Dalllas Cowboys: How Amari Cooper is impacting the offense

Newly-acquired receiver Amari Cooper has 11 catches for 123 yards and a touchdown in two games with the Dallas Cowboys, including six for 75 in last Sunday's season-saving 27-20 victory against the Philadelphia Eagles.

Do not let the seemingly modest numbers fool you.

Go by what you see.

And even Stevie Wonder can recognize that the Cooper has already made a dramatic impact on the Cowboys offense and passing game.

While he has yet to provide the game-breaking element, which was the basis of the team's decision to give a first-round pick to acquire his Oakland Raiders during the bye, he has come to be a chain mover.

10 of his 11 catches have resulted in first downs. Those numbers are already good enough for a second on the team behind Cole Beasley.

Most importantly, a Cowboys offense that was converting just 31.8 percent of third to two games has converted 48.1 the past games.

The Cowboys were eight of 16 on third down against the Eagles, including a perfect four-game-deciding 75-yard touchdown drive in the fourth quarter.

"When you add a guy who can win one-on-one, doing different things, winning shorts, winning down the field, winning across the field, intermediate routes it certainly helps you," coach Jason Garrett said of Cooper's third- down impact. "It gathers a little bit more attention from the defense and it opens up opportunities for other guys and it benefits you as well.

"He's played a lot of football in a short period of time for us. I think the biggest thing is his focus, his commitment, our coaching staff is ready to go. And he's playing a lot of different spots for a lot of different things. I think that's helped our passing game. It's opened up opportunities for our entire offense. "

Dak Prescott the most. Tennessee Titans and Eagles, completing 67.7 and 72.2, respectively. He was last season high a 65.5 in the season opener against the Carolina Panthers more than none weeks ago.

"I mean, it's a great receiver," said Prescott, who had a season-high 26 on the season-high 36 attempts for 270 yards and a touchdown against the Eagles. "I do not think it was going to be a hard transition." As you saw, we missed a couple of deep balls tonight but that's something we're still going to fine-tune and get right. It's something we had a conversation with immediately in the locker room about how we're going to get it done. But we'll get that, it will be tough. "

It's the road that stands out for Garrett as well. Watching him play, you can see why the Raiders made him the fourth-overall pick in 2015 draft and why he had over 1,000 yards receiving and back to back Pro Bowl bids his first two years in the league.

The talent is obvious.

"I think he releases well," Garrett said. "He's got very good quickness, body control, very good understanding of how to release against press coverage. A disciplined road runner when they play off, in terms of understanding the depths he needs, the angles he needs, how to beat a guy, how to get himself open in a zone. I think he's got a good feel for how to run in man-to-man coverage. He's got quickness and burst, that's one line, he gets people off of him. He also has body control, the ability to change direction, put his foot in the ground and go the other way, establish the angles coming to the quarterback. "I'm having a good job of competing at the ball and I think it's about each of these things over the last couple of weeks."

And it will be better for the Cowboys because of the fact that they have a lot of things to do.

Cooper says it's only a matter of time.

"I'm definitely going to win," Cooper said. "Obviously they are expected to be the same, being traded for me. Obviously, we have some things to work on, and we are talking about it. But, we're creating that chemistry and we're going to get better. "

Clarence E. Hill Jr .: @clarencehilljr