Amari Cooper is on his 5th year getting $13,924,000 before hitting FA next year, Brown's getting an average of 2 mil more than that a year. Amari obviously wasn't the best fit in Gruden's system given how every week was either 20 yards or 100 yards. Brown could put up 100 yards a game with Landry Jones. This should be an upgrade over Cooper for the Raiders, but that doesn't mean Cooper won't be great for the Cowboys.
When the Raiders were legit good under Jon Gruden the WRs were 35+ year old Tim Brown and Jerry Rice. The good WRs Gruden has had have always been basically 30+ like Joey Galloway, Keenan McCardell, Antonio Bryant and although drama Keyshawn Johnson on the Bucs. With the Eagles pre-Raiders he had a 30+ year old WR too that was like 1200 yard type.
It's way harder finding a good young WR that has worked for Gruden.
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