Cooper Kupp was officially released... and he's still an FA. Are #Patriots interested?

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Cooper Kupp was officially released... and he's still an FA. Are #Patriots interested? Should Kupp go to NE or elsewhere? Address WR at #NFL Draft instead?

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00:00Cooper Cup was officially released by the LA Rams yesterday, and he's still a free agent.

00:08Why are the Patriots leaving him dangling out there like a participle?

00:13Well, Greg, that's a great question. I had tweeted just the other day, not to pat myself on the back,

00:19I got quite a bit of views, that they should just send the pick they got in the Devon Godshaw trade,

00:25the 7th round pick, to the Rams, bringing Cooper Cup.

00:29Yeah, you absorb the contract, but you can rework it, as Curtis will tell you, the cap is crap.

00:33You can just rework the contract, you don't have to pay half of it anyways, because the Rams guaranteed that money.

00:37So it's really only like $27 million over two years that you're technically responsible for if you use the old contract.

00:45Or you can rework it and give him a brand new one. You can literally just shred it and give him a brand new one.

00:50And they didn't do that, now he's a free agent, now any team can talk to him, and yet here we are,

00:5618 hours after the start of the NFL League year, and he's still a free agent.

01:02How have the Patriots not been beating down his door to get him in the building? I just don't get it.

01:06Let me ask, is it possible that they are planning to rely only on the draft when it comes to the wide receiver position?

01:16There's no way. They can't be. What's the word? Malfeasance?

01:22Malfeasance.

01:23Malfeasance, that's what that would be. There's no way that you could be going in to this season and saying,

01:30Alright, we're going to use the fourth pick on a wide receiver and add him to a wide receiver room that has no real elite.

01:44No veteran presence.

01:45No veteran presence, no real elite talent, just a bunch of young guys trying to find their way.

01:51And Matt Collins.

01:53Yeah, and Matt Collins, who is basically a journeyman, third down, a third, fourth receiver.

02:00They save on cleats with him too.

02:02Yes, so there's no way that, and Vrabel's too smart for, as a coach, as somebody who's been in the league for a number of years,

02:11for him to say, we're going into the season with a wide receiver room that looks like that.

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