Amari Cooper is clearly a talented NFL wide receiver. He has size, speed, and superior route running ability. So why have both the Raiders and the Cowboys cut ties with him after 3-1/2 seasons in each location?
The missed trade for Brandon Cooks, and the potential signing of Odell Beckham, Jr. means that it wasn’t money that drove the decision to part with Cooper. Both players will command salaries similar to Cooper.
From the outside looking in, it appears that Amari has always been the consummate professional in how he handles himself with fans and the media. So it is a bit baffling that he has only had a shelf life of about 42 months in each location prior to being traded a second time to the Browns for only a 5th round pick.
The reality is that although offensive production is down in Dallas this year, we don’t know how much of that to attribute to the loss of Cooper. The injury to Dak, and the renewed commitment to running the football have also contributed to the lower overall production through the first 8 games.
Frankly, I’m left wondering what it is about Cooper that we don’t know.
Umm, they didn't make the Cooks trade
over money and compensation, the AC trade was 75% to save immediate cap space, yes money was the bigger reason even of the rest was OTHER... 22mil cap hit cut times save 16mil put together a deeper team.
its no mystery please all of you atop with Cooper you would think this guy was Rice hes not even as good as Dez was on his 3 year elite seasons. AC is very good starting WR, nothing more, nothing less, hes not special and replacing his production was not hard.
we may not have gotten better, but we are no worse without him, 6-2 says it all Lamb who BTW was our leading WR last year is a1 , need proof, Lamb AND AC STATS ARE NEARLY IDENTICAL. odd with such a bad wr core without all mighty next coming of jerry rice in cooper to draw coverage, somehow Lamb has the same stats and let's stop the worst with Brissett, really what did Cooper rush do before this year? they both right now been in similar offenses with similar qbs and Lamb is going catch to catch with AC..
lets stop the 100-game nonsense, odd how AC disappears so many games he needs 100-yard games to catch up, we call that being inconsistent and his $$ was big reason he got cut at the time we needed cap relief and did not need a 22 mil wr who is clearly not better then lamb.
Yes AC was solid starting wr but so is Lamb.. crazy how Lamb without all that help in ced , turner, jarwin, or AC and more importantly without DAK many of those games, still has the same production as AC at this point. 100 yard games don't mean much, so lamb has 75 per or a few 90 yarders, but in the end its overall production.
please stop the nonsense his $$$ was big reason, his inconsistency and lack of passion and drive was the other. its all led to his trade and now we will move on.. the raiders saw it, cowboys saw it, now hes gone.. not an indictment on his skillset, he simply no longer was a fit, mostly over $$$$.
