Hours after former NFL coach and current ESPN analyst Rex Ryan delivered a scathing rant in which he declared the Dallas Cowboys overpaid for wide receiver Amari Cooper and added, “I wouldn’t have paid this turd,” he apologized.
But he didn’t walk back his take about Cooper being overpaid.
“I can’t believe I said that and used that word. Obviously, it was a poor choice by me to say what I said about Amari,” he said.
“I don’t doubt that this is an elite player,” he added later. “He has those traits. But an elite receiver to me shows up on the road, he shows up against great corners, and he shows up in crunch time, and those are three things that Amari Cooper has not done so far in his career.”
That’s a little more measured and makes more sense. Maybe Ryan could have said that the first time?
