Recapping Cook's insane day

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Jeremy White and Joe DiBiase discuss RB James Cook's incredible career day against the Panthers

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00:00When we were talking in the James Cook conversations, like how, whether or not they should extend

00:05him, I'd pointed out many times he's a top 10 back and over-expected every single year

00:10since he kind of got the job.

00:12Last season, James Cook's yards over-expected was 167 for the year.

00:18Okay.

00:18In this game, it was 121.

00:20Wow.

00:21121 yards over-expected.

00:23So he's probably going over last year's number for the season at some point.

00:27Or is he already over it?

00:28He's at 225.

00:29All right, he's already over it.

00:30And he leads the league.

00:32Number one.

00:33Wow.

00:34The number one running back in getting...

00:35Really?

00:35More than Jonathan Taylor?

00:36203.

00:37That's crazy.

00:38Taylor has been stacking these long runs every week.

00:42Leads the league in rushing yards over-expected.

00:45And that's, I mean, if you really want to dig into the Jonathan Taylor comparison, per attempt,

00:50he's number one by almost a half yard.

00:54Wow.

00:551.81 yards over-expected per carry for James Cook.

01:00Last year in that department, the league leader was Derrick Henry.

01:03His number was lower.

01:05You have, in Cook in this rushing offense, when they give him the ball and, you know,

01:11when it's at its best, he's the best back in football.

01:16Kind of.

01:17Mm-hmm.

01:18So, man.

01:19It's still funny because it doesn't...

01:21You watch Bijan and you watch Henry at times, McCaffrey, and it just pops off the screen.

01:28Cook still, to me, sometimes seems like he's jogging.

01:31I know.

01:31Through the defense.

01:32But I think there is a, like, I really want to, like, appreciate the way he runs,

01:39which is, I think, more Le'Veon Bell-esque, just let me slow play this, be patient, find

01:46my hole, slash through a gap that maybe Ray Davis is not going to get through.

01:51Yep.

01:51There's a lot of slithering, it feels like, to his...

01:54Yeah.

01:54Like, he gets in line...

01:55He sees a...

01:56If Derrick Henry is a truck, then, like, what is...

02:00Cook is like a little moped that's, like, inning out of traffic.

02:04He gets his yards over expectation, not by blasting through guys, but, oh, he's going

02:09to squeeze between two tackles and fall forward five yards.

02:15Right.

02:15He ran so well yesterday.

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