Cooper started it. I think the refs are now supposed to be emphatic about penalizing the initial blow in a fight. So Cooper, that glum soul, gets penalized 15 yards.
That play you're alluding to is exactly why I hate Cary Williams. Two hands full of jersey, not even bothering to find the ball, and somehow Edelman was at fault. Asinine.
It's not. Further, a lot of people forgot how Patriots TC went last year where our players were doing their best impressions of the UFC. But, if I were watching the fight, I would be rooting for Cooper. Not because I'm a red blooded Anglo-Saxon, but because I just hate Cary Williams as a whole.