Originally Posted by dlphg9:
Lol Hopkins isn't going to be close to 1000 yds and 10 TDs. He will be lucky to have 400 yds and 5 TDs. He's not close to the same player he was even last year.
Originally Posted by Straight, No Chaser:
Jeeeez-us. Ignite the reality bomb and take a deep breath. This is is not 2018 when he played 16 games. He caught one pass for 6 yards on one target playing 44 snaps (a season high) Sunday with a "Calf-ish, Achilles area" soreness in his lower leg.
He turns 33 in June and he is not the player he was. He's a veteran player which is what the Chiefs wanted. He has to learn to play with Mahomes and they have to get the timing right. The Chiefs had to do something.
Anything is possible. I was trying to give a high and a low optimistic outlook of his potential production, that's all.
However, barring injury, I think 400 yds is way too low. He has 11 games to beat that, and unless they just sit him for several games for some reason, he'll beat that in the next month and a half.
What you guys aren't taking into account is that DHop is a human football vacuum cleaner. If Pat throws the ball anywhere inside his catch radius, it's caught. He might not have the burst he once had, but there's nothing wrong with his hands.
Once Andy/Mahomes get comfortable with what he can do, Nuk will be WR1 and will average 7-10+ targets a game, and he'll catch almost all of them, assuming Pat can put anywhere near him. The whole "he only caught one ball on 44 snaps" thing dismisses the fact that TEN offense is about as simplistic as it gets. The designs aren't that good. And they were having DHop run a ton of clearouts for no reason. And finally, that Will Levis was throwing him the ball.
Hell, watch that clip I posted last night; watch how many times Levis is way late pulling the trigger. How many times he's just off-target. How many times he doesn't even see DHop wide open.
Then ask yourself: if that was Pat throwing in those spots, would he put those on Nuk or not?
Andy won't waste Dhop's snaps like that. His use in this system is going to be a lot more efficient, because Andy is going to move him inside about 50% of the time, instead of putting him outside 70% of the time the way they did in TEN. And Pat isn't going to miss like Levis has been missing, or not see DHop wide the hell open in the middle of the field either.
Dhop caught 75 balls for 1,057yds and 7 TDs last season with Ryan Tannehill, Devito and Levis throwing him the ball in a bad system last year. All while everyone said he was washed, he couldn't run, and he had a mystery MCL injury.
And yet he didn't miss a single game. And somehow the POS managed a pair of 100-yd games and a 3 TD game. While being covered by the opposing team's best DBs and being double and sometimes even tripled covered because Levis mostly just dropped back and chucked it in DHop's direction.
Now he has Andy an Pat. He's going to have a resurgent year if Andy and Pat are even half as good as we all think they are.
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Calling out some good takes here:
-"D-Hop will get involved in the opening drive and we’ll likely try and get him a TD game 1”
-"D-Hop producing 50-60 YDS per game and 5+ TDS the rest of the season is all we neeed”
-“Chiefs offense only really needs key plays from our skill positions when it matters most"
-"D-Hop opens up Kelce and Worthy, can’t lock down all 3 of them!"
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