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Cooley beats self in FF! (1 Viewer)

DonnyT33

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http://snipurl.com/uw3d

not sure if you guys seen this or its a honda..hope not....but i got a kick out of this article and it was pretty interesting for a FF guy like me...check it out..think he is in any CASH leagues???

 
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http://snipurl.com/uw3d

not sure if you guys seen this or its a honda..hope not....but i got a kick out of this article and it was pretty interesting for a FF guy like me...check it out..think he is in any CASH leagues???
That was a fun article...I am sure there are a few others out there that probably were doing it prior to coming into the NFL...I am sure many are too busy to keep up with it during the season though once they make the NFL.Guess he did not have faith in himself to draft himself! lol

 
Cooley is a first-class flake. Here's another article about him:

Cooley Is Redskins' Wild Child

Location: Ashburn, Va.

Posted: August 09, 2006 1:20 PM EST

URL: http://www.news8.net/news/stories/0806/351407.html

Ashburn, Va. (AP) - The hair is growing out of control, and those black knee-high socks at practice this week were laugh-out-loud hilarious.

Need more evidence that Washington Redskins tight end Chris Cooley is a downright goofball? Consider the behind-the-scenes story involving a pill bottle in the huddle.

It seems that Cooley, quarterback Mark Brunell and tight end Christian Fauria were having lunch after a recent training camp practice. Fauria, especially tired after the hot workout, expressed his fatigue by saying: "I need some more nutrients."

Nutrients? What kind of football player would utter a sentence like that? Cooley and Brunell couldn't help but laugh. "We made fun of him at the dinner table," Cooley said.

The next day, during another of coach Joe Gibbs' hard-nosed practices, Cooley walked into the huddle and feigned exhaustion. Right on cue, Brunell produced a bottle of vitamins, wrapped in athletic tape and labeled with the word "nutrients" written in permanent marker.

"He pops out about three of them in his hand," Cooley said. "He said, 'Here, I've got some 'nutrients' for you, bro.' So we both took some 'nutrients."'

Needless to say, there was laughter all around, all at Fauria's expense.

"You've got to have fun to be here," Cooley said. "You spend a lot of time around the guys, you've got to make it fun. I really try to, even on days I feel terrible, I really try to goof around and enjoy myself."

If multi-costumed running back Clinton Portis is the Redskins' court jester, Cooley qualifies as the team's wild child. Teammates have nicknamed him "Captain Chaos." He looks, at times, as if he would be more at home cruising a mall parking lot with high school kids on a Saturday night than playing a rugged, high-pressure professional sport.

"Some of the best goofballs were great football players," said assistant coach Joe Bugel, who can start with colorful running back John Riggins and easily rattle off a list of off-the-wall characters from the Redskins teams of the 1980s. "Cooley likes to play. He likes to grow his hair long. He does different things. Today he had on black pantaloons and high black socks. He's a fun-loving guy."

Of course, none of the antics would matter if Cooley weren't a good football player. A very good one. For all the excitement over a receiving corps that now includes Santana Moss, Brandon Lloyd and Antwaan Randle El, Cooley could be the most dangerous weapon because of his versatility, size and deceptive speed.

"He'll catch a lot of passes in this offense," Bugel said.

In a silly way, Cooley caught too many passes last year. Among his 71 receptions and seven touchdowns were three TD catches against Dallas in a big December game. It was his biggest day in the NFL so far - and it just so happened that it reaped benefits for Cooley's opponent in a fantasy football league.

"I honestly lost because I beat myself," Cooley said. "I was on the other (fantasy) team, and I score three touchdown against Dallas, and I lost to myself in fantasy points."

Cooley said he doesn't take his fantasy teams seriously, that he plays because it keeps him in touch with old high school friends back in Utah. But might he try picking himself from now on?

"I'm not going to sacrifice a good team just to have myself on it," he said jokingly.

Nevertheless, Cooley is sure to be a favorite pick among fantasy players this year, especially now that he has shed the H-back label of the old offense and is playing in a more aggressive scheme under new assistant coach Al Saunders.

"You will see me downfield a lot more," Cooley said. "Our offense plays with speed, and I think that's our biggest threat right now. We have speed all over the field. And it can open up for anybody. If I make a couple of catches down the middle and the safeties come to me, Santana and Randle El and Lloyd are going to be open on the outside."

Cooley's only real bout with controversy came last year when The Washington Post detailed his relationships with two Redskins cheerleaders, both of whom were fired from the squad for violating a rule forbidding fraternization with players. Otherwise, as with Portis, the coaches are happy to embrace Cooley's personality - as long as he produces on the field and as long as his off-the-field antics don't detract from the team.

"It's just them being themselves," Gibbs said. "I think it would be awful boring if you're out here doing all this hard work and guys didn't have a good sense of humor."
He was also recently reported to be intending to grow a mullett.
 
