six weeks of the Season.
He is suspended for PE D violation. Larry Fitzgerald,
a future Hall of Famer has publicly said in recent days
that Hopkins is still a Hall of Famer. Despite
the PD suspension. Well, look, I don't think he's done enough
to get the Hall of Fame yet. I think he's got more work to do,
I'm with you. But even then, even then
he's got this stain now that
that
will be attached to him and When it's him versus others, in
whatever year, he would be in consideration. It's going to be
hard to wash that stain off because
the other contenders aren't going to have that. It's going
to set him apart in a negative way. So it's going to make it
harder for him to get in. Agree. I mean first of it.
I think your first comment is right. I'm not sure. I'm not
sure it'll for Larry Fitzgerald. Is he's a great
guy. He's not going to ever say anything controversial or mean
he's not. And he's still involved with the Cardinals and
around there, a lot. So again, as much as I want to go. Hey,
Larry said that
Home and I'll are he's a good guy and not going to ruffle
feathers. And and I want to say that to just to add to that.
I'm not sure. DeAndre Hopkins is a Hall of Famer even without
this. I'm not ready to say that in the passing era where we
are. Now, you know, again,
you know, he's you're not going to say he's the best wide
receiver of this era or even this blast decade that we had.
He's been really good. I know that and he's a phenomenal
football player, but I'm not ready to go to Hall of Fame and
then when you add this to it, definitely not.
Not, I mean, you know, me and Mike.
I like DeAndre Hopkins a lot. I know, he's a cool, dude,
but damn, I mean, I'm just
I'm just the, the PE D thing is a,
it's I won't vote for you for it. I won't you're just you're
not getting in. Once you've done that, for me, if I was
Voting and I know, I have no vote, but I'm not doing it.
Well, and the reality is
the way the process works.
It's not just receivers. It's receivers and quarterbacks and
running backs and offense. Medieval everybody's in
the bucket together
and it whittles down from nominees to semi-finalists two
finalists. It's by the time you get to the end,
you are going to stand out in a very bad light in comparison to
the others because the others are going to be clean. The
others are going to be clean because rarely rarely. Do you
see a high-profile player get popped. Anyway, it's going to
be harder
for him to get in.
He's right now, forty third on the all-time receiving yardage
list with 10,500 81 yards and they're very packed together.
Yeah. Yeah, he's only twenty five hundred yards away from
being in the top 20.
Yeah, that's how packed together they are from 2243.
So, you know, in a few years he could start creeping in that
direction. But but this is going to drag him down, and
he's going to miss six games this year at six opportunities.
That's, you know, potentially six. Seven hundred yards. If he
had, you know, decent games we can engineer. Yeah,
it's not going to be easy and you're right. Larry Fitzgerald is
nice guy, too. Nice of a guy
too much of a politician.
To
to careful about everything. He says he's always been that way.
Yes, and as a result, you know what, you know what,
he's he's not interesting. Nice guy. He does not get always
ever says anything interesting, right? He yeah, well, you never
gonna listen to it.
He did that. He did that podcast with Tom Brady and Jim
Gray last year
where the let's go and they would have the Brady component
of Fitzgerald component. I know, Brady was making news on
a regular basis.
Stop playing and Fitzgerald wasn't
the only news Fitzgerald ever made was
continuing to say he's not playing this year. You just never.
It's
if you're going to worry about people being mad at what you
say, you are never going to say anything, interesting. And
that's,
that's Larry Fitzgerald problem. He never wants to say
anything that's going to make anyone upset.
So he's never going to say anything interesting. Yeah,
I think that's where it is. And hey, it's fine to be that way.
He doesn't want to be controversial. He's not looking
to go into that. Line of the, you know, work or
or anything like that. That's fun.
I got no issue that to try to be controversial know, I know
but say what you think I know but you know again, I think
he's yeah, he's garbage. Probably got a relationship
with DeAndre Hopkins and, you know, again, the Cardinals and
all that. So
it gets to a point with, you know, some Superstar guys like
a Larry Fitzgerald or a Brady or some of those. And that's
why it's going to be interesting with Brady, and fox
and all that is.
Yeah. They're they're always worried about, you know, how
it's going to look and feeling. So, when them Do say something
that
there's sometimes no merit to it because you're like, I'd be,
you know, who cares. I mean, I've got 27 other examples of
him kind of saying, you know, other BS over here that I know
is not exactly true where he doesn't really think that
behind the scenes
and that's where it loses Merit.
I think it's easier to criticize coaching decisions
than it is to criticize players. Definitely. And
I think that that's so I think if there's criticism of
the players, I think Brady's going to find a way to shade it
toward well.
He wasn't properly prepared for this situation. They shouldn't
have one of the coaches. Uh, all right, here's what they
should have told him. So I think there's a way to do it
where you're not criticizing the abilities of player, you're
criticizing the preparation
that was put into getting the player ready to make the right
decision at the right time and perform the right way.