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Originally Posted by Flabbibulin
So much talk about Brandin Cooks leading into the season. Slow start or were the predictions just wrong?
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It's more to do with the O in general being a complete mess, than anything Cooks is or isn't doing. He had two nice, athletic catches in traffic on that final drive of the game. The OL got destroyed, RT Zach Strief had as bad a game as I've ever seen him play. They can't establish the run at all right now, and Brees has been running for his life, he's gonna get killed this year. They haven't been able to establish the deep pass partly because of it, which was a problem last year as well.
Brees actually may have hurt his throwing shoulder diving on a fumble today. He stayed in the game, but his throws were extra wobbly and weak afterwards, on Twitter lots of Saints media were wondering if he was hurt. On one play Cooks was wide open deep for a sure TD, but Brees threw a duck well short that ended up being picked off.
You can see the electrifying talent in Cooks (I still don't know how he managed to get out of bounds in the dying seconds of the game to stop the clock and give Brees another shot, there were 3 Bucs between him and the sideline). He's just unfortunately got a bad offence around him right now.
