So where is Amari Cooper?

[Beast]

These boards are tough.

[Drew21PA]

Was happy with Kincaid getting more involved 

[dave mcbride]

40 minutes ago, transplantbillsfan said:

 

Listen to Dan Orlovsky in the first few minutes of his interview on OBL.  He's basically confused by all the complaints about Cooper and talks about how much of an influence he had on our passing game without a single target... all because of his gravity from just being on the field.

 

The Orlovsky clip is the answer to all of these questions about Cooper.

[without a drought]

First game ever with no targets

 

https://www.si.com/nfl/bills/news/buffalo-bills-wr-amari-cooper-thinks-its-absolutely-amazing-he-wasnt-targeted-once-last-week

[SoonerBillsFan]

3 minutes ago, without a drought said:

First game ever with no targets

 

https://www.si.com/nfl/bills/news/buffalo-bills-wr-amari-cooper-thinks-its-absolutely-amazing-he-wasnt-targeted-once-last-week

And we still put up nearly 50.  He will get targets,but Josh is done force feeding a specific WR

[Blackbeard]

9 minutes ago, without a drought said:

First game ever with no targets

 

https://www.si.com/nfl/bills/news/buffalo-bills-wr-amari-cooper-thinks-its-absolutely-amazing-he-wasnt-targeted-once-last-week

Coop is a smart player.  I love this article.

 

The Bills offense is great.  Who's getting the ball?   Defenses just don't know who to double.  Who to look out for most.  Everyone eats.  Cooper gets it.

 

GO BILLS!
 

[Eastport bills]

With the offense operating at a prolific level, who cares where Cooper is. Josh is finding wide open RBs and TEs so defenses will have so much to think about and Coop and Coleman will probably get a bunch of single coverage going forward. With the threat of Josh taking off how do you defend this team?

[starrymessenger]

I get the point and it's a good one but Cooper can do a lot more than draw coverage. In what remains of the season I'd like to see Josh and Cooper develop more chemistry in advance of the playoffs. I noticed a couple of plays versus the Lions where Coop had cleanly beaten his man on the outside for what looked to be 6 points. On one occasion it seemed to me like Josh looked his way but wound up going to the opposite side of the field.

[Doc]

Good to see he knows his role in the offense and isn't upset at not getting the stats.

[Big Turk]

1 hour ago, Eastport bills said:

With the offense operating at a prolific level, who cares where Cooper is. Josh is finding wide open RBs and TEs so defenses will have so much to think about and Coop and Coleman will probably get a bunch of single coverage going forward. With the threat of Josh taking off how do you defend this team?

 

Detroit's weakness were it's LB's and the Bills relentlessly targeted them over and over against with RB's and TE's

[Ridgewaycynic2013]

🎵Buffalo needs you🎶

🎶Amari Cooper!🎵

🎵Amari, could you please 🎶

🎶Come home.🎵

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Wait a minute.  It's America needs Harry Truman. 🙁

[LABILLBACKER]

On 12/15/2024 at 6:32 PM, Dr.Sack said:

Keon and Amari were key in freeing up our real weapon Ty Johnson. 

...and they're happy to do it.  That's what makes this team so terrifying to opposing DC's going into the playoffs.  There's no 1 guy they can gameplan.  Anyone of 10 guys can burn you.

[Warriorspikes51]

Cooper for 150 and 2 TDs Sunday 

[DCofNC]

2 hours ago, Warriorspikes51 said:

Cooper for 150 and 2 TDs Sunday 

Would love to see it IF it’s organic, not if it’s Diggs 2.0.   I actually think they will actively try to focus on the outside guys this game, I see Coleman getting more, but mostly bc Coop will get the attention.

[Doc Brown]

8 hours ago, SoonerBillsFan said:

And we still put up nearly 50.  He will get targets,but Josh is done force feeding a specific WR

Diggs hate around is unreal.  His best year of his career in 2020 involved "force feeding" a specific WR.

[NickelCity]

Love the way Cooper phrases things. Interesting guy. 

[Sierra Foothills]

On 12/15/2024 at 7:22 PM, starrymessenger said:

Haven't yet seen chemistry develop between Allen and Cooper. Even the few times he has been targeted since he joined I don't think that Josh has made good throws to him. Cooper has shown good hands (on the ball that was lateraled to Josh for an TD) and excellent ball tracking ability. Hope the production is there after they have had a chance to work more together. You would reasonably expect that to happen. They are both vets and great players.

 

I object to this a bit. There was that Willie Mays play, and the one-handed catch for 30 yards against the Chiefs, and of course the historic throw-catch-lateral-catch, double TD play... and a few other plays, so I think they've shown some chemistry.

 

They just haven't had a lot of receptions yet but I'm hoping that they're keeping Cooper under wraps until a bit later and they still have 3 weeks to go before the playoffs even start so I'm hopeful.

 

On 12/15/2024 at 8:12 PM, Mango said:

Not just targets, I think his snap count was super low.

 

On 12/15/2024 at 9:47 PM, Bob Chandler's Hands said:

Saw him out there, but seemed to be less than half the snaps?

 

On 12/16/2024 at 5:14 AM, 4th&long said:

You answered your own question. The bills obviously liked the matchup up in man to man coverage of Ty Johnson on a lb. It worked. Also the te had a good game. Coleman only had one catch on a broken play. Shakir didn’t light it up. That was a team win.

I don’t think Hopkins has a catch either.

 

Yeah I was glad to see the Bills not try to over-rely on Shakir. He's a guy I'd like to see healthy for the playoffs.

 

On 12/16/2024 at 7:24 AM, The Wiz said:

46% of the snaps yesterday.  I honestly dont even remember seeing him on any particular play.

 

 

 

Thanks for posting this ^^^^^^^^^^^ 👍

 

42 minutes ago, NickelCity said:

Love the way Cooper phrases things. Interesting guy. 

 

Cooper has an interesting way of speaking. It really seems like he's thinking as he's talking. He seems pretty smart and pretty deep to me.

[Scott7975]

9 hours ago, without a drought said:

First game ever with no targets

 

https://www.si.com/nfl/bills/news/buffalo-bills-wr-amari-cooper-thinks-its-absolutely-amazing-he-wasnt-targeted-once-last-week

 

What? No outburst on the sideline telling the QB "dont listen to him then."  Please re-sign this guy next season. Surely they can find a one year deal that fits.

[Scott7975]

1 hour ago, Doc Brown said:

Diggs hate around is unreal.  His best year of his career in 2020 involved "force feeding" a specific WR.

Cole Beasley, John Brown, Gabe Davis rookie season. No Josh was not force feeding Diggs. It was probably Josh's best year for having weapons. Defenses also were new to the big passing game back then and were still trying to figure it out.  This is not a knock on Diggs, but lets not stretch the truth.

 

 

 

To the thread:

I'm gonna give my take on Cooper. The "everybody eats" mantra is still there. It's just easier now that we have guys in every position that can make a defense pay. It was never about just spreading the ball around because we had no star. It was always about being able to throw to the weak part of coverage and actually game plan for that. Week to week this will change depending on what the defense is bad at. Thats "everybody eats."

Edited December 21 by Scott7975

[jayg]

I saw him hanging around this guy...