I had to make sure this wasn't The Onion's twitter account

[Ellsworth]

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com...-riley-cooper/

[Melchior]

He averaged 17.8 yards per catch in the first year of Chip Kelly’s offense, and Cooper had a career high of 5.4 in the all-important (in Kelly’s offense) of average yards per catch.

Florio is blowing my goddamned mind.

[Sect 236]

It's not surprising. If you look at his size and his stats from the outside, some team that needs WR help will overpay.

I'd like to see him back, but not at a big contract, which someone just might offer.

[Greenstealth]

It's not surprising. If you look at his size and his stats from the outside, some team that needs WR help will overpay.

I'd like to see him back, but not at a big contract, which someone just might offer.

I don't think Cooper is going to get any eye popping offers. I base that off the coming draft that is loaded at wr. I think if the Eagles want to keep him he will be there at reasonable price. I could see new England trying to scoop him, just a guess.

[Ground_Meat]

I don't expect both Maclin and Cooper back. I think they will draft a WR in the first 3 rounds. Who knows...

[Eagle Road]

I hope they can keep him, main reason. I want to see what him, Foles, and the rest of this O can do with a full year under their belt, I just don't want to see a major shakeup in the backfield, there are more urgent moves needed.

[art vandelay]

i'll be surprised if any team perceives his value to them as being equal to his value to the eagles. i don't think he would perform the way he did from the tampa game onward anywhere else, especially without his BFF under center. if he's commanding decent money, let him walk and sign maclin. i also love the possibility of signing jimmy graham and cutting celek without losing money. jackson, maclin, graham, and ertz as the top 4 targets would be awesome.

[Melchior]

Obviously Graham would be amazing, but with this offense being so run-based, I can't imagine them ditching Celek (who's probably one of the best run-blocking TEs) and breaking the bank on Graham.

Those 4 targets would be insane, though, no doubt.

[Maniac]

signing cooper to a 15-20M contract would be flushing money down the drain. can easily be replaced by a fourth rounder at 1/10 the cost.

Most of Riley Cooper’s production came from three games, against bad teams in the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Oakland Raiders and a really bad defense in the Green Bay Packers. Riley Cooper is a nice deep threat. His size helps him go over the top of defenders, but he consistently struggled to get open on press man coverage. Many of the Eagles sacks were because no one was open. He would disappear for most of the game and was really a non factor in the passing game when he wasn’t open deep. If the Eagles had someone who could’ve consistently moved the chains, the Eagles offense would’ve been even more dangerous. Cooper is likely to demand 4-5 million dollars a year. Is it worth it to pay a guy who really is a one trick pony?

http://insidetheiggles.com/2014/02/1...-riley-cooper/

[Dan Drives a Van]

Florio is blowing my goddamned mind.

At this point, anytime I read anything by Florio I'm looking for an agenda. I gotta think he's doing a solid to Cooper's agent for some past, present or future information.

I just typed "Riley Cooper" into the search terms on PFT. The first hit was the post you're referring to. The second hit was entitled "It'll be a buyer's market for free-agent receivers." It's buyer's market but somehow a racially divisive WR with one good year in a system that produced career years all across the board is going to "riding on a large pile of cash"?

Florio is a hack. Everything he writes at this point is either shit-stirring BS, agenda-driven editorial, or clear back-scratching puff pieces.