Has Brandin Cooks cry for targets changed your opinion of him? (1 Viewer)

[nosaint]

You know it didn't at first. Then I saw Drew forcing him the ball against Detroit. Then my opinion changed.

 

[oldJC.SAINTS]

no

 

[RJ in Lafayette]

Before Sunday, no. Not sure now. If Cooks sulks again, we do have a problem. Every skilled player on offense has a role. But it works. Top offense, and each receiver will put up very good numbers at the end of the year. And Cooks had, and has, very good numbers for the year.

Cooks is not an All-Pro receiver. He is surprisingly not elusive in the open field. But he is a very good receiver who can make a Pro Bowl. Last receiver who complained was Graham, whose production diminished after leaving the Saints.

 

[EagleSaint]

Julio Jones had 1 catch for 13 yards earlier in the season. Did he whine, moan, and groan? Nope.

He's a team player, he does what he's told and waits for the ball to come his way. That's what gets you nods from your teammates, coaches, and other NFL players.

Cooks needs to realize Payton is an offensive genius and knows what he's doing.

Put Up or Shut Up Cooks.

 

[Icon]

Buncha 40 yr olds fussing at a 20 yr old for not acting like the ideal version of a 40 yr old..,
Well now ive just seen everything

After a decade of seeing how the likes of Colston, Meachem, Devery and Moore conducted themselves.........all of whom were either rookies under Payton or not far from it..........I don't know how out-of-line it is to expect Brandin Cooks.......in his THIRD season, mind you.....to conduct himself with unselfish professionalism.

If a person is griping on Instagram shortly after their team put up 49 points and won......then there is no way to sugarcoat that. None. No amount of follow-up explanations or "point clarifications" are going to change how it looks. And what it looks, is incredibly selfish. And it looks even worse when the very next week, the team loses. But hey, Cooksie got his targets, I guess .

 

[LiterOCola]

Nick Underhill has been tweeting examples all day about how Cooks was not being force fed the football at the expense of the rest of the offense. Here's the summary article:

Film study: Closer look at the early offensive woes and Brandin Cooks' day | Saints | theadvocate.com

and one of the relevant tweets:
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">I’m gonna tweet all of the passes thrown to Cooks so we can stop saying the Saints were forcing it to him at the detriment of the offense.</p>— Nick Underhill (@nick_underhill) <a href="https://twitter.com/nick_underhill/status/806021096361193472">December 6, 2016</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">First set of pictures. Read the notes on the one picture. <a href="https://t.co/cHNcWv5jE3">pic.twitter.com/cHNcWv5jE3</a></p>— Nick Underhill (@nick_underhill) <a href="https://twitter.com/nick_underhill/status/806021463723614208">December 6, 2016</a></blockquote>
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[NatureBoy]

He's a competitor. i'd rather him not speak out, but I understand.

 

[Le_fleur_fan_78]

Yup, it's a non issue. The guy has more will to win than most receivers. He also has the skill set to have defenses worrying about him every play. These things will work themselves out in due time.

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[DJ1BigTymer]

Nick Underhill has been tweeting examples all day about how Cooks was not being force fed the football at the expense of the rest of the offense. Here's the summary article:

Film study: Closer look at the early offensive woes and Brandin Cooks' day | Saints | theadvocate.com

and one of the relevant tweets:
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">I’m gonna tweet all of the passes thrown to Cooks so we can stop saying the Saints were forcing it to him at the detriment of the offense.</p>— Nick Underhill (@nick_underhill) <a href="https://twitter.com/nick_underhill/status/806021096361193472">December 6, 2016</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">First set of pictures. Read the notes on the one picture. <a href="https://t.co/cHNcWv5jE3">pic.twitter.com/cHNcWv5jE3</a></p>— Nick Underhill (@nick_underhill) <a href="https://twitter.com/nick_underhill/status/806021463723614208">December 6, 2016</a></blockquote>
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Not to pick this post, but it was one I responded to:

This isn't the first time that this happened. A few years ago Graham was force fed targets after some mild grousing the week before.

I was surprised and disappointed that Payton did that-- seemed very unParcells-like. I would have expected to hear, "The player needs to realize that this is a team sport."

Not surprising this time around, and I suspect that the Lions planned for the extra Cooks attention as well.

Except, they did not!!! The did the opposite of what the Rams tried to do. They baited us into taking the deeper route because they focused on the shorter routes. They dared Drew to throw it deep and when he tried, he failed.

 

[BoNcHiE]

I love how these narratives get started. You can read through this thread and it's now totally unquestioned conventional wisdom that Drew was forcing the ball to him.

Never mind that the facts do not support such an assertion, but this board always...ALWAYS has to have a player to throw under the bus. Every single time.

 

[BoNcHiE]

They dared Drew to throw it deep and when he tried, he failed.

Yeah, well except that deep pass Cooks caught.

Brees tried him deep one other time and it was as much him not leading enough inside as it was that Cooks was covered. He tries to throw that pass almost every single game. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. But he's always going to test a team deep at some point. Nothing special happened. It wasn't him suddenly forcing the ball to him.

 

[JackT.]

I love how these narratives get started. You can read through this thread and it's now totally unquestioned conventional wisdom that Drew was forcing the ball to him.

Never mind that the facts do not support such an assertion, but this board always...ALWAYS has to have a player to throw under the bus. Every single time.

 

[RaisingTheBar]

If all he wants is a big contract we should trade him before his contract expires.

 

[meily]

Brandon Cooks was crying? well what were people on SR.com doing after the game when they brought up the fact he had no catches in the game? then when he voices his displeasure he needs to be traded, he's not that good, Michael Thomas unseated him...all this after ONE game.

 

[dvdman]

Feel no different about him, he's an under utilized playmaker. The kid is very talented and if the Saints are stupid enough to trade him they will regret it as much as they have trading Darren Sproles.