I am not surprised this stuff is coming out.
The Texans got fleeced in the trade and people know that Bill O’Brien is a bad coach and seems to be a worse person. Here is what they are leaked to SI about Hopkins practice habits.
“There was friction with Hopkins inside the organization, and really it had everything to do with Monday-to-Saturday. On Sundays, he was exemplary. The rest of the week, his practice habits (he didn’t practice much at all) became a problem, and because he was such a big star he had the ability to carry teammates in the wrong direction—guys who might not be able to turn it on come game day as easily as he could. And that was, if not easy, manageable. That said, it’s one thing to keep a guy who may not totally align with the program on an existing contract. It’s another to reward him with a new contract with three years left on that deal, and have to handle the message it sends to the locker room. And those intangible elements, by the way, are central to how EVP Jack Easterby is trying to help O’Brien rework the organization.”
This is just unnecessary information to put out there to try to make Hopkins look bad. One thing they don’t say is Hopkins is always banged up because he is taking a beating and that is one of the reasons he doesn’t practice as much.
No different than Julio Jones or any other elite player who they want to make sure is healthy come Sunday.
Bill O’Brien needs to be fired.
Flip the page for Michael Irvin telling the truth about him.