Breaking: Nuke Hopkins traded to Arizona

[Montsta]

Lol The Cardinals playing Madden with Force Trades turned ON

[SmokinwithWilly]

Wish we could have gotten in on this instead of the Cards. Our second rounder for Hopkins to give Cam a true #1 WR would have been amazing. 

[Pantherzack179812]

5 hours ago, joeyxfresco said:

I think we’d be the dumbasses in that situation 

Trading a QB in his 30s and a first rounder for a guy who has 3 solid years in the league under a now proven inept coach/GM? If the qb received was Deshaun Watson, the difference on age alone would be worth a 1st, I'd rather have the QB issue solved for 10-15 years even if Cam is healthy.

[Pantherzack179812]

1 hour ago, 45catfan said:

I guess for the Clemson faithful the Texans jerseys are about to go the way of the Bills jerseys.   I expect to start seeing a bunch of Raiders swag to start popping up around the Upstate this fall.

Believe it or not, Nuk was never a huge Clemson player, was behind Sammy his whole career and blew up in the NFL.

Source: Clemson fan/ student. 

[Snake]

Wow I bet Watson is crying right now. Zero pass protection and zero WR help. Sounds like Cam. 

[top dawg]

3 hours ago, Ricky Spanish said:

Johnson has 1 year of production and an otherwise injury plagued career. He was beaten out by Kenyan Drake and has a horrible contract for little production.

Hopkins is a top 3 player at his position, is YOUNGER, than Johnson, and has many many more years of top production under his belt, and that's with Brock osweiler under center. 

You're overvaluing an unknown commodity in this year's we class. You're argument is essentially "the draft is so deep, they could even find a wr as good as DeAndre Hopkins"... When they already had DeAndre Hopkins.

The Texans got fleeced 100%. The cards just surrounded their young QB with a top notch weapon AND got the Texans to take Johnson's horrible contract.

 

A good player under a rookie contract is always better than an overpaid vet, regardless.

Perhaps they did get fleeced, but in the NFL things rarely go how you think that they will. 

 

[Ricky Spanish]

1 hour ago, top dawg said:

A good player under a rookie contract is always better than an overpaid vet, regardless.

Perhaps they did get fleeced, but in the NFL things rarely go how you think that they will. 

 

Very true, but they just traded one of the top WRs in the game on a contract that is only the 8th highest contract (about to be 9th after Cooper is re-signed) at his position, for an injury prone RB who has arguably the worst contract at his position (4th highest overall) who has only one season of legitimate production, is often injured, is going to be 29 before the season ends at a position where production drops significantly around his current age, with no true replacement for the WR they traded away.

And they didn't even get a first round pick for this WR when they already don't have a 1st round pick this year or next year.

Nothing about this trade says the Texans came out ahead. Especially after the Vikes just got a 1st for Diggs, a significant downgrade from Hopkins at the same position. This trade is not executable in Madden it's so bad.

If Marty Hurney pulled this crap, I would boycott the team until his ass were fired. 

[top dawg]

7 hours ago, Ricky Spanish said:

Very true, but they just traded one of the top WRs in the game on a contract that is only the 8th highest contract (about to be 9th after Cooper is re-signed) at his position, for an injury prone RB who has arguably the worst contract at his position (4th highest overall) who has only one season of legitimate production, is often injured, is going to be 29 before the season ends at a position where production drops significantly around his current age, with no true replacement for the WR they traded away.

And they didn't even get a first round pick for this WR when they already don't have a 1st round pick this year or next year.

Nothing about this trade says the Texans came out ahead. Especially after the Vikes just got a 1st for Diggs, a significant downgrade from Hopkins at the same position. This trade is not executable in Madden it's so bad.

If Marty Hurney pulled this crap, I would boycott the team until his ass were fired. 

Honestly, I didn't realize that he was so old. That makes a difference in how I see things. 

[mc52beast]

O’Brien keeps f’ing up and the team keeps making the playoffs... can’t say the same thing about Hurney

[top dawg]

1 minute ago, mc52beast said:

O’Brien keeps f’ing up and the team keeps making the playoffs... can’t say the same thing about Hurney

The Texans were a better team, and we had insurmountable injuries. 

I know many people want to make our woes about Hurney, but I can only blame him so much. I'm looking ahead!

Going forward, Rhule will get his fair share of credit or blame, as will Tepper! I think that the battle that the Huddle will have is being patient and getting the big picture.

[Mr. Scot]

It might make a little more sense now.

Quote

Texans coach and General Manager Bill O’Brien was eager to trade away wide receiver DeAndre Hopkins, and Hopkins is apparently eager to play for a different coach as well.

Hall of Fame wide receiver Michael Irvin relayed this morning on ESPN a discussion that Hopkins told him he had with O’Brien. According to Hopkins, O’Brien sat Hopkins down to talk to him about life and brought up Aaron Hernandez, who played for O’Brien in New England and was later convicted of murder.

“The last time I had to have a meeting like this, it was with Aaron Hernandez,” Hopkins says O’Brien told him, according to Irvin.

Hopkins was not pleased with that comment.

“That blew my mind that he would even bring that up,” Hopkins told Irvin. “I’ve never been in any trouble. I don’t know why he would equate me with Aaron Hernandez.”

Irvin also says that O’Brien questioned how Hopkins was living his personal life.

“He told DeAndre he doesn’t like that he has his baby mommas around sometimes. And from there I think the relationship just went bad,” Irvin said.

Irvin: O'Brien comments offended Hopkins

To the Texans ownership who thought giving Bill O'Brien full power was a smart move...

...good call