Cooper Kupp has a route running secret. 

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_Does anyone just get the feeling that Cooper Kupp will make a good coach one day?_

His route-running is obviously incredible, but his short-area quickness is also amazing to watch. The speed at which he gets from one move to another is physical talent as well as great technique.

It gets really nasty when he actually breaks on the second move and the db is waiting on a third lol.

Another thing with Kupp is that his conditioning looks top tier. So even as he became a better runner, he's not running out of gas the entire game. So he maintains his top speed in all 4 quarters while setting you up with his ability to run options on his routes.

He dominates with his can-do attitude and unparalleled time spent watching film and hitting the weight room. His heart and grit are his greatest attributes .

It amazes me how quick and eager the whole nfl was to write off Kupp as a one season wonder, revenge szn coming soon

Cooper Kupp is one of my favorite players to watch. How the Rams use him and his skill sets it makes watching and rewatching Rams games so interesting to me. I enjoy seeing where Kupp lines up every snap.

Kupp Woods and Gurley represent McVay's era the most to me.

He’s easily a top 5 receiver if he could consistently stay on the field. Dude’s averaging 80 receiving yards per game for his career and 110 ypg with an upgrade at QB in Stafford as opposed to Goff. Extrapolated through a 17 game season that’s 1360 yards, including his rookie season where he predictably had his least efficient numbers.

Remarkable spotlight. It never ceases to amaze me the seemingly infinite intricacies that go into being an NFL receiver. And that's even before the ball is snapped, and talent comes into the equation. I know he only one mega season in his career, but I'd probably still put him on the Rams Mount Rushmore of franchise receivers along with Holt, Bruce, and Ellard. Nutty how he lasted until round 3 in the draft.

"The rule of 3s" is a great term for something I learned a long time ago on how the greatest coaches use to exploit offenses/defenses. Example. Theres was one play where I seen a LB lined up a center in a two point stance (standing up) showing that hes probably blitzing. As soon as the ball is snapped... The LB bails backwards into coverage and the center ignores him thinking it was a bluffed blitz However... It wasn't. The LB seeing the centers head turn immediately goes back into his first assignment of a blitz and gets a free sack with no one blocking him. So the LB essentially countered the center's counter with another counter. Rule of 3s

Dude has a killer name.

The ending always gives me chills bro I love that outro especially how the music fade in😂

Aw man. As a Rams fan, this video brought happy tears to my eyes. Kupp might be my favorite Ram of all time, and that's saying something...

Quarterback is also placing ball in right spot, even he has to figure out where kupp is gonna end up. Great video.

as a college receiver myself. Kupp has helped me polish my game and using the rule of 3s and adding extra jab steps to the top of my route has helped me gained so much separation and i’m a shorter receiver so mixed in with my burst out it’s helped me

It’s crazy how people right this man off just cuz he was injured. I think he will bounce back

Dang I thought you were going to do a desmond ridder video this week

Crazy! I knew he was a master route runner, but regular tv analysis never properly illustrated just how great he is, much less how he does it or how unique he is.

Cooper Kupp’s ankle watching this 🦴☠️☠️☠️

Great video, this is exactly the kind of technique/chalk talk type analysis that the TV broadcasts just aren’t giving us during the games anymore. Keep up the good work.

He is definitely one of the technically soundest receivers I have ever watched. And I have been watching football for three decades.

Same same but different with the triple threat position in basketball (which I still don't think the average NBA player utilizes quite enough (they all want the flashy handles)). You see KD utilize the triple thread position the most by far out of all elite NBA scorers and when you break down KD's film in the triple threat position, you realize how got damn hard it is to defend it and hence the name "triple threat".

Followed him since his days a Eastern Washington. Great player and route runner

The man with the best intro on RU-vid another great video 🗣️🔥.

I love watching him and Adams play, they are outstanding.

This is amazing. Subscribed! Road to 100k 🔥

Hard work pays off! Love watching him play! Thanks Alex!

Interesting! Wow! I remember that I think around this time last year, that I had asked for a Cooper Kupp breakdown!

I've always thought of WRs the same way as RBs, replaceable. But this video made me see the value of a really good WR.

kupp is always open because hes so freakin smart

Cooper reminds me of Jerry Rice where he never looks like he is running super fast but always wide open. Great video

Somebody has new editing! Love the graphics

Can you do a video on the Saints defensive scheme and how they’ve played defense from 2017-2022

He actually doesn't always sell the second fake very well either. He only taps is foot in the directing he's NOT going, but the rest of his body is tipping where he's really going. He's just so quick in small areas that it still works

He was good before Stafford, but that connection with Stafford gave him the production to be recognized finally.

Another banger video! I used to run my posts and post corners with 3 moves every time.

Route running spectacular

Rollins you did not just put the Killua electric effect on Kupp... super Saiyan engaged.

Justin Jefferson also uses the "rule of 3". I think Kupp mixes it up better because if you over use it (i think JJ does) the better corners will use it against you. Obviously it's working for Kupp and JJ

It’s always so funny to me seeing better athletes not being able to guard Kupp. Never knew about this technique but with the amount of separation he creates it works!!

Football is my happy place

Could you make a video on the approach the Ravens defense used in 2022 against Joe Burrow?

