boxes out
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 1: of I have this in my notes too. Out of
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 1: thirty eight qualifying running backs, he was twelve in EPA
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 1: per attempt at positive point zero one against stack boxes,
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 1: which again not amazing, not terrible for those of you
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 1: who playing at home. Ray Davis was twenty ninth at
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 1: negative zero point one to three, but again it's different
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 1: when you're selling out and you kind of know what's
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 1: coming versus what's not coming. What's also interesting though, Ray
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 1: Davis's yards after contact per attempt versus stacked or heavy
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 1: boxes two point seven yards after contact per attempt, which
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 1: is fourteenth James Cook two point three which is twenty seven.
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 1: Have some fun pieces. I think Cook's a good running
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 1: back in general, Like I think he feasts against the
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 1: light boxes. I think he's built for like a spread
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 1: run game like two by two, three by one. Let
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 1: him take advantage of a six man box or a
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 1: five man box if you can get in and just eat
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 1: up that free yardage because of the space and the
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 1: angles and the leverage. But I think he's a competent
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 1: back in almost anything like zone gap, light box, neutral box,
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 1: stack box. Again, he's not some hammer that you know
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 1: he's gonna pound through and run through defensive tackles and
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 1: guys like that. You want him working in a bit
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 1: more space. But his speed is an advantage even with
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 1: the heavy box, because if you're not gap sound or
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 1: you get displaced as a defense, you might not have
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 1: those guys on the back end who forced him out
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 1: of bounds. And you know, okay, turns this ten yard
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 1: run into an eleven run. Eleven yard run. Now, if
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 1: you're stacking the box and he gets through, that ten
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 1: yard run becomes like a forty yard touchdown or whatever
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 1: it is because there's nobody back there, you know, playing
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 1: safety net. But good question, Good question, Ryan says, I
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 1: think the cook can't block narrative is a weak talking
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 1: point when it comes to whether or not we should
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 1: pay him or not, or whether when it comes to
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 1: whether we should pay him or not. I think it's
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 1: valid because it's something that he needs to improve, and
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 1: it like well, like I mentioned, it's tied to his
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 1: receiving value. Like part of why I loved Cook coming
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 1: out of Georgia was I was like, oh, man, what
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 1: he could be as a runner, but what he could
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 1: be as a pass catcher. And I still don't even
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 1: think they've unleashed him as like a pass catcher because
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 1: he could run actual routes. But you're just limited a
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 1: bit if you're having him out there on third down
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 1: and he's not going to be pass protecting, Like that
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 1: means again you are so are you just running five
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 1: man protections? Are you keeping a tight end into chip
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 1: or near the line? Okay? Are you keeping are you
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 1: gonna have him chip at all? Or not do anything?
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 1: All of those things lead to certain things. From a
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 1: tendency standpoint, There's only certain formations you can get into.
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 1: There's only so many looks you can get into, and
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 1: then the concepts you can get into off of that,
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 1: and then the defense picking up on that they know
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 1: like it's more of kind of like you never want
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 1: the defense to know like, oh, if they do this,
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 1: only two things can happen. You want them to be like, man,
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 1: if they do this, twenty five things could happen. If
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 1: Cook Camp block or he's a liability, or you're not
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 1: going to use him as that blocker. You could still
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 1: use him as a pass catcher. But it just limits
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 1: the menu of what you can do, and then you
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 1: become a little more predictable and there's a little more
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 1: tendency and tells that are available to a defense. That's
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 1: where it comes from for me. I also think that's
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 1: where it comes from in the league. But you know,
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 1: to each their own, Low says, Cook is a willing blocker,
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 1: but his forum has always been i'll say spotty because
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 1: he lunges and gets off balance with it. He's prone
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 1: to mistakes and that means unreliable. I think that's fair.
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 1: I think that's fair. And again, because of how he's
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 1: built his size and frame, you don't have any margin
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 1: for air and that puts him at a disadvantage. What else,
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 1: what Claude says, if you have a running back of
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 1: Camp blocks bags is just going to send one more
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 1: than you can handle to blow up a critical play.