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"We're certainly aware that some fans play for money -- and on NFL.com there are prizes available like a trip to the Super Bowl -- but fantasy football is a game of skill, and gambling is not."
I thought this quote was interesting....Fantasy Football is both skill/luck - you can draft the best team, but if you suffer injuries to your top picks, you are not going to win. Gamblers - you agree that placing a bet is all luck ?
 
"We're certainly aware that some fans play for money -- and on NFL.com there are prizes available like a trip to the Super Bowl -- but fantasy football is a game of skill, and gambling is not."
I thought this quote was interesting....Fantasy Football is both skill/luck - you can draft the best team, but if you suffer injuries to your top picks, you are not going to win. Gamblers - you agree that placing a bet is all luck ?
whether your outcome is win or lose is pretty much luck. knowing when to place that wager, however, can be modified by skill.
 
"We're certainly aware that some fans play for money -- and on NFL.com there are prizes available like a trip to the Super Bowl -- but fantasy football is a game of skill, and gambling is not."
I thought this quote was interesting....Fantasy Football is both skill/luck - you can draft the best team, but if you suffer injuries to your top picks, you are not going to win. Gamblers - you agree that placing a bet is all luck ?
whether your outcome is win or lose is pretty much luck. knowing when to place that wager, however, can be modified by skill.
Well put.
 
"We're certainly aware that some fans play for money -- and on NFL.com there are prizes available like a trip to the Super Bowl -- but fantasy football is a game of skill, and gambling is not."
I thought this quote was interesting....Fantasy Football is both skill/luck - you can draft the best team, but if you suffer injuries to your top picks, you are not going to win. Gamblers - you agree that placing a bet is all luck ?
NFL is pretty funny sometimes..they know that gambling on its product is the biggest cash generator of them all but they have the we have nothing to do with gambling attitude...but not FF isnt gambling..well i beg to differ..I think its defenetly gambling and what about all the prop action out here now almnost all of it is bassed on FF. there are sites now that allow for you to bet one FF team against another and over and unders on almost any stat you can think of. It's really amazing when they talk there anti gambling retheric its easily the biggest reason there TV contracts are so high. Now 15 million are playing FF and its getting bigger everyday. Wow when one thinks of the cash the NFL generates is trully stagering has to be one of the biggest businesses in the world. Whats Wash worth now even after Snyder paid 800 million for them, 1.5 billion I bet if not more. When they divide up the TV revenue alone whats that check read per team EVERY YEAR? Wow..sick cash. Trsut me the owners LOVE gambling on there sport in any way shape and form..just please keep on gambling on our product is in there hearts..the more gambling more money for them.
 
http://snipurl.com/uw3d

not sure if you guys seen this or its a honda..hope not....but i got a kick out of this article and it was pretty interesting for a FF guy like me...check it out..think he is in any CASH leagues???
Wait....when did DONNYT33 come back to the board? I thought you left because no one recognized your greatness?
Trust me if they haven't its there problem not mine. Anyways you don't read the mock draft forum here? You could learn much more and do much better in FF if you paid attention to that board as much as this one. How's Carson looking for week one around here? Still looking good i bet..better get those projections back down.......lmao
 
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http://snipurl.com/uw3d

not sure if you guys seen this or its a honda..hope not....but i got a kick out of this article and it was pretty interesting for a FF guy like me...check it out..think he is in any CASH leagues???
Wait....when did DONNYT33 come back to the board? I thought you left because no one recognized your greatness?
Trust me if they haven't its there problem not mine. Anyways you don't read the mock draft forum here? You could learn much more and do much better in FF if you paid attention to that board as much as this one. How's Carson looking for week one around here? Still looking good i bet..better get those projections back down.......lmao
You don't know what you're talking about...just STOP already, guppy.
 
http://snipurl.com/uw3d

not sure if you guys seen this or its a honda..hope not....but i got a kick out of this article and it was pretty interesting for a FF guy like me...check it out..think he is in any CASH leagues???
Wait....when did DONNYT33 come back to the board? I thought you left because no one recognized your greatness?
Trust me if they haven't its there problem not mine. Anyways you don't read the mock draft forum here? You could learn much more and do much better in FF if you paid attention to that board as much as this one. How's Carson looking for week one around here? Still looking good i bet..better get those projections back down.......lmao
who the #### would read through tens of thousands of other people's mock drafts from june for no money and that don't mean ####. seriously, nobody gives that #### a second thought save for you, who thinks he is the second coming of jesus christ himself. and where did you get any new news on Palmer? since the last time you were on here going on about how you heard clayton say something about how he thinks he might miss 4 weeks maybe there's been nothing but good news. dude's looking better than ever for week 1. what, do you expect him to play the preseason 5 months after surgery?

one too many big macs dude.

 
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