Los Angeles Rams wide receiver Brandin Cooks has been praised by coaches and players throughout his career and Detroit Lions head coach Matt Patricia joined in on the praise.
Patricia used Cooks as an example in the film room and knows Cooks well after the two spent a season together with the New England Patriots two seasons ago. The Rams were lucky enough to trade for Cooks and get him away from the Patriots prior to the 2018 season.
Moments earlier, he’d shown a terrific catch by Rams receiver Brandin Cooks, from a game against the Saints. Patricia and Cooks overlapped in New England in 2017, and the Lions’ coach recalls what it was like watching Cooks in practice. Cooks “catches three balls on every play, whether it’s thrown to him or not” — a straightforward throw to his numbers, an over-the-shoulder catch like the one we just saw him make against the Saints, and then an even more difficult attempt.
“He’s made that catch 1,000 times in practice,” Patricia says, pointing up to the video board. “Now, he may only have gotten it thrown to him twice (in a game), but he’s made it 1,000 times because he practices it every single day.”
The Lions wide receivers corps is talented, but it speaks volumes of Cooks' talents seeing as his a coach on another team is using him as an example. Cooks is a fantastic speedy pass-catcher with some of the best hands in the league so it's completely understandable why Patricia would use him to show his players how they can tweak their game.
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