You get the feeling that Cooper and Collins are cap causalities more so because of their personality and related consequences.
Collins bribed someone and cost himself and the team embarrassment besides not being on the field for 5 games after being given a season to recover and get healthy.
The same can be said of Cooper. He missed 2 games - really 3 and it disrupted the continuity of the passing game while costing 20 million with a newer contract. It could be argued the offense didn’t really recover from that when in the hunt for the one seed.
The FO had seen enough of these two and cut bait with decent backups available for less.
Is this about team culture? I think there is something to it.
