Another Questionable Personnel Decision

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(11-20-2019, 02:40 PM)shanebo Wrote: Watching the Cards game last week, I saw Murray throw a touchdown pass to Pharoah Cooper.  I thought wait, wasn't he on our team for a bit?  Yep.  He played for us in the Seattle game -- no targets, no receptions, then was waived.  Later picked up by the Cardinals.  Seven games, 16 receptions (on 21 targets) for 157 yards and a TD.  Not a world-beater, obviously, but better than Willis and Morgan. Useful, at least.

Now I'm not saying Cooper would have led us to a superbowl, the playoffs, or even a win.  But it is another baffling example of how management inexplicably avoids available, proven NFL-caliber talent (like Cooper at WR, or Zach Brown/Nick Perry/Brandon Marshall at LB) in favor of practice squad scraps like Willis and Morgan at WR or Hardy Nickerson and LaRoy Reynolds at LB, etc.  As an aside, I just noticed that Uzomah is ahead of Eifert on the depth chart -- WTF is that all about??  It's almost like we're actively trying to lose!

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