Some of these are just double moves. You are counting that extra step which determines the way he is breaking but that isn't part of the move, in those cases like 5:15 and the rep afterward where he runs the out route vs. the Bills those are double moves. The cadence 1-2 -COMMIT to a side(right or left) you can't do any move everytime whether it is single, double, or triple the whole point is to mix it up to keep a defender on his toes with these changes throughout the flow of the game.

Sounds really simple, actually. As the great Johan Cruyff once said about soccer: ""Playing football is very simple, but playing simple football is the hardest thing there is."

Jerry Rice was "slow" and everyone knew the ball was going his way and he was still wide open a lot of the time. He was building a catalog of moves and counter moves from the first snap to the last and he was in such incredible condition he never slowed down as the game and season went along. If you look at his numbers in games where his team was still throwing the ball he would do more in the 2nd half than the 1st when his fitness and his one on one scheming on DBs let him take more advantage. But then Rice was an alien.

He’s got a lot of grit.. first one in last one out typa guy 😭

6:30 did that look like a basketball move to anybody else?

From Shane Gillis, “That was a smart run. Tough run. That was a heads-up run right there.”

Hunter Renfrow does this

Look at that laser glow effect 😂

I don’t think the injury will matter he tore his ACL in 2018 and came back even better. It’s more on the Oline to not be the worst in the league again lol.

@AlexRollinsNFL My comp for how Kupp has operated these last 3 years is a "Run Blocking Chad Ochocinco"...would you say that's pretty accurate?

Maybe he’s a hobby photographer

So essentially the DB should match him with a fake shift move on the second jump only to follow on the third. Either that or just follow the way he goes with his initial jump. The first and second is always a fake and the first is always the correct way

He might have had a terrible 40 time, but that is really immaterial to his routes. What was his 10 yard split or three cone drill times?

He got snubbed for MVP in 2021

I know Cupp has got to have a nasty crossover

Me and my brother are having an argument. How much of a factor does Kupp being a slot receiver take up when it comes to his overall success? I think it takes alot. He disagrees.

Can we get a sauce video ☝️☝️

Is it just me, or is anyone watching the video & saying to yourself “Cupp is closing the space to the defender & using a rocker step to attack yhe leverage to get open”

“But…but… he only does good cause he plays slot and is only thrown to tho”

It's like he's doing a euro step

Your non Qb videos are outstanding by and large.

Not video related but God eli apple God cooked so bad in the sb

Do any receivers just run the first route, no fakes? Or no double moves? If ever corner is playing for the double moves, would the just original route work?😂

this was a great video, and Kupp is (obviously) a great player.... BUT there were two very important words that were never mentioned here: HUNTER RENFROW You even mentioned how this aspect of Kupp's route running wasn't really a huge part of his game around 2019. He really just started to explore it in 2020 season, then in the 2021 preseason, there was a scrimmage&game between the Rams and Gruden's Raiders after which there were tons of stories and headlines about "Renfrow burns Jalen Ramsey with unique routes" and similar. There are also articles about actual quotes from Mcvay/Kupp about how Kupp literally came up to Mcvay and brought up the idea of implementing those multi-layered routes (specifically the China/Out routes playing off each other in redzone) into his game more that season. In fact, that same play that you used to demonstrate what he calls an "OCHO" is just a slight tweak on what Gruden and Renfrow called the "Flat/China" and Renfrow would even add more onto it. There was a play that same season Renfrow had in like Week 3 or 4 againt Xavien Howard in the redzone, where he ran essentially the same thing as Kupp's OCHO, except instead of ending with that re-break to the sideline with the out route, Renfrow managed to turn that out-break upfield afterwards into a sort of wheel route off of it, and left Howard spinning. In no way am I trying to say Kupp doesn't deserve all the credit in the world for how he has developed his game and for what it is today, just that this evolution between the two of them, off of one another, is an important piece of the story. Not to mention its just a very interesting look at how the very best of the best at their crafts in the world will always still be looking (and finding) new things to learn and make their own, from their peers who are also among the best.

Not right now babe. New Alex Rollins just dropped.

Didn't really understand much in this one.

So, Im just gonna sum this up....DUH.. I thought you were going to share something super secret...

When you live clean and for the LORD, putting in hard work to get better..be the best YOU that YOU can be, you take pleasure in suffering because you KNOW what the result will be. When you get in the NFL and then get to work surrounding your name with controversy, pouting, bling, 'that bag', whores, immorality, complaining, excuses, slandering, drug use, obnoxious selfish off the field issues...don't be shocked when your 'career' falls off a cliff and no one really cares about your 'beast mode' physical skills. Liabilities can only be hedged so far. Kupp will be a HOF'er because he puts in the WORK!!

Bro it ain’t that deep 😂 it’s called a rocker step

Sometimes it's just about who you'd let date your daughter and who's a hard worker and who's gritty and not hitting the Griddy

Watching this makes me sad to see Davonte's talent being wasted with the raiders

It's too bad his prime years will be wasted due to Ram's decision to go all in. No doubt he is happy to have his ring, but their decision robbed the fans of watching a great player reach his full potential.

Bro not the surveys ad read. By all means get your bag but please no one be stupid enough to actually waste your time on them.

Kupps wife is a smoke show 😂

Actually first

Kupp will still not get the credit he deserves

Kupp is overrated. Alex is the real star.

He overrated he aint put up back to back 1000 yard seasons ever