Amari Cooper takes a sucker punch from Jerry Jones

The Cleveland Browns landed Amari Cooper in a trade with the Dallas Cowboys and suddenly, the owner in Big D is throwing some wild swings around

Jerry Jones is always right. If you don’t think that’s true, simply ask Jerry Jones.

The Dallas Cowboys owner is a mastermind at spinning words and trying to paint himself in a bright color. In his latest attempt to do this, he happened to throw Amari Cooper under the bus.

When speaking with the press, Jones said the reason Cooper was traded to the Cleveland Browns was due to his lack of availability at times.

Jones also said he moved on from Randy Gregory and La’el Collins for the same reason, but that’s about as true as his claim about Cooper. Sure, Collins was suspended in 2021, which factored into it some, but Jones hasn’t let suspensions stop him in the past — see the history with Gregory.

As for Gregory, Jones wanted to retain him but that was messed up when there was a late change to some of the language in the deal they had agreed to. Then, he was apparently “livid” that someone other than him did such a thing — funny how much control he says he has over the team until something odd happens, then there are so many other decisions makers.

So to recap, Jones was patient with Gregory when suspended, but not Collins. He also was “livid” over losing Gregory but now says he was basically let go due to being unavailable. Confused yet?

The sucker punch to Amari Cooper makes no sense

Back to Cooper.

Jones and his son made it clear during the offseason that Cooper could be moved due to salary cap reasons. The real problem was they overpaid a running back but they decided to blame Cooper instead.

Now that he’s gone, the narrative has flipped and he was suddenly an unreliable player. This makes no sense at all since Cooper missed a grand total of two games out of a possible 43. No one in their right mind would let a Pro Bowl player go for missing less than five percent of the games during his tenure with the team — especially when the only misses came due to Cooper testing positive for COVID.

Plus, it’s not as if Cooper had a problem before Dallas since he missed just two games as a member of the Oakland Raiders.

Throw in the fact that Jones has been patient with Tyron Smith who has not played a full season since 2015 and missed 20 games in the past two seasons, and it makes it look even more like Jones is making a terrible ‚— and unfounded — excuse.

Jones is clearly a brilliant person to have become a billionaire as well as the owner of the most visible team in the NFL. However, claiming to give up a star player simply because he missed time due to COVID sounds far less intelligent than saying you’re trying to save some money.