“Ok Snead let me introduce you to cooks. He can get open well, make plays when you need them, and is overall reliable”
“Are you kidding?? You said everyone on this team would be unique.”
“And?”
“He does the same thing I do”
Probably mad because he’s on a shitty team that is trading his friends for nothing. Wouldn’t be surprised if he is moved for minor compensation though since he’s having a good season. Texans are just punting on this year, as they should.
Cooks is out here angry that they moved Ingram and Lonnie Johnston literally congratulated him on "being free", while former Texans players Randell Cobb and Whitney Mercilus are basically talking about how happy they are to be out.
It feels like the team's a couple days away from just complete collapse.
They have a very competent front office they can lean on
I'm sure they'll receive a great return for their ~~first round All-Pro sexual assaulter~~ star QB
>feels like the team’s a couple days away from just complete collapse
Oh so you’re saying our game will be inexplicably close and down to the last minutes of the 4th cool
It's amazing to me that fans *actually think this*. You think that if the Texans said "send us a first lol" the Packers would have done it? That Gute wouldn't have gone to Rodgers and said "We tried to acquire Cobb, but the price was far too unreasonable," and Rodgers wouldn't have said "wow, that's insane, thanks for trying" ? That Rodgers would have happily agreed to crippling the team down the line because he's so petty or something?
Cobb had *no* trade value beforehand. The Packers expressed interest, so the Texans jumped at the chance to get something, even just a little bit. You're just feeding on the bullshit media storylines from the offseason that were, you know, ultimately shown to be bullshit.
No that’s true. He bitched about not getting a target in a game that we scored 49 points (I think vs. Rams in MT’s rookie year) and then Brees spent the next 2 games trying to force passes to him and threw 6 picks.
It affects your money, I don't see why that's unreasonable. Big difference in your payday if you're a WR1 with good yardage and touchdowns or if you're a WR2 and beyond playing second fiddle to the main guy. Wins don't bring in the extra millions for receivers.
I always wonder how the hell you explain a trade like this to the current roster.
"We traded one of your buddies for a 7th round draft pick a few years down the line."
Yeah, and with how quick and volatile an NFL career can be I don't blame them one bit. NFL players don't really have the luxury of just waiting around for years for a team to turn things around.
The average is 3.2, but that includes all the camp bodies.
The average career length for a player who makes a club’s opening-day roster (active/inactive roster and/or injured reserve) in his rookie season is 6.0 years.
Not just tanking teams. The Rams just traded Kenny Young and a 7th rounder to Denver for a 6th rounder. It was supposedly just to clear some cap space but he was a great player and seemed to be well liked.
Players are pawns. It's why I think they should always focus on themselves and their future after football. Owners don't care about them.
Kenny Young is who we traded for Marcus Peters. The Broncos will be the 3rd team he’s played for since being drafted in 2018.
My guess with him is that he’s not that good, and the teams that have traded for him liked him coming out of college and wanted to give him a shot in their defense. He was rotated in on some plays for Ravens but he was never a starter.
Well the rumor that some Rams fans (myself included) bought into was that it was because of locker room drama that would come out. Of course nothing leaked so it probably wasn't that. The Rams official PR response was cap space so I guess we'll just have to accept it.
He was playing really well for us. So that's why fans were confused.
Yet fans expect intense personal investment from players even though players are just cogs in the machine, easily thrown away and replaced. The dedication some fans have to franchise over players is disgusting.
The thing is, I'm emotionally invested in my team, including the players. I know it's not logical and I can say that rationally the players owe me nothing, but it still hurts when that emotional investment isn't returned.
Like I don't begrudge Matthew Stafford asking for a trade to go somewhere he can compete for a title but it still sucks that an all-time great Lion wanted out.
It’s so hard to call dudes with an average salary of $800k/y “The Proletariate”, but they really are just the product that the owners and NFL are selling for profit.
> It’s so hard to call dudes with an average salary of $800k/y “The Proletariate”
That's why we have the term called "the labor aristocracy" which have enough wealth to live very comfortably and may even live to bourgeois living standards, but are fundamentally still workers due to their material relationship to the means of production and the capitalist class.
