Dallas Cowboys Trade Wide Receiver Amari Cooper To New Orleans Saints

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The Cowboys continue their offensive clean up by trading Amari Cooper to the New Orleans Saints for wideout Dez Bryant. The Dallas Cowboys, even with their record below .500, took their shot at the NFC East title when they traded a first-round draft pick to the Oakland Raiders for wide receiver Amari Cooper. It seemed to make sense at the time. The Cowboys desperately needed a No. 1 wideout, and the division race was wide open, with the first-place Washington Redskins looking less than overpowering and the Philadelphia Eagles sorting through issues.

But it doesn’t matter how wide open the division race is if you’re not winning.

Cooper made his debut for the Cowboys in Monday night’s game at home against the Tennessee Titans. He had some decent moments, giving the Cowboys an early lead with a first-quarter touchdown catch. But it wasn’t enough. Not even close. The Dallas offense continued to sputter badly. And the Cowboys reached the midway point of their season in a desperate state after losing to the Titans, 28-14.

“Really disappointing,” Cowboys owner Jerry Jones told reporters after the game. “We certainly didn’t see this coming.”

The Cowboys (3-5) are two games behind the Redskins and a game in back of the Eagles. That’s not so daunting.

But the Cowboys aren’t playing well, as their record suggests. They’ve lost two straight and three of four games. They fell to the Redskins at FedEx Field just before their bye week, and just before completing the Cooper trade. With the bye week to rest and prepare, with time to work Cooper into the offense, they delivered a clunker Monday.

“It’s really not good enough,” Coach Jason Garrett said at his postgame news conference. “We had some early opportunities that we didn’t cash in on…. Ultimately they did more to win the game than we did.”

The biggest issues are on offense.

Prescott has become a turnover-prone quarterback, which was not the case during his superb rookie season in 2016 when he and tailback Ezekiel Elliott led the Cowboys to the top seed in the NFC playoffs. But Prescott, Elliott and the Cowboys have not recaptured that magic from their rookie year, when their postseason ended with a loss at home to the Green Bay Packers but the future nevertheless seemed so promising.

Last season came undone when Elliott missed six games while serving his suspension under the NFL’s personal conduct policy, delayed for half the season as he and the NFL Players Association fought the penalty in court. This year, the Cowboys figured having Elliott back in the lineup for a full season would lead to success. It hasn’t. Tight end Jason Witten retired to ESPN’s “Monday Night Football” broadcast booth. Prescott has not been able to get the passing game revved up. Cooper finished with five catches for 58 yards. It wasn’t a bad debut but the Cowboys will need more for giving up a first-round draft choice for Amari Cooper to seem justified.

Well fast forward just two days later. Dez Bryant is back in the NFL, and after joining one of the league's top Super Bowl contenders and agreeing to a one-year deal with the New Orleans Saints, he was immediately traded for wideout Amari Cooper, a source confirmed to ESPN's Adam Schefter on Wednesday.

Bryant, who turned 30 on Sunday, had been on the open market since he was released by Dallas in April, when he was due to receive $12.5 million.

The 6-foot-2, 220-pounder was among the NFL's best in his prime. He recorded three straight seasons of at least 1,200 yards and 12 touchdowns from 2012 to 2014, and he earned Pro Bowl invites in 2013, 2014 and 2016.

The Dallas Cowboys hope they can reclaim that magic.

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