The NFL’s offseason wheeling and dealing is in full force, and the Houston Texans and Arizona Cardinals have jumped out in front of the current pigskin musings with a trade that involved wide receiver DeAndre Hopkins and running back David Johnson.
The #AZCardinals are receiving WR DeAndre Hopkins in the deal for David Johnson, source said. Bill O’Brien and his crew at it again.
— Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) March 16, 2020
What would have been a head-scratcher of a deal had the sports world not been locked in a room with the entire family fighting over the mobile devices and television remote has now intensified from a ‘topical depression’ into a social media hurricane.
It began with the Cardinals’ Patrick Peterson crafting a near-perfect tweet, summarizing the magnitude of the deal without going over the 140-character limit:
.@K1 + @LarryFitzgerald + @DeAndreHopkins = PROBLEMS
— Patrick Peterson /P2 (@P2) March 16, 2020
From there, the good, the bad, and the insightful thoughts and reactions (the memes) from around the sports world landed in the Twitter cosmos.
Man we need start drug testing some of these GM’s and coaches lol #questionablemoves
— Cam Heyward (@CamHeyward) March 16, 2020
WHAT!!??
— Jalen Ramsey (@jalenramsey) March 16, 2020
lol ob is drunk
— feeno (@ArianFoster) March 16, 2020
Every team should be on the phone trying to steal all of the Texans players. Might be able to get JJ Watt for some toilet paper
— Jeff Allen (@JeffAllen71) March 16, 2020
— Kenny Stills (@KSTiLLS) March 16, 2020
Smfh.
— Tyrann Mathieu (@Mathieu_Era) March 16, 2020
All my life i thought i had 20/20 vision until i read this….gotta be me right cuz i kno this don’t say what i think it says https://t.co/VJxGSkjBOu
— Darius Slayton (@Young_Slay2) March 16, 2020
texans traded a killer 🤦🏽♂️ @DeAndreHopkins tuned in AZ gang 💪🏽💪🏽
— Ja Morant (@JaMorant) March 16, 2020
Kyler Murray now has Larry Fitzgerald and DeAndre Hopkins.
They have a combined 2,010 career receptions.
— Andrew Siciliano (@AndrewSiciliano) March 16, 2020
O’Brien: with these hands, I will trade away the best WR still in his prime and bring home a RB who hasn’t topped 3.7 YPC since 2016 pic.twitter.com/bnk1BvjKMx
— Warren Sharp (@SharpFootball) March 16, 2020
Bill O'Brien and Steve Keim talking about the DeAndre Hopkins & David Johnson trade pic.twitter.com/qazfXWpIz6
— Kyle Yates (@KyleYNFL) March 16, 2020
honestly if Bill O’Brien would have called me offering DeAndre Hopkins for David Johnson I would have assumed it was a prank and hung up so credit to Steve Keim for having faith and keeping the line open https://t.co/iV2sauD7TZ
— Bill Barnwell (@billbarnwell) March 16, 2020
I love how Bill O’Brien used the slowest sports news cycle ever to trade DeAndre Hopkins and successfully piledrive his own approval rating into the Earth’s core
— Pablo S. Torre (@PabloTorre) March 16, 2020
How do you trade Deandre Hopkins!? 🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️
This how Deshaun Watson gonna look at Bill O’Brien soon as he see’s him:
— Emmanuel Acho (@thEMANacho) March 16, 2020
Of course, there is this guy…
.@ShannonSharpe: "I love this move for the Cardinals, I’m shocked the Texans would move on from D-Hop this soon." pic.twitter.com/Z4hOfyRdxt
— UNDISPUTED (@undisputed) March 16, 2020
And this guy…
WHAT WERE THE TEXANS THINKING GIVING AWAY DEANDRE HOPKINS??? pic.twitter.com/bgb9Yusaxd
— Skip Bayless (@RealSkipBayless) March 16, 2020
Deshaun Watson having lunch, finding out his team tossed DeAndre Hopkins to the Cardinals in the David Johnson trade pic.twitter.com/iAbsPSibAZ
— BetOnline.ag (@betonline_ag) March 16, 2020
Bill O’Brien: “We’re trading DeAndre Hopkins.”
Deshaun Watson: pic.twitter.com/pXVAXRNvod
— NFL Memes (@NFL_Memes) March 16, 2020
The best Faux Account take goes to:
Report: “The Cardinals are trading David Johnson to the Texans”
NFL fans: “Okay, interesting deal.”
Report: “They’re getting DeAndre Hopkins back in return.”
NFL fans: pic.twitter.com/CF1z6ymDVq
— NOTSportsCenter (@NOTSportsCenter) March 16, 2020
Was this 2017 snippet from NFL Films a precursor to today’s news?
An @AZCardinals coach said this to @DeAndreHopkins in 2017…
Now in the 2020 season he’ll be catching TD passes from @k1 🔥 pic.twitter.com/UdYen4pPIA— NFL Films (@NFLFilms) March 16, 2020
How will this deal play out? That remains to been, as usual. But this tweet from SportsCenter does paint (or, probably burn into the minds of the Texans fan base) what was lost and gained:
🏈 4x Pro Bowler
🏈 3x All-ProGet ready Arizona, @DeAndreHopkins is on the way!
(via @NFL) pic.twitter.com/3444i3ytLL
— SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) March 16, 2020