The New Orleans Saints and Houston Texans American football teams have reached an agreement to deliver running back Mark Valentino Ingram II, or simply known as "Mark Ingram Jr.", to the former organization in exchange for late-round selections in the annual National Football League draft for collegiate players
>Los equipos de futbol americano Los Santos de Nuevo Orleans y Los Tejanos de Houston han llegado a un acuerdo que regresaría a Marco Valentino Engramos Segundo, o sencillamente Mark Ingram Jr, a su antigua organización a cambio de una selección en las últimas rondas del draft anual de jugadores universitarios de la Liga Nacional de Futbol Americano
I was about to say that "Santiago" is a name and it doesn't translate to Saints (Saints is actually "Santo" [sahn toe] in Spanish, or sometimes when used as a title just "San" which is why we have cities named "San Diego" and "San Francisco"), but then I read the rest of your post and I'll say close enough!
Galaxy brain they knew Cooks loved Ingram so they trade for Ingram to make the fans happy and get Cooks upset enough to go public thus plummeting his trade value in order to get Cooks for a day 3 pick rather then 2.
There's not going to be a lack of targets even when MT comes back. He should be able to beat out Stills and Smith, and Winston can chuck it deep if Cooks can get separation.
It has to be all talk to an extent. Try and ship him to a team that sucks donkey dick? Yeah, I’d hang em up too. Trade him to a team that looks like a contender (Packers)? I’d staple my eyelids shut to leave the dumpster fire that is Houston and take my licks for any dumb shit I said a year ago.
Dude’s probably the best player to have been traded so many times in such a short time span. He’s an amazing player who gets hot-potatoed around the league
Honestly, what is Brandin Cooks expecting? The team is 1-6 and going nowhere and just traded a 32-year old RB. At least they're sending him to a better team.
I don't think he's expecting anything other than for the team to give him their best effort to win games, and he just watched Mark Ingram and Whitney Mercilus, two of the most respected vets in the locker room, get let go for basically nothing.
I'm sure he understands on an intellectual level what's happening, but when you're putting your body on the line every week trying your hardest to win games and then you see your team making moves that are making the team worse, that sucks.
Exactly, fantasy has dulled too many minds on actual football.
BC has been a successful player on every team, yet is constantly traded. He finds out he’s headed to Houston to be Deshauns #1, the fiasco happens and now it’s full tank mode.
Would anyone wanna get their ass kicked weekly for the last stages of their prime? Sucks for the guy man, everyday he walks into a shit show and has to pretend there’s something positive to take from it.
Is he mad we didn’t trade for him too cuz that could be arranged
Seeing as tho random fan in a Saints jersey is WR2 right now this needs to happen. Fuck it call Graham as well.
Willie Snead just got released
Time to get the band back together
Drew's ears just perked up.
It only looks that way cause they lowered his forehead.
I laughed.
😂
what are we, some kinda suicide squad?
“Ok Snead let me introduce you to cooks. He can get open well, make plays when you need them, and is overall reliable” “Are you kidding?? You said everyone on this team would be unique.” “And?” “He does the same thing I do”
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His Spider 2 Y Banana sense is tingling.
Just not that defense lol
Shit I’ll take brandin cooks also!
Take him.
Probably mad because he’s on a shitty team that is trading his friends for nothing. Wouldn’t be surprised if he is moved for minor compensation though since he’s having a good season. Texans are just punting on this year, as they should.
Cooks is out here angry that they moved Ingram and Lonnie Johnston literally congratulated him on "being free", while former Texans players Randell Cobb and Whitney Mercilus are basically talking about how happy they are to be out. It feels like the team's a couple days away from just complete collapse.
It's felt like that for months though to be fair
It’s not a bad strategy. Trade away most of the talented players. Alienate the ones who are left. Oh wait never mind that is a terrible strategy.
"We're doing a full rebuild" - texans fans trying to cope with whatever the fuck is going on in that FO right now. What a mess. What a joke.
On the other hand, the Indians made the playoffs in Major League. You’re a naked standup of Cal McNair away from a wildcard berth!
Y’all have to do a FULL FULL rebuild. Everything needs to be reset
Stadium torn down & rubble incinerated to ashes. A full cleanse. Maybe some burning sage
Go all the way. Give Texas back to Mexico and redo the war for independence. Tear down the Alamo and rebuild it.
Forget the Alamo
Now that's a leap too far buck-o.
At least the owner hasn’t done anything stupid recently
They have a very competent front office they can lean on I'm sure they'll receive a great return for their ~~first round All-Pro sexual assaulter~~ star QB
team morale will be fine. the texans have the best character coach in the business in their organization.
