Cooper Kupp: "There's Definitely Room To Grow"

Cooper Kupp (0:00)

All right, guys, I'm going to keep you guys waiting. I don't want to point fingers or anything, but it was Jeff's fault, if you want.

SPEAKER_2 (0:13)

When Clint was here last year, did you guys get the sense he was a guy who could be a future head coach someday?

Cooper Kupp (0:19)

Yeah, I mean, I don't know if you, that's like, I don't know, that's not how you sit here and see things, you know, you're just in the moment.

But certainly in terms of, you see a lot of the characters, there's like looking back on it, you certainly see like, man, there's a lot of stuff here that, you know, it would, you know, plays into a lot of the things, fundamental things you're looking for in terms of a person leading an organization. And so, but yeah, it's cool to see him out there. I mean, I always said the only thing would be like the energy, but man, he seems to have plenty of that energy over there now. Never showed that over here, but it's good to see that he's letting loose a little bit. So he was still flat as he looks to the outside? Yeah, he wasn't flat. Flat's a bad word, but it was like, he was definitely not jumping up and doing the splits or anything like he's doing now.

SPEAKER_3 (1:09)

You're talking about coming off the field, high-fiving? Yeah.

Cooper Kupp (1:12)

Yeah, there's some pictures of him that would be like, there's no chance that's Clint, but fair enough, it is.

SPEAKER_3 (1:17)

So I think you mentioned last year, there was a point where you kind of knew where Clint was in his day by like where his hat was on his head. Have you figured out a similar tale with Brian Fleury?

Cooper Kupp (1:26)

No, Brian's pretty consistent. He's pretty consistent with his, hey, where is it? Like he wears like right here, you know, really low. So he's pretty consistent with it, haven't figured it out yet.

SPEAKER_2 (1:37)

Why do you think Clint was so successful here and got that chance in Vegas so quickly?

Cooper Kupp (1:43)

You know, I mean, I think it's the guy that he is. I mean, I think the ball knowledge is obviously a paramount thing. The character that he just goes about his day-to-day life with, the work ethic, you know, like I said, a lot of the foundational traits that you look for in terms of, you know, a person you want leading an organization, you know, he lives all that stuff out. And so, you know, you get a chance to sit down and really talk with Clint.

You have to love the guy. And so, you know, I think that's probably where it started.

SPEAKER_3 (2:20)

When you get to know a coach, how much of the respect that you earn or that they earn is based off of their ball knowledge and the positions that you, they put you and the offense into? How much of it's based off of them as a person and as a leader?

Cooper Kupp (2:33)

Yeah, it's probably a little, I mean, it's a little bit of both. You know what I mean?

You know, I think there's like, just like in anywhere, like it's any time you're working with someone, like, you know, you can respect the person and then be like, you know, I really love being with this person. I love the person that they are and the energy that they bring in to things. Maybe they're not good at their job. And like, that's fine, you know, but, you know, there's still they're on different spheres. And so, you know, I think that's where, you know, you love the person and you love who he is as a ball coach.

SPEAKER_4 (3:10)

When it comes to this offense, third down conversions were better this last week against Arizona, but there's still opportunity to be more efficient on first and second downs. What's missing there or what's the key factor?

Cooper Kupp (3:21)

Yeah, yeah, and there's definitely room to grow without a doubt. I mean, I think one of the things that we did do well is we eliminated a lot of those negative plays, but there is just an onus on being able to fall forward. And we did it. It's the same story. It's like, man, we've shown we can do it, but the consistency at which we're doing that, can we fall forward and be in, can we be in second and six versus being in second and nine? There's some of those things where it's like, man, runs, I think, you know, Zach was on, you know, Sharps did a great job on a few plays where, you know, they did a good job defensively of stuffing up the run, but he just, and he found a way to fall forward. Like, man, shoot, it didn't look good, but it's second and six, you know? And so it doesn't have to look pretty necessarily, but there's just a, you know, everyone has that understanding. There's an effort that's required to be able to make sure that you're finding ways to, sometimes maximum effort gets you four yards and that's what it needs.