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Look, if a team really wanted Cooper, they would have beat the offer from Cleveland, no matter if Stephen said he’s in their plans or not. Teams will pay for talent and it wouldn’t matter who said what.Our FO would likely have been able to get something better than a 5th if Stephen had not spoken publicly several times about Cooper not being in their plans. He could have at least kept a poker face and acted like he was still in their plans instead of acting like they were about to release him.
I’m well aware of Cooper’s drop in performance. I’ve posted about it several times. But if Jalen Reagor was enough for a 4th rounder, Cooper should have yielded better IMO.
And by the way- if our Cowboys win a SB I will be thrilled.
If, say, Carolina wanted a WR and Cooper is a player that they valued as a great receiver, they aren’t going to sit there and let Cleveland get him for a 5th. They would offer a 4th if they thought Amari was that good. Of course they would. If they viewed Cooper as a player worth a first round pick, no way in hell they let him go to Cleveland for a 5th because Stephen said he wasn’t in their plans. It makes no sense.
If Carolina thinks he’s worth more than a 4th and they need a WR, why on Earth wouldn’t they offer the 4th? They would.
They wouldn’t sit there and say, “Cooper is a great receiver that is worth a first round pick, but we don’t want to give up a 4th because Stephen said he isn’t in their plans. He might cut Amari and then we can try to sign him. We will just have to hope that he wants to come to Carolina and not go somewhere else, because he’s a great receiver.”
No. If they think Cooper is worth that much and the best offer Dallas has is a 5th, then the team would offer a 4th, regardless what the heck Stephen says. Great WR’s are very valuable and if a team thought Cooper was worth that, they would have been falling over themselves to give a 4th for him rather than hope he might sign there as a free agent. If Amari was that good, the offer then would become a 3rd, and then a 2nd, and so forth.
Instead, what happened was teams saw the amount of his contract that they would have to pay, heard the whispers that he rarely practiced, and that football wasn’t that important to him. They all decided to pass on Cooper for better than a 5th round pick. A 5th was worth it to Cleveland, so they made the trade.
None of that was because of anything anyone said. It was because Cooper simply wasn’t worth anything more than that. His play and his baggage dictated what the Cowboys were able to get in a trade.