In the wild card game vs GB he threw a tantrum on the sideline and disappeared. This year against the Eagles he single handedly cost the Cowboys the win. Remember i said he wasn’t clutch. I wont argue against his productivity. I argue that I haven’t seen Lamb produce in the clutch moments. I’m a fan I hope he proves me wrong. Those packers and eagles games leave me with disappointment.
Can't argue with those before and after numbers. Good post.
Fair points.
This post matches my feelings on the matter.
How about the catching the ball part? I saw drops and Pickens in the thread title and thought you were talking about his dropsies, not saying Cee Dee routinely drops passes. He had a bad game. From what I see, Pickens has lapses in concentration which is why he is a great contested catch maker but drops the routine or easy passes.
Late to this post but I think you might be on to something. Sometimes the moment is too big for CD and he mentally folds, and blames Dak and has an outburst. The pressure is just too much at his age being a young guy. You feed a guy a ball all the time and their numbers are going to be good.
Clear as day? 2nd most yards for a season in Oakland? He was doing so bad in Oakland that you trade a first round pick to obtain him mid season, which turns around what would've been a bad season for a quarterback into a good one? Many of us where here at the time, and remember the news paper articles and sports radio shows. Amari was known for turning around Dak career; Dak was not known for making Amari great. But you go ahead and rewrite history if it makes you feel better. There plenty of other teams that could've traded for Amari and he would've been just as successful at. He went from one badly run organization to another at the end of the day.
Did you see how his stats declined before being traded? Do you know how stats work? Do you understand the saying "What have you done for me lately? ". I guess not.
I think the general consensus at the time was that his stats being down wasn't on Amari and moreso on a badly run organization and that the cowboys won that trade, even gambling away a first round pick. You have any articles or sources that claim that Dak made Amari. Pretty much at the time, it was pretty much accepted that his presence here turned around a bad season by Dak.
General consensus was we needed a real WR. When we made the trade,everybody hated the trade saying we overpaid for a first round bust because Cooper was having a terrible season .
This was around the time when we still had a great Offensive line. No reason that a good quarterback shouldn't be productive with that kind of offensive line and a true #1 receiver. you also didn't list Amari coopers stats after he left the cowboys. Which clearly shows that Dak didn't make Amari into a great receiver, that he had good seasons before the cowboys, during the cowboys and after the cowboys. You also didn't mention that people were pointing to his stats after he left on this board as an argument that we should've kept him around. I still believe that Dak may not have gotten a sweat deal here if Amari wouldn't have rejuvenated his career. We're lucky that That we've had Amari and then got Lamb.
Amari got paid because of playing in Dallas with Dak. He wasn't getting a big second contract with the Raiders playing with Carr. He was about to have two consecutive bad seasons before being traded.
Game 1 was really bad for CeeDee, but was not typical for CeeDee. CeeDee has been at least top 3 or 4 in the NFL the last few years.
Obvious, you didn't frequent the board in 2018, people thought that Dak was done with before Amari turned things around with him. Watching games, remember on national TV a defense of one team, saying that they had figured Dak out, embarrassing to have to hear that during a national broadcast. Dak was seen as a Gimmick Quarterback, a one trick pony if you will, whose gimmick was the run-pass option. Yes, Dak did grow as a quarterback and proved he was more than just a gimmick QB, but this was during a time when doubts about Dak as a quarterback were setting in, and again, without Amari Cooper he wouldn't have turned 2018 around and might of not been the starting quarterback here as he is today. People will always hate trading a number one draft pick away, for good reason, as they do love getting two number picks from trading a player away. We going to pretend that it wasn't said in the Media and Cowboys fans alike that the cowboys won that trade with the Raiders. Heck even at the time, local sports talk were talking about that on the one hand the Raiders were a badly run organization that hadn't used Amari right. Like I said, Amari had good numbers on certain years before the cowboys, while being here, and after he left. He has proven himself to have been legit and was able to be legit without Dak. At the end of the day, Dak wasn't able to elevate other wide receivers around him and a midseason trade had to be made to save the season.
You are just stating your opinion while I am stating facts. And my point from the start was about Amari getting his bag and not about Dak. So why do you keep bringing up Dak? Dak didn't get paid till 2021 Amari got paid in 2019. You’re not making any sense.
your original claim: "Amari Cooper's stats before and after coming to Dallas. It's clear as day he got paid because he came to Dallas and was able to "elevate" his game playing with Dak. He wasn't doing it in Oakland with Carr." That was your original response to the Claim of "It's the opposite for Amari, he helped rejuvenate Dak's career when it was at a low point." when in reference to Pickens going to get rich because of Dak.
A couple of things here.. First, I'm not a big believer in the whole "elevate receivers" thing. No QB can make a receiver catch the ball or get open. Hurns and Austin simply were not good enough. Secondly, obviously Dak was in the beginning of his 3rd season having lost Dez and Witten in the same offseason. That's two all pro type players taken away from a QB still finding his way and it was too much.
Most here don't even comprehend what it means.
