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Dallas Cowboys: Can Jonathan Cooper jump-start his career in Big D?

http://thelandryhat.com/2017/07/14/dallas-cowboys-jonathan-cooper-jump-start-career/


...This offseason Cooper re-signed with the Cowboys on a one-year deal. Through OTA’s and minicamp, he’s been getting reps at left guard and has a solid chance to start this season.

With Cooper the problem is obviously durability, but he still has all of the talent that made him a top ten pick. To win the starting job, he’ll have to beat out Chaz Green and Joe Looney, and prove to the coaching staff he can stay healthy.

The advantages Cooper has on Green and Looney are his mobility and quickness. Dallas likes to pull their guards and use a zone blocking scheme, which makes these qualities a necessity. If (and its a big if) Cooper can stay on the field, he should be the starting left guard going into 2017.

All things considered, Jonathan Cooper is one of the five most talented offensive linemen on the Dallas Cowboys roster. While there are concerns about his durability, he should end up starting this season. Hopefully, Cooper makes the most of this opportunity and revives his career in Dallas.
 
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Dallas Cowboys: Can Jonathan Cooper jump-start his career in Big D?

http://thelandryhat.com/2017/07/14/dallas-cowboys-jonathan-cooper-jump-start-career/


...This offseason Cooper re-signed with the Cowboys on a one-year deal. Through OTA’s and minicamp, he’s been getting reps at left guard and has a solid chance to start this season.

With Cooper the problem is obviously durability, but he still has all of the talent that made him a top ten pick. To win the starting job, he’ll have to beat out Chaz Green and Joe Looney, and prove to the coaching staff he can stay healthy.

The advantages Cooper has on Green and Looney are his mobility and quickness. Dallas likes to pull their guards and use a zone blocking scheme, which makes these qualities a necessity. If (and its a big if) Cooper can stay on the field, he should be the starting left guard going into 2017.

All things considered, Jonathan Cooper is one of the five most talented offensive linemen on the Dallas Cowboys roster. While there are concerns about his durability, he should end up starting this season. Hopefully, Cooper makes the most of this opportunity and revives his career in Dallas.
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I don't know if the conclusion here is correct, that Cooper is one of the five most talented linemen on the roster. There's no doubt about his potential coming out of college, but I don't know if that potential every really showed up on the field, especially with the serious injury he had seeming to have robbed him of some of the talent that got him drafted in the first round.

I hope that he's that player teams coveted coming out of college, but right now, he's just a guy that none of the teams he has been on has felt worthy of keeping.
 
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I don't know if the conclusion here is correct, that Cooper is one of the five most talented linemen on the roster. There's no doubt about his potential coming out of college, but I don't know if that potential every really showed up on the field, especially with the serious injury he had seeming to have robbed him of some of the talent that got him drafted in the first round.

I hope that he's that player teams coveted coming out of college, but right now, he's just a guy that none of the teams he has been on has felt worthy of keeping.
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Based on when he was in college but I don't think the writer even pulled up his games from last season to look at him. I thought he was good, but the writer appears to be basing it all on where he was drafted and not considering that the injuries could have affected his talent.

The Landry Hat has 5th graders writing articles for them.
 
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Competition, that should breed continued success for the OLine...the article mentions Green and Looney, but I would say Bell is better competition than either of them
 
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All he has to do is be average. If he can do that the line will be BETTER than last year. Collins is a huge upgrade over Free at RT
 
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All he has to do is be average. If he can do that the line will be BETTER than last year. Collins is a huge upgrade over Free at RT
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Do we really know that? I think Collins will be fine at RT and yes, Free was beaten badly a handful of times last year but most of the time he was pretty good, I thought. And having gotten used to Leary at LG has spoiled me a bit. I want whoever plays there to at least be almost as good.
 
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Collins should be decent at RT. He will have some growing pains in real games. Even if he looks really good in PS games, there will be fronts and stunts and blitzes he will see for the 1st time. However he can't be worse than Free at pass protection, but how about run blocking, at first? Free was pretty good at that.
However in the long run, Collins will be better.

We have 2 often injured players though vying for the LG position, Green and Cooper. Either will be fine, we just need them to be healthy, or at least one of them be health when the other is not.

I think the swing tackle issue could finally be settled. There is Cleary and Bell, if he looks as good as we hope he can be, and if needed Green, if healthy.
Looney is still the back up C, as well as an option as backup G.

They will probably go 9 at OL to start the season, or have one of these guys hanging around the area just in case one is needed.
 
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Based on when he was in college but I don't think the writer even pulled up his games from last season to look at him. I thought he was good, but the writer appears to be basing it all on where he was drafted and not considering that the injuries could have affected his talent.

The Landry Hat has 5th graders writing articles for them.
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What you might be missing about them, is a fresh and enthusiastic approach that doesn't include a strong tone of doubt just for a view. They do present an enthusiastic comparison basis for their majority of attempts...as opposed to a coroner's search for cause of death and with blood still under the finger nails. Think?
 
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Pretty good? I must have missed those games. His play slipped badly the last two years.
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I'm fully trusting in the current Cowboys coaching staff. They have assembled this quality group, that does have quality depth right now. They like the guy and have put him in place for what they intend to be a successful restart. I have to trust fully, in their game plan,..and don't mind waiting to see their directions. Direction with these coaches, is a very strong thing.
 
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big dog cowboy said:
Pretty good? I must have missed those games. His play slipped badly the last two years.
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Preach big dog. I'm continually amazed at those who still maintain Free was a good player these past two seasons. Dude was beaten like a rented mule on most snaps. And when he wasn't he was getting flagged
 
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Preach big dog. I'm continually amazed at those who still maintain Free was a good player these past two seasons. Dude was beaten like a rented mule on most snaps. And when he wasn't he was getting flagged
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Yea, the offense could barely perform...
 
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