Bills' James Cook logs incredible career first in dominant performance against Seattle Seahawks
It's easy to think about Josh Allen first when you think about the offense of the Buffalo Bills, but what the Bills are getting from the ground game has been electric, and opens everything up for Allen and the passing attack.Against the Seattle Seahawks, running back James Cook recorded 100+ rushing yards and 2+ touchdowns […]
It's easy to think about Josh Allen first when you think about the offense of the Buffalo Bills, but what the Bills are getting from the ground game has been electric, and opens everything up for Allen and the passing attack.
Against the Seattle Seahawks, running back James Cook recorded 100+ rushing yards and 2+ touchdowns for the first time in his career.
Cook was gashing the Seahawks, averaging 6.5 yards per carry on the day, finishing with 111 rushing yards and 2 scores on 17 carries. This was the most balanced and positive offensive performance that we've seen from the Bills since their Week 3 outing against the Jaguars.
When Cook ran in his second touchdown of the day, he did it with emphatic, hard running, going straight through a defender at the goal line. It put the game to bed, giving Buffalo a 31-3 lead.
"It's just the momentum. All these things lead to momentum," head coach Sean McDermott said when asked if Cook's hard running is a boost to the sideline. "You see guys straining. You see guys giving great effort. You see offensive lineman finishing plays where James has the ball, and they're finishing right on his heels when he's getting tackled, they're running to the football. The defensive front runs to the football. You see Rasul Douglas on the first — I believe it was the first series or second series, they tried to run the ball off tackle outside. They crack the safety, he comes up, makes a great tackle on a heck of a running back. So those things are important to us as a team. And it's never one player, one coach. It's playing good team football."
Cook was the embodiment of the physical, punishing tone that the Bills want to impose on their opponents, and quarterback Josh Allen saw it early.
"Oh yeah, he's when he's running hard like that, and the second touchdown, he lowered the boom," Allen said. "You know he's, I wouldn't say he has the biggest frame, but he can be an angry runner, and you saw that today."
Cook is now up to seven rushing touchdowns on the season after the big day in Seattle, and entered the day with four rushing touchdowns combined over the previous two seasons. Cook emerging into a focal point of the Bills offense gives this team an entirely new dynamic that their opponents have to focus on.
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