Amari Cooper gets brutally honest about revenge game against Cowboys in Week 1

Fans were probably still looking for a reason to be excited for the Dallas Cowboys' Week 1 game, and they are in luck. Finally, after all these months of anticipation, folks finally have a reason to look forward to regular season football: Amari Cooper.

Cooper's headed back to Dallas for the first time since being traded away from the Cowboys back in March of 2022, and the narratives are wasting no time writing themselves. He should have never left in the first place! He could be back if the Browns season is a disaster! Something about Dak Prescott! It's the type of news story that exists purely because Twitter exists – someone in the locker room asks a question, the player gives a very normal answer and it is aggregated for the world to see.

Cooper was recently asked about his return to Dallas, and his answer ranged from "predictable" to "still predictable, but definitely a dagger in the hearts of Cowboys fans who are still salty about the trade."

Amari Cooper doesn't seem as excited to play the Cowboys as we are to watch him play the Cowboys

"It's been a couple years," said Cooper. "I think it probably would have been more emotional had it been sooner ... At the end of the day, when you grow up as a kid, watching football, these are the games that you tend to watch. The games that are primetime, the games that everybody's watching, so of course these are the games that get the most attention. I'd be lying if I said otherwise."

Ughhhh. That restrained, professional answer about coming back to Dallas is not what Cowboys fans were looking for this morning. The people wanted shade and intrigue. They wanted a better answer for that cryptic Instagram post a few weeks back that teased a potential trade out of Cleveland.

Maybe knowing that CeeDee Lamb is on the Cowboys for the next half-decade or more makes Cooper's return a little easier to deal with? If recent history is an indication, Cowboys wide receivers always stay in Dallas through the entirety of their contract extensions, so there's no reason to worry there.

In a way, Cooper was brutally honest about his return to Dallas. It's just brutal how honestly uninterested he is in playing up the drama of it all. He even admits that he knows we want sensationalism. Help us help you, Amari. We could do great things together.

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