BEREA, OH — In what may be the start of a massive exodus of players, the Cleveland Browns traded wide receiver Amari Cooper and a sixth round pick to the Buffalo Bills, for a 2025 third and seventh rounder, per NFL Network’s Tom Pelissaro.
Cooper, who caught 72 passes for a career-high 1,250 yards and five touchdowns, has caught 250 yards, two touchdowns and 24 catches this season.
With the loss of Stefan Diggs to the Houston Texans, Cooper immediately becomes the new WR1 for Buffalo, and pairing him across from rookie Keon Coleman, look for Cooper to reestablish himself as one of the top wideouts in the league.
For the Browns, this is clearly a move—one of potentially many—to recoup some of the draft capital from the failed Deshaun Watson deal, and save face for the blatant sunken cost fallacy in trotting the biggest sports free agency bust in NFL history under center in Cleveland.
If seeing the Browns try to look like a professional football team is considered a crime, then the front office and ownership all need to be charged with misrepresentation and conspiracy to commit fraud.
The team is a sports and media laughing stock.
Fans openly praying and cheering for injury to their so-called $230 million dollar savior, who just recently settled his 28th sexual assault lawsuit, and posted another dismal performance on the field, is a co-conspirator in the obvious disregard by the Browns and their failed ownership to their own investors.
The fans.
If Cleveland’s upcoming home game vs. the Cincinnati Bengals, let alone a QB, that Cleveland has owned in Joe Burrow ends up in an other loss, things in Dawg Pound Nation will get very tense, as fan anger towards the incompetent Browns ownership, and enabling an alleged sexual predator to masquerade as a NFL quarterback, is at its boiling point.
Fans have a right to vocally express themselves respectfully and responsibly, but what the Haslam’s are doing in trying to save face in tanking the season, and wasting away another prime year of Myles Garrett, Nick Chubb and David Njoku is inexcusable.
And sadly, they may also be moved.
Names such as Njoku, Jack Conklin, Juan Thronhill are rumored to be on the trade block. It’s only Week 7, and yet this Browns season is already basically over.
Cooper is the first of likely many players on their way out of The Land, and certainly will not be the last.
I’ve been a fan since 1977. I don’t remember a bigger gut punch than this season. I came into the season of playing for an AFC championship and instead we get this train wreck. And, yet I don’t agree with replacing Stefanski. He’s still the best coach we’ve had since Shottenhimer (spelling). We had a good team last year with right type of QB.