Cooks traded to Rams for 23 overall pick

[Brady6]

Throwing this out there.

Detroit has ex Patriots in the right spots GM Quinn and HC Patricia...

Hey guys, how about releasing Megatron from his contract for a pick

Now thats full on Madden mode right there for yer!

He will be 33 in September and hasn’t played in 2 years.

 

[Jackson 2]

I'm ok with this trade because I think getting a 23 for Cooks, along with a good season from him, is very good value. I thought he, by and large, was a fine player who was also a good guy. My opinion of his performance this past year is higher than a lot of other people's opinions.

 

[luuked]

We traded a QB at mid season who was not under contract the follow year. How much do you think a team would be willing to give up? Keep in mind the 49ers had give Garoppolo a record contract on top of giving us a top 50 pick.

And, again, at the point of the trade JG had not even two full games on tape. If JG had stayed healthy for all 4 games and continued to ball out like that he would have already provided a bigger return.

 

[luuked]

Throwing this out there.

Detroit has ex Patriots in the right spots GM Quinn and HC Patricia...

Hey guys, how about releasing Megatron from his contract for a pick

Now thats full on Madden mode right there for yer!

He has said multiple times that he doesn't want to play football anymore. I don't know how he can make it any more clear than that. Money won't entice him to unretire and damage his body even more.. he has all the money in the world and got out of it seemingly ok except for ****ed up fingers and ankle issues.

So I didn’t just wake up one morning and decide, You know what? I’m going to retire today.

I contemplated it for over a year.

There were days when I was elated because I was breaking records and making my family, friends and fans proud. But the more I played … even that pride couldn’t outweigh the pain I felt while shuffling my feet across the floor because I couldn’t bend my ankles. I didn’t want to worry about potentially being in too much pain to play with my son, you know?

And that’s not all. My fingers are all kinds of jacked up. My job was to play receiver. I got paid to catch the ball. But there was a point when every time the ball hit my fingers, they ached.

There were other aches and pains and things I don’t need to go into, but eventually, my body said to me, “I’m done.’

And I listened.

In Retirement | By Calvin Johnson

 

[PP2]

We tried to extend Cooks before trading him.

You can bet BB made sure this particular bit of information leaked out to remind agents that if they try to price their clients out of the market, it's bye-bye.

 

[primetime]

They are unbelievably similar in terms of measurables.

Phillip Dorsett | Miami (FL), WR : 2015 NFL Draft Scout Player Profile

*Brandin Cooks | Oregon State, WR : 2014 NFL Draft Scout Player Profile

That's an odd rebuttal to the claim that Dorsett hasn't proven anything.

I like Dorsett, I think he has talent, he's only 25, and he showed the ability to be more than just a vertical player last year. He got separation and a year in camp will do him a world of good. But he's nothing more than a dart throw.

 

[Brady6]

That's an odd rebuttal to the claim that Dorsett hasn't proven anything.

I like Dorsett, I think he has talent, hes only 25, and he showed the ability to be more than just a vertical player last year. He got separation and a year in camp will do him a world of good. But it's a dart throw.

I wasn’t rebutting it I was just pointing out that they are very similar.

The way I look at it is Cooks likely would not have had a thousand yard season if Edelman was healthy because he would not have received as many short and intermediate opportunities. So with Edelman back, a healthy Hogan and Malcolm Mitchell all we need is Dorsett to fill the role of stretching the field.

 

[Soliel]

He fell for the Hollywood bs

 

[aluminum seats]

Also, Welker tore his ACL in the final regular season game and had 8 months to recover before the start of the following season. Edelman will have had a full year to recover.

He's also 32 next month. I think @ivanvamp being SHOCKED if he's not back to how he was is a little optimistic.

 

[Teej]

Rams were FLEECED.

 

[Nehalem]

Yeah, his 1,122 yards from scrimmage and 7 TDs was pretty mediocre. And, catching 6 of 8 for 100 yds in the AFCCG was pretty awful.

Cooks was an odd player. His production through the first 11 games was #1 WR worthy.

He then had 6 games in a row(including divisional round) where he looked terrible. And his poor production are even inflated by some garbage time catches against Miami and NYJ

He then had a great game against Jacksonville, where we almost certainly don't win without him.

He then followed that up by embarrassing himself in the SB.

 

[Bill Lee]

Philly had studs all over their defensive line and barely touched Brady.

... except when it really mattered ...

 

[maineman209]

He's also 32 next month. I think @ivanvamp being SHOCKED if he's not back to how he was is a little optimistic.

Welker's post injury season production was roughly 67% of his previous 3-year average. Applying the same to Edelman yields about 65 catches for about 750 yards. Not awful.

I'd be pleasantly surprised if he contributed significantly more than that, but I would be kinda shocked if he's significantly less.

 

[RobertWeathers]

They are unbelievably similar in terms of measurables.

Phillip Dorsett | Miami (FL), WR : 2015 NFL Draft Scout Player Profile

*Brandin Cooks | Oregon State, WR : 2014 NFL Draft Scout Player Profile

Agree. But any similarities end there.

 

[FreeTedWilliams]

Cooks tried his heart out in the SB to make a big play and wound up with a concussion for his efforts. That being said, getting the 23rd pick in the draft for a WR in his option year of his rookie deal is a deal that is too good to pass up.

I can only hope BB takes this pick and comes out of the draft with another Jones-Hightower first round. The Pats now have three of the top 43 picks and five in the first three rounds.

 

[patsinthesnow]

 

[maineman209]

Cooks was an odd player. His production through the first 11 games was #1 WR worthy.

He then had 6 games in a row(including divisional round) where he looked terrible. And his poor production are even inflated by some garbage time catches against Miami and NYJ

He then had a great game against Jacksonville, where we almost certainly don't win without him.

He then followed that up by embarrassing himself in the SB.

It might be worth considering that Cooks' dropoff in production coincided with Brady's Achilles "thing" and Hogan's absence. White and Burkhead were both out for the last two games of that stretch, plus Gronk missed one of those six games and wasn't targeted at all in another (the season finale v. the Jets, IIRC).

 

[RobertWeathers]

As much of a fan of Cooks I am I don't think he's wrong

 

[Big Bucks]

Also racked up like 70 some yards or more in the 2 big PI calls that game. I think we lose that game without him

Well, we would probably lose them with him anyway because the PI rules have changed have they not!

 

[primetime]

I'm not sure he's a great fit in Los Angeles, either. They used Sammy Watkins as a super decoy because Goff doesn't have the arm to go vertical on a regular basis, and then they let Watkins walk and picked up Cooks for the same role. It's a lot of resources to expend for a role your quarterback can't exploit reliably. I think Cooks is probably better than Watkins, if only because the latter is always hurt, but Watkins is built and plays like a more traditional WR1.