Look, I know. I get it. It’s hard to get too excited about a wide receiver that a 2-9 team was all like “Yeah, get on outta here ya rascal” when he asked for his release. It’s maybe even harder to get there when the receiver is on the wrong side of 30 and where Buffalo will be his sixth unique stop.

Wow, I’m really doing a bad job selling wide receiver Brandin Cooks to y’all. Let’s look at some film and give the guy a chance.

Over the middle

Despite being “football old,” there’s no shortage of clips where Brandin Cooks looks comfortable mixing it up over the middle of the field and taking some shots. On this 3rd & 9 play it’s true that New Orleans was getting blown out, but it’s also true it was still the first half and no one should be conceding things.

To show Cooks, I zoomed in, whi

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