ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — Amari Cooper has scored touchdowns before. Sixty of them, to be exact, before he made his Buffalo Bills debut on Sunday afternoon at Highmark Stadium.
But there was some chatter online — starting with NFL linebacker-turned-TV analyst Emmanuel Acho — that Cooper didn't know what route to run on his 12-yard touchdown reception.
Coleman was asked after the game whether he told Cooper what do on go-ahead score.
"Nah, man," Coleman said. "He knows the plays. He knows the plays. I just helped him confirm it, that's all it was."
That play proved to be the go-ahead score with 10 minutes, 23 seconds left in the third quarter. The Bills put up 27 points after halftime and cruised to a 34-10 victory against the Tennessee Titans.
"We had an alert on the play built in, predicated on if we got a specific look. We got the look that we wanted, we checked to it, and it worked just like it did in practice," Cooper said.
He finished with four catches for 66 yards and a lot of acclaim from teammates to end his first week at One Bills Drive.
"He demands extra attention. If you don’t, we’re probably going to throw him the ball,” Allen said of his new teammate. “But our guys did a good job of getting open and making plays."
Coleman had a good day himself, finishing with four catches for a career-high 125 yards. Coleman also had one touchdown wiped out by a replay in the fourth quarter, when officials ruled he did not have two feet inbounds to complete a catch.