That vid is a good watch, but it misses on Cooks a bit. His route running is very good, first off. He is fast in and out of breaks, and the analyst cherry picking a vid where he had to slow considerably and then assuming that Tom Perfect didn't underthrow him, that it was the wideout's fault, is bad analysis IMO.
The out pattern he showed was more demonstrative I think. It shows how the Pats value guys who are thinking/preparing with incredible detail, and the fact that Cooks wasn't in a damn mind meld with Brady means they didn't want to upset things in NE and pay him more than their future HoF tight end. But Cooks is going to get a similar next-level coaching here in LA to work on that, and hopefully he'll sign a damn contract and quit jumpin around so he can get settled in an offense and max his potential.
What you get with Cooks is a guy with elite speed and who can run the precise routes this offense requires. In that regard he is a better fit than Watkins (whose routes are good moreso than great), and while Watkins "ceiling" in this offense if he had signed might have been higher (he is a super rare athlete and strong as F both in traffic and vs the jam) I believe we'll get more production out of Cooks.
