 Look, I get it. I understand the chances of it happening are less than slim. I know it's most likely not gonna go down, but EDC, hit me out, man. If you got anything left, anything left, because I know you like pulling these tricks and whatnot. Hey, if you want to, by all means, I ain't gonna be mad, but anyway. Anyway, we know it's probably not gonna go down. But, so team can be clean. DeAndre Hopkins, this dude got to be the the most chill receiver that I've ever seen have an interview. He was on the I Am Athlete podcast, and he was interviewed by Brandon Marshall and Ashley Nicole Moss. And it was an interesting interview. And one thing I appreciated like from Jump, he talked about protecting his energy because, excuse me, not DeAndre Hopkins, Brandon Marshall and Ashley, they were asking him, like, hey, you don't really do many interviews. We don't really hear from you like that. And I was thinking like, well, yeah, that's true. We don't really hear from DeAndre Hopkins that often. We hear about him. We hear about all these reports and whatnot, but we don't really hear from him directly too often. And he said that's because his mom told him a long time ago, like, go to where, I think he said to where you're needed, not wanted, something like that. And I was thinking, well, hey, as much as Ravens, we could have needed you and wanted you. But anyway, no, I appreciated that because he talked about just, you can't be everywhere. And not everywhere is really gonna appreciate your presence like that. I was thinking, oh, that's very, very true. That was a really good point. So they started it off really nice, but of course, you know, Brandon Marshall and even Ashley, they were asking some good questions, but it got to talking about what's happening with DeAndre Hopkins. They asked him about him training in Arizona and whatnot. They talked about like what's been happening as far as the trade rumors, how he feels about it. And I appreciated it because he acknowledged it. He said, hey, it's a business. It is a business. He didn't take it personally, anything like that. And he named some teams that had, he had confirmed called the Cardinals about him. He named the Beals specifically and the Patriots specifically. So he addressed that and I appreciated it, but listening to the interview, to me it seemed like he was very non-committal to the Cardinals. Very, very non-committal to the Cardinals. There were some times when he did mention the Cardinals, mentioned some players on the team and he like used the phrase like we, but he was still very non-committal. He didn't really sound like, oh yeah, I'm gonna get back to the Cardinals. I'm gonna be with the Cardinals to see how I can't wait. Because if you remember, I take you back like maybe like a month and change ago to where obviously all the rumors about DeAndre Hopkins being traded was going crazy, as y'all know. But then I think it was right after the draft. It was either right before, right after the draft where there was a video. He was like, who said I want to go somewhere? Who said I wanted to leave? So then it was like, oh, DeAndre kind of put everything to rest, but in this interview, I think you walk everything back up, in my opinion. So again, watch it for yourself so you can see. But anyway, he was also asked about one Lamar Jackson. Because we all heard the reports and rumors and all that that Lamar Jackson asked for both him and Odell Beckham Jr. But he was asked how he felt about Lamar Jackson and how it would have been to playing with Lamar Jackson. And let's just listen to what he had to say about Lamar Jackson. He also got thrown into the mix during Lamar and then that Baltimore saga again. And it was reported that you and Odell Beckham were two names that Lamar threw out there and said, if you guys want to make me happy and you want me back. That would have made us happy too. He got Odell. The Baltimore Ravens reportedly said we can't afford to get you both in a perfect world if you were able to make that situation work. Would you, would that be intriguing to you? Did you hear about Lamar's request? I love Lamar Jackson. I do too. Lamar Jackson is one of my favorite athletes. Mine too. Since I've been watching sports, I'm a sports fan. So I was watching Lamar when he played Clemson, my alum now. And I was like, who is this kid? So I've been a fan of Lamar for a long time. So, you know, obviously he's one of the greatest. And, you know, I would be lying to sit here and say, you know, it wouldn't be an honor one day, you know, if my career allows me to play that long to play with a great guy and a great quarterback like Lamar. