Shifty know, he's being used when he reports these things
and every day's,
the Cowboys are likely to reduce or a release. Amari
Cooper. I you retweeted it. You know what it meant. It's a,
it's a very clumsy and thinly-veiled effort to try to
get trade offers for Amari Cooper
so they can Chef T to do it under the
unspoken or spoken guys. That you know, when they do some of
them are Cooper, they'll be sure to let won't let you know
first chef D and you know, whatever other We're going to
make will let you know, you're helping us out here,
fire up this trade market for Amari Cooper. Of course, that's
what they were doing and giving it to him. And he knows what
he's doing by being part of it. What they're trying to do is to
get someone to take them are Cooper's contract off
their hands, and if they can't find someone to do it,
they will cut him and that is not a surprise. For one very
important reason. When he signed that contract, two years
ago, five years, 100 million dollars.
It was a two-year 40 million dollar deal.
The guaranteed money is over. It's gone. He's got no
protection and he's not a 20 million dollar. Your guy. So
this may be as simple as.
Let's get the word out. There were looking to trade him
and let's also see if we can't find a trade offer,
what we're willing to pay him and let him
unofficially gauge the market through his agent to see what
else someone will pay him. Because maybe he just decides
to take whatever we're willing to offer him on a reduced
salary. That's a very possible outcome here, Mi, not a trade,
but Cooper, taking less to stay with the Cowboys
when his agent. Liza's. The Cowboys are willing to pay him
as much as anyone else will. So why leave why leave just accept
the pay cut so it may not be a precursor to a trade. May be
a precursor to going to him with an offer that he can't
refuse. Otherwise, he's going to be a free agent.
Right? And it's interesting too because this is a guy that you
know, was paid as the highest-paid receiver in
the league but didn't really put up those kinds of numbers and
I mean, he is really
middle of the pack just in terms of
what a receiver is
in. Like, you know, when it comes to
Action from last year into what you would want a guy that's
being paid as much, he's being paid
for that position. I mean, even if the Cowboys had won
the Super Bowl and Amari Cooper had gone off in the playoffs and
all these different things. I don't know that the Cowboys
would really want to pay him 20 million dollars
just for next season, especially when that is not
guaranteed. I mean, that's, that's basically what you're
saying in that when they sign that contract, it was two
years, 40 mil great. Now, he's earned that At so if
the Cowboys want to come back to him and
say look we'll give you x amount of money will guarantee
you some more salary. So you can stay here. You can be
a part of this offense. You can be productive and all that.
Like that's something that I can understand where Marty
Cooper might decide to
do it. But I mean, you're not wrong in that when these things
get leaked at this time of the year. It's really to see on
the off chance, you know where maybe there's some team with
cap space that really wants to say. Hey, we want Amari Cooper
that guy could really really help us.
Believe in him, he's about to turn 28. You should still be in
the prime of his career, even though we had like eight
hundred sixty five yards receiving last year like that.
It's a guy that we believe in and we think he's going to fit
our
system. The Cardinals did that last year with Rodney Hudson,
right? The Raiders put out a, we're going to get rid of them.
So, you know, we're going to release them. So if you want
them man, you know, and he's right there for the taking and
then the Cardinals having treated like a second or third
round pick form. So these things sometimes work. I don't
know if it's going to work in this case. Given what
the Salary, parameters are, but if somebody
wants to sign him and then restructure that contract. Once
he gets there, to give him a little bit more of a guarantee
in terms of pay and all that kind of thing. I could sort of
see that happening to,
he has another 20 million. It becomes fully guaranteed as
a March twenty. So that's the deadline for the Cowboys to do
something and it will not be a surprise. If they move on from
him. They are trying to keep some of the other guys. They
currently have obviously they're looking to build around
CD lamb,
but there has been some reporting that Michael Gallup
is closing in. On a contract to stick around and we kind of saw
this when they drafted CD lamb, that made it even more clear
than Mark. Cooper's not going to be there for more than two
years and look at it this way. They got one more year before
they have to pay CD Lambs. So
at the very most it would be one more year with Amari Cooper
on a restructured contract. But even then
I don't think he's going to be there. He would have to be
willing to take whatever they're willing to pay. I think
they focus on keeping gallop and Cedric Wilson and there
the rest of
their notable free agents as they head toward the the start
of the new league year miles and look everybody's got to
deal with this every year. You've got guys who are going
to become free agents question is, how much money do you want
to devote to the
guys? You have and how much money can you devote to guys?
You don't have, you know, every team is very ruthless when it
comes to looking at the roster and asking themselves. Do we
keep the guys we have, do we go sign, new guys, you ripped
the name off the back of the jersey and you make a decision
and Amari Cooper is finding himself. Smack dab in
the middle. All of that analysis models.
Yeah, he is. But Mike, you know, I still think that he can
go somewhere, he can be productive. I mean you look at
the reaction by everybody today. Once that Chef to report
comes out and it's like, whoa. Yeah, like this team should be
interested in this team should be interested
in. I mean, you know, I
have tweet deck setup. So I see all these got different beat
writers and whatnot. So we can, you know, can generate posts
off of that. And it's like, boy,
I think probably the majority of beat writers
on the internet. Today, we're like, yeah, this is probably
a guy that you might want to look at because he can probably fit
there for you.
So who knows what it's going to turn into. But I certainly
think that, if there's not a trade market for Amari Cooper,
then there's going to be a pretty robust market for his
Services because again, he's going to turn 28. He's not on
that wrong side of
30 that we always talk about. He still has some good prime
years left. So we'll see if he can get to another place that
fits him
and fit. You know, that re he fits the scheme and he can be
That kind of productive guy or if and eventually he just takes
a pay cut and stays with Alice.