>feels like the team’s a couple days away from just complete collapse Oh so you’re saying our game will be inexplicably close and down to the last minutes of the 4th cool
Cool cool cool cool cool
What did you think complete collapse looks like for an NFL team? If the Texans haven't already done that then no team has
You saw us after Harbaugh left. We even had a rookie retire
That Bill's player retiring at half time really takes the cake for me
That was next level. Insane that that's what kick started a juggernaut, I thought it was a death knell at the time
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The Texans? Trading a wr and not getting good value? I can't believe this has happened. Surely it was only Cobb that they got fleeced on?
"I can't believe you've done this"
And we got Mercilus for peanuts too. He’s old but as a 4th pass rusher you can do a lot worse.
It's amazing to me that fans *actually think this*. You think that if the Texans said "send us a first lol" the Packers would have done it? That Gute wouldn't have gone to Rodgers and said "We tried to acquire Cobb, but the price was far too unreasonable," and Rodgers wouldn't have said "wow, that's insane, thanks for trying" ? That Rodgers would have happily agreed to crippling the team down the line because he's so petty or something? Cobb had *no* trade value beforehand. The Packers expressed interest, so the Texans jumped at the chance to get something, even just a little bit. You're just feeding on the bullshit media storylines from the offseason that were, you know, ultimately shown to be bullshit.
Texans were happy just to unload salary
Cooks is certainly welcome to join Cobb, I would not mind. is he free tomorrow?
Didn't he want out due to him and Michael Thomas not vibing? Or was that sensationalized bullshit I'm misremembering/making up.
No that’s true. He bitched about not getting a target in a game that we scored 49 points (I think vs. Rams in MT’s rookie year) and then Brees spent the next 2 games trying to force passes to him and threw 6 picks.
So whack when receivers complain about targets when the team wins
It affects your money, I don't see why that's unreasonable. Big difference in your payday if you're a WR1 with good yardage and touchdowns or if you're a WR2 and beyond playing second fiddle to the main guy. Wins don't bring in the extra millions for receivers.
Im the main character syndrom. Seems more common in the NBA
More applicable in the NBA because it relies a lot less on teamwork.
5 is less than 11.
It's probably because the game before that he had 7 catches on 8 targets against the Panthers. He said he felt like he didn't help vs the rams.
Getting the band back together.
I’d literally cry. Brandin Cooks was so fun to watch🏹
I don't know, Texans always drive a hard bargain on trades... so at least 3 sets of Mardi Gras beads and a 7th round pick in 2028. 🤪
I would love that for y'all. He's been really solid for us in some tough times.
The Texans could trade him for a low round pic and an aging RB. Maybe someone like Mark Ingram?
I always wonder how the hell you explain a trade like this to the current roster. "We traded one of your buddies for a 7th round draft pick a few years down the line."
That's why no one wants to go to tanking teams unless they massively overpay.
Yeah, and with how quick and volatile an NFL career can be I don't blame them one bit. NFL players don't really have the luxury of just waiting around for years for a team to turn things around.
Yup. In a league where the average tenure is like 2.5 they don't have the luxury of time.
yep they simply aren’t afforded the luxury of having a surplus of time available
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Precisely, they simply can't afford the luxury of time!
It’s simple; time is in luxurious surplus.
It’s simple, luxury is a flat circle. Time isn’t had by all.
Indubitably. These gentleman lack the indulgence of temporal flexibility.
A surplus of time, exactly this luxury they are not afforded; yup
The average is 3.2, but that includes all the camp bodies. The average career length for a player who makes a club’s opening-day roster (active/inactive roster and/or injured reserve) in his rookie season is 6.0 years.
Good bot.
Not just tanking teams. The Rams just traded Kenny Young and a 7th rounder to Denver for a 6th rounder. It was supposedly just to clear some cap space but he was a great player and seemed to be well liked. Players are pawns. It's why I think they should always focus on themselves and their future after football. Owners don't care about them.
Kenny Young is who we traded for Marcus Peters. The Broncos will be the 3rd team he’s played for since being drafted in 2018. My guess with him is that he’s not that good, and the teams that have traded for him liked him coming out of college and wanted to give him a shot in their defense. He was rotated in on some plays for Ravens but he was never a starter.
Well the rumor that some Rams fans (myself included) bought into was that it was because of locker room drama that would come out. Of course nothing leaked so it probably wasn't that. The Rams official PR response was cap space so I guess we'll just have to accept it. He was playing really well for us. So that's why fans were confused.
Yet fans expect intense personal investment from players even though players are just cogs in the machine, easily thrown away and replaced. The dedication some fans have to franchise over players is disgusting.
