Trade: [ARI/HOU] DeAndre Hopkins and 2020 4th for David Johnson, 2020 2nd, and 2021 4th

[Hall of Faber]

Texans are getting TB12 and AB. Book it.

 

[Voight]

Diggs just landed a 1st and a 5th. Also a swap of a 6th from BUF and a 7th from Minny.

just huh?

Vikings get better picks and cap space from their trade.

Which kills me because Houston wanted to get a 1st round pick back and somehow didn't even though Hopkins is clearly a better player than Diggs.

 

[Unholy Diver]

Yeah this was a bad deal to start with and the Diggs deal makes it look worse

 

[Hasbro]

What is it that Belichick does to his coordinations egos?!

 

[BigMac1212]

Arizona committed highway robbery. That's all I have to say.

 

[MMC]

 

[CHfan1]

I’d just like to know how a trade this bad comes together. How that first initial conversation went.

 

[CHfan1]

Nah - it's not even the worst trade ever in the NFL.

I know that trade was obviously horrible in hindsight. How was it viewed at the time of the trade.

Walker had just put up over 2000 rushing+receiving yards the season before (his 3rd season) and running backs were highly valued.

This trade seconds after everyone wondered what in the actual ****. Houston got absolutely robbed here. They took on a negative value contract and got a 2nd round pick for one of the best receivers in the game still in his prime, that’s absolute insanity.

That same day Diggs got traded for a package that was worth way way more.

 

[BigMac1212]

EA Sports: This trade isn't in the game.

 

[Unholy Diver]

EA Sports: This trade isn't in the game.

They got the picks backwards didn't they? It was Johnson, a 2 & 4 for Hopkins & a 4

 

[Voight]

EA Sports: This trade isn't in the game.

Well when OBJ gets a 1st. Hopkins should.

When Brandin Cooks gets a 1st, Hopkins MOST definitely should.

 

[Hasbro]

I know that trade was obviously horrible in hindsight. How was it viewed at the time of the trade.

Walker had just put up over 2000 rushing+receiving yards the season before (his 3rd season) and running backs were highly valued.

Really it was his 6th season.

The problem with judging the trade by contemporary accounts is the picks were conditional on the Cowboys no longer having those players Jimmy Jonson conned the Vikings making them think he was interested in the active guys when it was just a charade to get the picks.

 

[rt]

What does this deal look like in hockey terms? Nick Schmaltz for Tyler Seguin?

 

[LT]

What does this deal look like in hockey terms? Nick Schmaltz for Tyler Seguin?

Jamie Benn for David Pastrnak?

 

[John Price]

 

[Voight]

Jamie Benn for David Pastrnak?

Probably this - a guy who had a 2 or 3 season stretch where he was one of the best in the league who is now a shell of his former elite self in exchange for a top young player.

 

[YoSoyLalo]

What does this deal look like in hockey terms? Nick Schmaltz for Tyler Seguin?

Hopkins is a lot better than Seguin

I'd say it'd be like if Chicago traded Kane for Wayne simmonds

 

[CHfan1]

 

[Evincar]

There are a few RB’s the Texans could have signed that are at least on DJ’s level. And they wouldn’t have required trading Hopkins.

I wonder if BoB is aware of that.

I wonder if BoB was aware that he already had a pretty good RB with the initials DJ on the roster before making this trade.

 

[Shockmaster]

So uh..... why did Houston trade a WR the caliber of Hopkins for a RB again?

 

[John Price]

So uh..... why did Houston trade a WR the caliber of Hopkins for a RB again?

cause B ill dum

 

[LT]

So uh..... why did Houston trade a WR the caliber of Hopkins for a RB again?

Because BoB couldn't stand the idea of losing yet another contract negotiation with one of his players. We should've fired him before allowing him to trade Hopkins.

 

[Rodgerwilco]

Seeing what Hopkins is doing with Kyler Murray just really proves what we all already knew. This trade was an absolute shit show.