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Maybe he jumped because he was trying to get his 'Alvin Kamara' on. :scratch:
 
ELLIASJWILLIAMS said:
I like Brandin too but the play he got hurt on should make it clear to everyone why he never became the all around threat we thought we traded up to draft.

He lacks field awareness and vision for whats going on around him. He has to know based on coverage there would be a defender in pursuit from that side. Thats why he lost punt return duties and that's why he was never effective on screens.

Last time, he cannot navigate traffic if he isn't running away from people. It's not going to improve either...that's something you either have or you don't.

Thomas has it, Kamara has it, Ginn has it and in an offense that is now more WC oriented that was going to be important - receivers that can make things happen after the catch. That was never Cooks while he was here, and isn't going to be a part of his game in the future either.
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Good stuff as always EJW

I do think the trade was a really good one for both teams. We got Ram and a 3rd rounder (BTW: who did we pick with that 3rd?) and the Pats got a true vertical threat which opened up Gronk more. Good for both teams.
 
I wish him good health, but that play where he ran in a complete circle was one of the strangest things I've ever seen a player do. Felt like he was being controlled by someone goofing off while playing Madden.
 
Brandin Cooks trade

In addition to the #32 pick used to draft Ryan Ramczyk, the Saints received the #103 pick used to draft Trey Hendrickson from the Patriots for Brandin Cooks.
 
Meachemdat said:
Why in god's name would he try to leap over him. That's all I could think after watching this live.
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Deer

in

the

headlights.

All BC was seeing was that ONE SINGLE DEFENDER and nothing else.

There was NO attempt to scan the field and develop options to evade.

Same thing happened with the Jenkins Cream-ation of him:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSlhhheVzEs

Stop the film at the 0:42 mark to see the full-on Deer in the Headlight behavior!
 
VPCajun said:
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Deer

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All BC was seeing was that ONE SINGLE DEFENDER and nothing else.

There was NO attempt to scan the field and develop options to evade.

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It's because it's the only defender that mattered. Problem is, looking at him he never noticed he had a defender, on his heels, 1 yard in front of the first down. If he just runs at him, makes one cut and puts his head down he gets the first down by 2-3 yards at least. The only thing he couldn't do in this situation was run sideways or try to hurdle the guy.
 

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I dont like Cooks - mostly because of his entitled attitude - he acts as if he is a WR1 but cant really back it up on the field. See closed mouths dont get fed tweet. MT was obviously a better WR than him and rather than doubling his effort on the field he sulked and complained in public

Therefore I do not wish him well

He is a decent to good player. I dont watch enough Patriot games to give an educat3c assessment, but he seems to be a one trick pony. He’s blazingly fast, and will force defenses to cater for that. My guess is that if you take away that speed with age, or take away Brady, and he will be an average WR.

But anyways, i do not wish him ill. I hope he recovers. But I also do not wish him well
 
I like Brandin Cooks as well. He had enough value for us to land this stud. It doesn't say it in the article, but Ramczyk also played every offensive snap this season.

21. RYAN RAMCZYK, T, NEW ORLEANS SAINTS – 82.4 OVERALL GRADE
PFF Elite Stat: Ramczyk sports a 96.4 pass blocking efficiency, good enough for 13th in the league.

One of the rookies of the year, Ryan Ramczyk has been excellent for the dominant New Orleans offensive line since stepping in at right tackle. The better side of his game has been run blocking, where that Saints’ line has been able to generate movement at the point of attack like no other unit in the league, but even as a pass blocker, he has surrendered just 21 total pressures all year, and been flagged five times.
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https://www.profootballfocus.com/news/pro-top-25-offensive-linemen-of-the-2017-nfl-season
 
That play he got knocked out was exactly what was wrong with Cooks. It's so weird. But he's a classic example of a guy who is faster than he is quick. That weird rounded way he ran around...I look at The Unguardable and he just sticks a foot in the ground, cuts once and makes the man in front of him miss and fights for more yardage before being brought down.

By the time Jenkins hit him, he was still like 3 yards closer to the LOS than where he caught the ball. At that stage, Cooks should've just Marvin Harrison'd to the ground.
 
I think he has been hit hard one too many times and is afraid of contact, he tries to avoid contact once he catches the ball, he freezes and looses his natural ability to get what he should be able to gain. I felt this when he was here with us ,when he would run out of bounds too much instead of getting 2-4 more yards and taking a hit from a DB. It showed again in the SB, trying to avoid contact at all cost.
 
He had speed, didn't catch well in traffic, no field awareness, small catch radius, no height for red zone use. He did have speed.
 

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