Riley Cooper is having the best season of his career. And this comes on the heels of the lowpoint, his incident at the Kenny Chesney concert. Tim McManus wrote about Riley and some of his teammates. One player who was outspoken againt Cooper was Cary Williams. Has that changed?
Williams, like many of his teammates, expressed conflicting emotions after a video of Cooper using a racial slur surfaced in late July. Right before the start of the season, he and Cooper had a heated exchange on the practice field.
Have they been able to come to a good spot personally? As teammates?
“We’re teammates. No question,” said Williams. “But I mean…We’re teammates, and we have a great working relationship.”
The body language further suggested that Williams and Cooper weren’t going out for ice cream after the game. Nor do they need to. Personal feelings aside, the team has picked up and moved on from an issue that had the ability to be pretty poisonous.
You have to give Williams and some other players a ton of credit for not making this situation one that took over the locker room. They will never look at Riley Cooper the same way, but they’ve got a functional football relationship. For now. that’s good enough.
