the MVP of Super Bowl, 50 6. They may need to take care of
the guy who actually was the MVP
of Super Bowl. 50 6 Cooper cup
would like a contract that as he says it via the athletic
it has to quote, be something that makes sense for everyone.
And quote. I try to help where I can, I don't want to be in
the dark on this thing. I love this organization. I want to be
here for a very long time.
I want this to be something that makes sense for everyone.
I want them to feel good about it. And I think the best way
to do that is for me to at least be involved in some
capacity. It's never going to be at the cost of anything on
the football field, but more communication. The better. We
have a find a place where
we can all feel good. And that makes even more sense
after we consider
what we heard from Sean McVeigh.
It's a very pragmatic.
Let's figure this out. Let's not have this fall apart
because we have miscommunications or
misunderstandings. Let's sit down and do this. You want to
be here.
We Want you here,
we understand the value. They bring to the table.
We're not going to dick around. Sorry. We're going to get this
done. I was a new one.
Sorry, but we're going to get this done and, and sorry. And
that's, and that's what they did with Donald. So now
now I mean, at some point Cooper cops got to say, what
about me? Yeah. What about me? O'Dell got making fifteen point
seven. Five million per year. 18th among all receivers.
Yeah, that, that is something that
that needs. Be addressed by the LA Rams. And if you take just
like we said about Donald. Hey, they already took care of
Stafford when they're going
to take care of Donald. Well, now they take care of Stafford
and Donald. When are they going to take care of cup? Yeah, that
and a
great team. I know gotta find a way you got, you know, it says
F them picks on the front of the shirt. It says F that cap
on the back of the shirt. You got to figure out a way to make
it all work out of the cap. Yeah. You're right. Got to make
it work. I mean you got to think Cooper Cubs got to be
sitting there going.
Well, they gotta pay him north of 20 million. I mean, we know
that it's got, that's got to happen. Open. He's too awesome.
I mean one he's got a special connection with Matthew
Stafford. You see again?
Hey, it's another example of
support system and stuff like that matter.
Cooper cup. What did he look like this year? A different
receiver? Why? Because he had a quarterback that could throw
balls to him that he didn't have the the first part of his
career. So all of a sudden, we saw a different part of his
skill set to go.
Whoa. This guy can stretch the field and he can catch the ball
over the middle and outrun people for 30, 40 yards. Down
the middle of the field.
Yes. That's that's the Matthew Stafford effect. And then of
course, he has great effect on the offense overall because
he's the kind of can do it. All guy, McVeigh orchestrates. A
lot of the game plan passing wise around him, and then
Cooper, cuffs ability to read the coverages off of it
to where they're never wrong. Hey, if it's covered to go out
if it's cover one go in, and he's never wrong freely, so
that he's got a great value to the football team. Let alone
he's a great physical Talent.
And then again, I'm going to go back to something, we said
already and I don't think it can be quite like talked about
enough. We're in the NFL right now where we see we can go
through teams everywhere where it seems like communication is
lost a
little bit and we get to these situations and you know,
there's a separation and the wiping of Instagram and I'm not
going to come around OTAs. And that's again where I'll bring
it back to McVeigh. See they get ahead of these things. Like
you're talking.
About and they don't let it like the silence fester for too
long. They start to have the conversation. They address it
head-on like your you've discussed and
that makes the players less antsy
and then they're willing to wait, we're going to get it
done and they keep talking to me and everything. They're
saying makes sense, and they're being honest and all that. Hey,
I'll come to OTAs even though I don't have a new deal and
that's where the Rams are magical, and that's where to
me.
It's the McVeigh magic there
that the ability to keep all these guys. Is happy and
content through the communication like you've
discussed. It is very, very special. It really is.
The other reality though as they pay Matthew, Stafford, pay
air and Donald get ready. Presumably to pay Cooper Cup.
This underscores Our concern that you and I have had for
the ramps for a while and
it puts a greater premium on the ability of Les Snead and
Sean McVeigh and Company to hit on the later rounds of
the draft
because you get your roster too top-heavy from a salary
standpoint where you can't afford to have mid-level
players, who are
Our veterans who can step right in if someone's injured. You're
relying on youngsters. Yeah, to figure it out quickly to learn
it quickly to maybe grow just by osmosis from being around
all of these other great players and rising to
the level, but being ready to
go. You get, guys injured. There could be a big drop-off
in Talent from starter to back up because all your cap money
is going to jail and Ramsey and Aaron Donald and Matthew
Stafford. Effort. And now
Cooper cup and Jalen Rose. Am I missing?
I mentioned jail. I'm sorry. Allen Robinson.
They got. They got Bobby Wagner Bobby. Got her shop inside
Lenny. Floyd's being paid. Big money. Yeah, so you've got,
you've got to be able to trust your ability to find players in
the later rounds of the draft and a very cheap relatively
speaking salary.
And also undrafted players and maybe veterans who just fall
into your lap so that you get for a bargain like a no do
Beckham jr. Although they ended up having to
To pay him every penny of his incentives because they were
team-based and they won the Super Bowl, but still, that's
the blend. That's the mix. But you got to have the backups
who are good enough to play, because the injuries are going
to happen. When the injuries happen, what happens to your
team
and and that that
needs to be mentioned because they're getting even more
top-heavy there. Yeah. It's like they're building that
Jenga Tower. You know that Jenga Tower keeps getting
higher and higher and you're getting fewer and fewer blocks
at the foundation.
You got it. You got to be sure that those
Walks hold
because you're really stretching it more than you
should. You're taking some risks, your calculated risks,
that your roster is going to hold up.
If your stars, get injured. Yeah, it's the risk. And then
they've gotten away with it somehow some way. And again,
I think that again speaks to a little bit of the organization
and make vague and his ability to have the right pulse of how
to push guys.
The workout regimen.
Let's not practice that hard today. Let's lift, weights,
hard, and we'll just have A walkthrough. He's got a special
feel for that too.
And you're right. I mean, it's a dicey approach. It is, it's
risky. It's a calculated risk. Yeah, they lose Aaron Donald on
the defensive side of the ball.
Not only are they like, yeah,
there they don't have great depth behind it. And of course,
it's going to be a huge drop-off and talent and you can
kind of see that across the board. That's what makes them
Rams unique. The Rams are
the way the team is built. And then
the way they play, which is
not overly like All the time. Like oh my gosh. This is
the most creative schemes I've ever seen in my life. They got all
the things you need in football with a little splash of
creativity,
but then when it comes big games, they go. Okay. Hey,
we're going to be sound and we'll have a good game plan.
And then we expect those guys have we're paying 25 million
dollars a year. You guys make some stuff happen today. It's
star time.
It's the playoffs.
It's in December.
It's time to go that way and that's what kind of makes them
cool. But you know, to your point it's risky. It definitely
is two or three injuries from the
Alms could really affect their football team and in a way
that, you know, would affect them more than most teams in
football.