FRISCO -- Amari Cooper didn't have much time to pack last week after learning that he had been traded from the Oakland Raiders to the Dallas Cowboys. The two-time Pro Bowl receiver needed to get to North Texas as soon as possible to take a physical and start learning a new offense.

Thanks to Dallas' bye week, Cooper was able to get back to the Bay Area over the weekend to gather some of his belongings. Coincidentally, Cowboys wide receivers coach Sanjay Lal was also in the area, tending to a family matter.

In attempt to get the former top five pick up to speed with Dallas' offense, Cooper and Lal met three consecutive days for a couple hours each day at Fallon Sports Park in Dublin, Calif.

"We just walked through the plays," Cooper said. "We got there kind of early so there wasn't many people there."

Part of their time together included Lal recording Cooper's routes on his iPad so they could review his progression.

Cooper also spent some of his bye week discussing the offense on the phone with quarterback Dak Prescott.

"It was mostly just, 'What's your favorite route to throw? How do you like to throw this route? This signal is for this play. This is the code word for that play,'" Cooper explained. "Things of that nature."

Although Thursday's practice marked only Cooper's third with his new teammates, the expectation is that he will be a significant part of the game plan beginning in his debut, Monday night at AT&T Stadium against Tennessee.

"I've picked up a lot so far," Cooper said. "There's definitely a sense of urgency being that I just got here and we have to play this week. I have to go out there and play on Monday and it's a completely new system.

"At the end of the day, it's football. I played in a couple of different systems now, so after a while you're really doing some of the same things, they just call it something different."

Speaking publicly for the first time since Dallas traded its 2019 first-round pick for Cooper, star running back Ezekiel Elliott said the Cowboys made a "great move" to acquire an "electrifying" player.

There hasn't been as much open field for Elliott and the running game this season. Inconsistency from the offensive line has been part of the problem, but so has the NFL's 29th ranked passing offense.

Part of the reason Dallas added a player like Cooper is to take some attention away from Elliott. If Cooper can produce like he did during his first two years in the league, opposing defenses will have to reduce the number of players they have waiting to pounce on Elliott near the line of scrimmage.

"They're going to have to focus some attention on him," Elliott said. "If they don't, then they're going to get hurt. He's definitely going to loosen that box up and make things a little bit easier."

The Cowboys have come away impressed with how quickly Cooper has picked up the offense. They know he can run routes, catch passes and make big plays, but they need him to understand all of their formations, calls and adjustments. If he can do that, he should be an instant upgrade to their passing game.

Cooper said Thursday that he doesn't feel any pressure to make an immediate impact.

Why not?

"I mean, why feel pressure when you can apply it," he said. "That's my take on that."