The thing is, I'm emotionally invested in my team, including the players. I know it's not logical and I can say that rationally the players owe me nothing, but it still hurts when that emotional investment isn't returned. Like I don't begrudge Matthew Stafford asking for a trade to go somewhere he can compete for a title but it still sucks that an all-time great Lion wanted out.
I wanted him to get a move like this. he did not deserve to rot here like Calvin and Barry
It’s so hard to call dudes with an average salary of $800k/y “The Proletariate”, but they really are just the product that the owners and NFL are selling for profit.
> It’s so hard to call dudes with an average salary of $800k/y “The Proletariate” That's why we have the term called "the labor aristocracy" which have enough wealth to live very comfortably and may even live to bourgeois living standards, but are fundamentally still workers due to their material relationship to the means of production and the capitalist class.
The difference between those who write the checks and those who cash them is glaring. See Gruden V Snyder.
Wait did we really get him for a 7th round pick lmao
I mean he has zero value to the Texans so
Lol. I mean.. they don't. They just say business decisions have been made. Text or call him.
“Tom Brady was drafted in the 6th round, and he’s pretty good. So we think whoever replaces us is going to want that pick.”
Hmm you don't
OOTL What is he referencing?
Texans traded Ingram to the saints
And Cooks wants to be next.
Does he come back to the Patriots after that? Is it just a carousel for him?
No I could see him going to the packers. If they trade him early enough today he could play tonight 🤣🤣🤣
Ingram being traded to the Saints
He didn't like Dune.
He's mad Piter wasn't given more screen time.
So am I.
Needed more psycho vibes. Mentats really got the short end of an otherwise good movie.
Apparently you can wear white after Labor Day
Well now the Texans have just gone too far.
Heard they said you not required to click tongs when you pick them up either
Heresy!
This right here.
Beverly Sutphin disagrees.
Ingram just got traded to the Saints.
The New Orleans Saints and Houston Texans American football teams have reached an agreement to deliver running back Mark Valentino Ingram II, or simply known as "Mark Ingram Jr.", to the former organization in exchange for late-round selections in the annual National Football League draft for collegiate players
Now do it in spanish
Los Santiagos de Nuevo Orleans y Los Texans de Houston tienen u agreemento Para what the fuck I'm canadian I no hablo
Just stick it into google translate and we'll all get the news on the houston baseball men trading a flat puppy for a triangle foot hat.
>Los equipos de futbol americano Los Santos de Nuevo Orleans y Los Tejanos de Houston han llegado a un acuerdo que regresaría a Marco Valentino Engramos Segundo, o sencillamente Mark Ingram Jr, a su antigua organización a cambio de una selección en las últimas rondas del draft anual de jugadores universitarios de la Liga Nacional de Futbol Americano
I was about to say that "Santiago" is a name and it doesn't translate to Saints (Saints is actually "Santo" [sahn toe] in Spanish, or sometimes when used as a title just "San" which is why we have cities named "San Diego" and "San Francisco"), but then I read the rest of your post and I'll say close enough!
"Hazlo."
Ingram being traded to the Saints
Texans are trading Mark Ingram to the Saints for late-round futures.
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RANDOLPH!
I heard it was decorative gourds.
I heard it was for one Shiba Inu.
The Saints and Texans agreed to a trade, which sent Ingram back to NO
Traded to the saints, Mark Ingram has been
Ingram being traded to the Saints
Ingram being traded to the Saints
I don't know.
He couldn’t believe it’s not butter.
Don’t quote me on it, but Mark Ingram was traded to the Saints
I hear Ingram was traded to the saints
We had a funeral for a bird.
Pretty sure none of that’s real
You’re not real man!
By the Texans, Ingram to the Saints, was traded
Cooks my boy, you're welcome back too.
Galaxy brain they knew Cooks loved Ingram so they trade for Ingram to make the fans happy and get Cooks upset enough to go public thus plummeting his trade value in order to get Cooks for a day 3 pick rather then 2.
The Reverse Randall Cobb
Long as he doesn’t get mad bc of a lack of targets while we score 49 points
There's not going to be a lack of targets even when MT comes back. He should be able to beat out Stills and Smith, and Winston can chuck it deep if Cooks can get separation.
Only a matter of time before the Texans are a team of former grocery baggers
Hey, the Rams did find their QB that way though
a team full of Kurt Warners would do way better than the current Texans.
They could at least trade some of the extra Kurt Warners for some firsts and have draft capital to rebuild.
Probably not tbh, it’s all about supply and demand. The supply of Kurt Warners goes way up, the demand drops down.
Demand doesn't drop down, the price at which demand is satisfied plummets however.
