Yahoo Sports NFL analyst Nate Tice and fantasy analyst Matt Harmon react to the Amari Cooper trade that sends receiver to the Bills and how he fits into a Bills offense that needs an upgrade at wide receiver. Listen to the full conversation on “Football 301” – and subscribe at , , or

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Maury Cooper is moving to the Buffalo Bills.

It's a pick swap that involves Cleveland getting a third-round pick from Tom Pissaro, who had this news, had the breaking news.

All right, Matt, what do you think about this Amari Cooper?

You could say those in Cleveland aren't really feeling it.

Uh, in the last few weeks since Joe Flacco stopped throwing him the ball on every single throw.

What do you think about that?

I find it really, really interesting.

I think it's fun.

Oh, I think it's super fun and I think it makes so much sense for Buffalo because I've been saying for weeks on this show or some other show that I'm on this show?

I think Buffalo has the worst outside wide receiver game in the NFL, or at least they are up there and especially when it comes to separation.

Um, you know, Kon Coleman isn't ready to be that guy.

These guys are good supporting players in my opinion.

Um, I've always said I'd love, you know, I'd love to see Kon Coleman as a slot more.

Surely.

How about removing him from the battle line?

How about just not making him like I thought Matt Collins was her self-sacrificing ex-caretaker and it's actually Kon Coleman's kind of her self-sacrificing ex-caretaker.

I just think there are much better ways to use it.

Um and Amari Cooper is tough this year because I don't think he had a great season at the beginning of the year.

But how much of that is because, like you said, he just doesn't feel it.

Um, he has a drop rate of about 10% per year depending on which source you look at.

But also, um, you know, fantasy scoring data, these guys do a great job, like charts and data and stuff like that.

They have a status that is unobtainable due to inaccurate passports.

52.1 percent of Aarti Cooper's 676 air yards this season were unobtainable due to inaccurate passes over half, you say somewhere close to 2,831.

And I thought that was a high 52,352 air yards, but that's not on the table.

That's why it's so difficult to look at his work from a production standpoint and attribute it to the player.

I just think it makes a lot of sense from an addition standpoint.

Of course, I don't think 52% of his air yards will be uncatchable because of inaccurate throws from Josh Allen.

This is exactly what they needed. I didn't like Amari Cooper without some teams, but I love her, I love him with the Bills.

Me, me, this is what they needed.

He has to get there.

I'm glad he brought catchy stuff because I think Amari has always been like that.

He's a smart player and he's one of those guys who knows when something's wrong.

And he's not the type of guy to be like, OK, I'm going to get over this.

He's like, uh, I don't know, I don't really feel it.

He'll feel it when Josh Allen rips and throws him.

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