Amari Cooper: Cowboys multi-faceted offense is a 'worst nightmare' for defenses

Amari Cooper: Cowboys multi-faceted offense is a 'worst nightmare' for defenses

FRISCO - Amari Cooper speaks softly ... which only makes the star receiver's pronouncements of Dallas Cowboys' excellence all the more powerful.

“I think that’s like a defense’s worst nightmare when everybody is making plays,'' Cooper said on Wednesday when asked to reflect on how the Cowboys' offensive weaponry performed in Week 1's 35-17 drubbing of the Giants. "How can you game plan against that? How can you make adjustments? What are you going to do?”

Those very questions now are on the plate of the Washington Redskins, Dallas' Week 2 opponent. The Cowboys go to D.C. on Sunday boasting the NFC Offensive Player of the Week in QB Dak Prescott, two tight ends with TD catches, a running back in Ezekiel Elliott who tells me he's "ready for a full workload'' and a crew of wideouts who had so much fun against the Giants that they were trying to purposely make sure all three of them ended up with a TD reception.

"I think it’s a good start. It says a lot that everybody’s making plays,” Cooper said. “The Redskins are going to have a harder time game-planning for us, and hopefully we can come out, practice hard this week and have the same result on Sunday.”

My impression is that Cooper's foot/heel issue is still something that he and the Cowboys training staff monitors on Monday through Saturday, even to the point of him not "pushing it'' too much in practice ... and then on Sunday, he cuts it loose, as he did so often during the win over the Giants.

An injury setback would be a "nightmare'' for the Cowboys, of course. But three-time Pro Bowler Cooper said his foot ailment "is getting better every day.” Which Cowboys Nation hopes equals continuing "nightmares'' for Dallas' opponents.