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 1: That's kind of what was in my head as I
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 1: was speaking. That's fair. Mhm. What else Ryan says, Hopefully
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 1: Anderson replaces Edwards's left guard, as well as Torrents taking
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 1: another steps, our old line improves even more us using
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 1: six linemen last year's skewed performance of our O line
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 1: more positively, m I think the on line was still
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 1: good even just with the five man stuff and the
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 1: sixth offensive lineman stuff is super deadly, because how do
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 1: you match that if you're a defense, especially considering the
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 1: Bills have athletic pass catching tight ends who you can
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 1: hip off and you can have Alec Anderson be that
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 1: inline guy. But I think there, I don't think they're
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 1: using six linemen kind of skewed. I think it helped
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 1: to kind of put more emphasis on the old line.
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 1: But even when it was just a five on line
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 1: on the field with twelve personnel or eleven in a
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 1: traditional sense, they were still moving guys like they have
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 1: a very competent, good offensive line. Oh good coming here
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 1: from Claude saying the problem is with Cook, it's with
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 1: the position he plays, and it's a glit of talent.
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 1: Breis Hall and Kenneth Walker don't have second contracts either.
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 1: That's a very fair, very fair point. Oh, John says
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 1: Cook's probably the most controversial player since Tremaine Edmonds.
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, maybe he might be right now.
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 1: Oh that's a fun one. You might be right. I'm
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 1: trying to think of anybody else that maybe maybe Kean Coleman.
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 1: Just what I see from people, I think some people
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 1: are super high on some people are like, now he's terrible,
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 1: we made a mistake. Yeah, but Cook is a fair one,
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 1: fair shot, Ryan says in regards to Cook, But they'd
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 1: also don't use him ever. He's a willing blocker and
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 1: more reps will help make you better. I think that's fair.
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 1: But it's always just that balance of getting a guy
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 1: time on task to make him better versus how much
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 1: does it hurt you in the moment and make you
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 1: vulnerable in the moment. I think that's the type of thing.
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 1: But a fair point there, Ryan, Oh, everybody in the
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 1: chat saying Diggs, Oh, I was talking about like right now,
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 1: like on the team right now. Yeah, if it's if
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 1: we're talking like since Edmund's in total Yeah, it's Stefan Diggs.
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 1: I mean Diggs is probably more contra well, different type
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 1: of controversial than Evans. Well, yeah, but it was a
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 1: thousand percent beste fon Diggs. I thought we were talking
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 1: about just like who's on the team right now, which
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 1: I guess I read that wrong. Yeah, it would be
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 1: Stefan Tacks. Not even close. Oh, Ryan says, well, we're
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 1: lucky to have Chromer. Who's the best offensive line coach
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 1: in the league. You never let him go. Man, there's
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 1: several really good old line coaches Stoutland in Philly, Andy,
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 1: Heck in Kansas City. You've got Chromer. There's a bunch
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 1: of really good old line coaches. Chromer is legit, Like
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 1: you could make a case for Chromer being the best,
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 1: and even if not, he's still like it's because like,
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 1: oh he's a nine point seven out of ten, but
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 1: there's a several dudes that are like nine point eights
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 1: and nine point nine's Like, Chromer is so good, Yeah,
• 1:15:29
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• 1:15:33
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  Speaker 1: had them do an event for me literally two weekends ago,
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  Speaker 1: The food is great. I don't deny it. Oh that's
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 1: funny with Lou talking about uh, like your comment about
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 1: chromer there, uh Lou, and then John saying just don't
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 1: steal his beach chair. Ooh, oh wow, John says, if
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 1: you had to choose three year extension at fifteen million
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 1: a year for McGovern or for Cook, wow, hold on,
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 1: I want to check. I want to check center contracts.
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 1: So Connor McGovern getting fifteen million a year at center
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 1: would make him the third highest paid center in the NFL.
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 1: Creed Humphrey is first at eighteen million a year. Cam
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 1: Jurgens is second at seventeen and then Drew Dollman was
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 1: signed by the Bears this offseason. He's third at fourteen million.
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 1: Oh ah, I don't really want to do either of those,
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 1: but I would prefer sorry, I would prefer to have
• 1:19:49
  Speaker 1: Connor McGovern back. Oh. That's a tough one though, just
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 1: because I don't like the money for either. I think
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 1: it's an overpay for either. I'd rather do. I'd rather
• 1:19:59
  Speaker 1: get McGovern Like. Ah, I don't want to give my
• 1:20:05
  Speaker 1: govern fifteen a year. I want to take that money
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 1: and give mc govern like eleven million a year, and
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 1: then I want to give the other for a one
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 1: year four million dollar contractor like a wide receiver. That's
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 1: what I want to do. I'm gonna cheat, sorry, Oh,
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 1: Joe says the first time I try one pie, which
• 1:20:22
  Speaker 1: will hopefully be in the fall, will be a top
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 1: tier moment. It's going to be one of my first
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 1: spots to hit. You better get it. Also, if you're
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 1: gonna come here in the fall, you better hit me
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 1: up when you're here. But you know, to each their
• 1:20:31
  Speaker 1: own if you don't have time. I get it. I'm
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 1: just one of the little people. But it's fine, got yourself,
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  Speaker 1: swampie pizza. It will change your it will change it
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  Speaker 1: will forever. Well my yeah, hiccups, what is going on here?
