Dallas Cowboys: Amari Cooper, the Cowboys may have reversed the scenario of the season with a monstrous quarter against Washington

ARLINGTON – An exchange that seemed uncertain after three and a half games became brilliant after four. I'm not sure that such a thing should be physically possible, but three weeks ago, those who really thought that the Cowboys ranked first and imposed themselves as the team to beat in the East of the NFC were going to be the story of Thanksgiving day?

After claiming a more modest victory over Washington on Thursday afternoon – the Cowboys were leading 10-7 at halftime – Dallas let Amari Cooper start the throws and set up a show in the second half for a 31- 23 Cowboys and Redskins with 6-5 disks.

Washington lost its quarterback a week ago. Dallas may have found its wide receiver for half a dozen seasons on Thursday afternoon.

"Amari seems to be bidding for his money," Jerry Jones, owner of the Cowboys, said late Thursday. A fairly high amount ($ 13 million) was already at stake for Cooper next season. The plays finally arrived in the third quarter.

Cooper caught four passes for 35 yards in the first half. These were games that moved the chains, but not games that changed the game. And after 3 and a half games in the Cowboys' uniform, Cooper's 11.3-yard average was well below the 15, 14 and 14 of his first three seasons as an Oakland Raider.

Were all the recipients destined to be fools with Dak?

Cooper rewrote the script with 40- and 90-yard touchdowns that allowed Dallas to take control of the game and have at least one hand in the wheel for first place in the division.

The 40-yard TD was a 5-yard catch that became a monstrous game only when the cornerback of the Redskins Quinton Dunbar slipped to the ground. But in the Cowboys' next possession, Cooper caught a pass about 23 yards from the center before overtaking his former Alabama teammate, Ha Ha Clinton Dix, in the end zone.

What if they were not exactly the bombs that Prescott had thrown? Bob Hayes had yards after the capture too, you know. Nobody thought of following them at the time.

"Ha ha's fast, you know I played with him," Cooper says. "I just tried to get up and run, I have to work on my form."

If Cooper is a work in progress, the Cowboys are lucky. He caught eight passes for 180 yards, which, for the curious, exceeds the number of yards that Dez Bryant provided in a single game, except one in 2012. Regarding the franchise, well, some big producers have worn the star on the helmet. Cooper's 180 players ranked 20th overall, making the Hayes Hall of Fame's fifth-best match at the next level.

Just a month ago, Washington defeated Dallas 20-17, leaving the Cowboys 3-4 and feeling that there were no big games in sight of anyone. did not call Zeke. The next day, the club sent a first round pick to the Oakland Raiders for Cooper, the fifth pick in 2014 who was struggling to be part of a team Jon Gruden had prepared for a trip to nowhere. His brother, Jay, may have sent him a sarcastic text for the craft that elevated the Cowboys' stature in the division.

"He's 24, that's what it's really like at the end of the day," said Cowboys Vice President Stephen Jones. "We just felt that we would not have a player like him in the repechage.

The impact was especially evident abruptly until Sunday's explosion.

"The young guys we had worked hard," said Scott Linehan, coordinator of the offensive, "but the impact guy opens everything, including running."

Elliott played his third consecutive game with 100 yards. He's been doing a lot since his arrival in 2016, so it's hard to measure what the wide receiver will do for the stratagems of his opponents against the race. But since Cooper arrived here, you certainly can not say that the current game has gone south.

A draft pick of 2019 that seemed to be in the top 10 when the Cowboys dropped to 3-5 could move to the 20s if Dallas can continue its winning streak in December.

Anyway, Cooper, in a low voice, made it clear that he would not be looking to get Oakland.

"As I said earlier, I do not want to prove that the Raiders are wrong," he said. "I want to prove that the Cowboys are right."

A transformational transformation that we witnessed in the third quarter – from Amari Cooper, the reliable possession receiver, to Amari Cooper, the colossal gaming machine – would do just that.

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