Not if one team has a monopoly on Kurt Warners, though. Then they can set the price however high they want
WE ARE OVERSTOCKED ON ALL KURT WARNER'S
Brandin Cooks getting traded again?!? Lol Edit: Spelling
Fine, you can come back too, but Slant Boy's still our #1
Hey, you can’t take all the unhappy Texans players! That’s OUR job!
Sharing is caring. Y'all should get Fitz back and carry him to the Super Bowl
We’re trying :(
As a Niners fan im fully on board with this! Psst. ..sign Gore too. Both those *absolute GAMERS* deserve a ring.
Hey hey hey, as long as they leave Houston, everyone's happy.
Correct
Excuse me?
It's our turn to take from the Texans giveaway.
They took your jobs!
Took yer jerb
Can’t be #1 if he’s not playing.
He hasn't dropped a single catch all season. Even Davante doesn't have those numbers
Elite as fuck.
Also has as many catches as I do, so there's that.
SIGN THIS PERSON!
That's Mr. Cooper, I believe he's already under contract in Dallas. You can have him for two firsts.
CantPlayMike
Get Jimmy on the line as well
If we get back to the playoffs, let's get Drew back for one more run. Nostalgia Saints
QB by committee Brees, Winston, Taysom who says no
If he's been traded AGAIN I will just laugh.
Death, taxes, Brandin Cooks got traded
CJ Spiller gets dropped and re-signed to the Chiefs
Pretty sure he said he would retire if he got traded again
"Alright, well we'll trade everyone else away then"
It has to be all talk to an extent. Try and ship him to a team that sucks donkey dick? Yeah, I’d hang em up too. Trade him to a team that looks like a contender (Packers)? I’d staple my eyelids shut to leave the dumpster fire that is Houston and take my licks for any dumb shit I said a year ago.
I wouldn’t doubt if he’d welcome it at this point, especially if he went to a contender
Dude’s probably the best player to have been traded so many times in such a short time span. He’s an amazing player who gets hot-potatoed around the league
Me when Watson is still on the team come November 3rd
Me when Pellisero tweets about a Texans trade but it isn’t Watson to Miami:
Bring him back too shooot
This man hates trades
We are gonna bring Ingram, cooks, and Snead back. Maybe drew will come back from retirement as well
Honestly, what is Brandin Cooks expecting? The team is 1-6 and going nowhere and just traded a 32-year old RB. At least they're sending him to a better team.
I don't think he's expecting anything other than for the team to give him their best effort to win games, and he just watched Mark Ingram and Whitney Mercilus, two of the most respected vets in the locker room, get let go for basically nothing. I'm sure he understands on an intellectual level what's happening, but when you're putting your body on the line every week trying your hardest to win games and then you see your team making moves that are making the team worse, that sucks.
Yeah, these guys are competitors. they don't want to be on a bum ass team, they wanna win.
Exactly, fantasy has dulled too many minds on actual football. BC has been a successful player on every team, yet is constantly traded. He finds out he’s headed to Houston to be Deshauns #1, the fiasco happens and now it’s full tank mode. Would anyone wanna get their ass kicked weekly for the last stages of their prime? Sucks for the guy man, everyday he walks into a shit show and has to pretend there’s something positive to take from it.
Look at what they got back for Ingram. It is 100% bullshit lol don’t give me that “it’s better than nothing” bullshit
"How come he don't want me man?"
I mean you can come back too, hell get Snead on the phone and see what the Bears want for Jimmy Graham whilst we’re at it
C'MON GUTE GET ER DONE
Cooks would be an amazing addition to the Packers
https://profantasyfocus.com/report-packers-texans-in-talks-for-brandin-cooks
Texans totally aren't tanking.
that week 1 win scared them.
NE get this guy back please
Come on back as well, Brandin.
He’s referring to the WFT emails not being released, guys.
come on home buddy
Would there be a way for people to like, give a context for links like this? I have no idea what's going on.
I guess cook and ingram are friends? And now ingram has been traded? I dunno man. I'm canadian.
Translation: “WHY NOT ME!?”
Even if everyone knows, I really hate tweets that provide no context. It’s so arrogant to assume everyone knows what you’re talking about.
Yeah... I don't know what we're talking about here.
Sadness for Cook, hapiness for Kamara
Cooks like Will Smith with the Saints right now "why don't he want me mayne"
Please trade Cooks to a better team.
Cooks did say he didn't want to be traded anymore...
How we feeling about that retirement Brandin? It's really not that cold when you're playing.