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  Speaker 1: It will forever change you, forever change you. Umm oh,
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  Speaker 1: Lou says if those are my choices in Chromer, I
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  Speaker 1: trust and I'm paying Oh my god, hiccup and like crazy,
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  Speaker 1: I gotta end this show in chromer, I trust and
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  Speaker 1: I'm paying Cook. But I don't like either. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I'm a governor for fifteen and cook for fifteen. I
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  Speaker 1: don't like either of those. For fifteen. I'm legitimately torn
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  Speaker 1: because I I don't like either. Yeah, I'm torn. I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna yeah, I'm gonna cheat and give that answer that
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  Speaker 1: I cheated with. That was really tough. John, Power to
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  Speaker 1: you for giving a real tough one. As we kind
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  Speaker 1: of end here. Oh my god, all right, that one
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  Speaker 1: was crazy. I gotta go. I'm throwing up the band.
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  Speaker 1: This as tootles, folks, because I can't stop pickupping and
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  Speaker 1: this is crazy. Hold on, I'm gonna take a drink
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  Speaker 1: of water so I can struggle my way through this.
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  Speaker 1: Thanking everybody who tuned in to this episode. I really
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  Speaker 1: hope I don't hack up again. I'm like legitimately dreading it.
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate everybody who tuned in live. I know we're
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  Speaker 1: in the slow point of the off season, so I
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  Speaker 1: appreciate everybody who tuned in to not having to be
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  Speaker 1: alone on the show on a Tuesday night. And again,
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  Speaker 1: apologies for I thought hup was gonna come. Apologies for
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  Speaker 1: not doing the show last week. I will be doing
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  Speaker 1: some extra episodes with disguised coverage this week next week
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  Speaker 1: in some form or fashion, to be making up for
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  Speaker 1: everything so that you still get the episode quantity and
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  Speaker 1: quality of course that you should be getting with this show. Sorry,
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  Speaker 1: I took a breath to make sure I would hick
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  Speaker 1: up again. So yeah, so keep on the lookout for
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  Speaker 1: that again. I don't have it locked in. In terms of scheduling,
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  Speaker 1: and planning. It's more just when I can fit them in.
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  Speaker 1: So you'll see some last not last minute, but you'll
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  Speaker 1: see some social posts on Blue Sky, on Twitter. I'll
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  Speaker 1: kind of just put them out put the episode. You
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  Speaker 1: as soon as I can. Got some more individual player profiles.
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  Speaker 1: Probably gonna do some stuff with some film. I see
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  Speaker 1: claud Claude says, a great show and I hold your breath. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: but then if I hold my breath and everybody's just
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 1: watching me hold my breath, like, I don't know what
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna do, but I appreciate you. Oh that's really nice, John,
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  Speaker 1: Thank you very much for that. I don't like to
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  Speaker 1: pull up positive stuff when I'm by myself. I feel
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  Speaker 1: like it's corny to just be like, oh, look at this,
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  Speaker 1: look at this nice thing somebody said about me, Look
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  Speaker 1: at me. But I see all these nice comments that
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  Speaker 1: are coming through from everybody, and I appreciate them a lot.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you very much for everyone in general. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I like that one, John, that means a lot. I
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  Speaker 1: like that specific kind of feedback, and that is something
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  Speaker 1: I'm cognizant ofve so thank you very much for that.
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  Speaker 1: ir all caps with an extra major voicetid I scare
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  Speaker 1: the hiccups away. I don't know if the scary one
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  Speaker 1: has ever worked for me. I've had to do the
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  Speaker 1: whole my breath one and sometimes it works, but the
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  Speaker 1: scaring one I don't think has ever worked for me.
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  Speaker 1: And although I don't think any I've kind of known
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  Speaker 1: that someone's gonna try and scare me. So what hasn't worked?
• 1:23:57
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