We have all watched with amazement the last two days as numerous NFL teams make big trades involving WRs requiring premium round draft picks.
Many Cowboys fans are asking, “Why couldn’t we get more than a 5th for Amari Cooper?”
Two reasons:
- The big thing that happened lowering Cooper’s trade value was Stephen “Giggles” Jones opening his big mouth on the radio and in print and talking publicly about how hard it was going to be to keep Amari at $20 mil a season. He might as well have plastered that on billboards in every NFL city. “The Cowboys are parting ways with Cooper”, thus making it easy to hard bargain the Cowboys in a trade.Stupid, stupid, stupid.
- The smaller reason was Coop’s decline the last two years. He has only averaged about12 yds per catch the last two seasons, and last year only avg 57.7 yds per game. Not big time receiver stats.
The first reason was completely avoidable. Front office 101- never talk publicly to telegraph what you are going to do with a player. SJ is the laziest executive in the NFL.
Fellow Cowboys fans- if you don’t know it by now it’s obvious. The Jones FO is arrogant and stupid. A terrible FO combination. They talk constantly about things smart NFL FOs shut up about. Look at JJ last night flashing a copy of their draft board. It’s unparalleled stupidity and arrogance. Jerry has to “prove” to the NFL world he’s smarter than they are. And it’s so obvious he’s not.
In case you didn’t already know it- the emperor and his giggling son are naked.
Thanks for the good post Bob.
I agree with you, mostly on point #1.
Truth.
My question on #2 is how much of that may also be on Dak and Moore?
A few years ago, Moore seemed like he was an innovative offensive mind, the last 2, not so much.
I'm sure you watched the Kurt Warner video on the Noners playoff loss.
It blew me away (seemed to blow Kurt away too, lol).
We kept calling the same plays, over and over, that were not working. The Niners had good tape and had us figured out, and Moore had no answer.
Kurt also subtly called out Dak. There was one play, near the end of the game, where we came to the LOS and the Niners were is 4 deep zone. The called play was to run one WR, deep, into each of the 4 zones. The absolute wrong play for this defense.
Dak did not change the play, as he should have seeing this D.
So I think scheme had a lot to do with Coops decline, and lack or targets. (I believe Coop was 89th is WR targets)
We will see IMO, if Watson plays, and the Browns use Amari like a true #1.
I wouldn't be surprised to see Coop put of huge numbers, and his salary will look like a bargain in light of some of these new WR contracts.
IMO, Coop is yet another great example of asset mismanagement.
I would have restructed him, and if you wanted to trade him later build his value so you get a good asset in return.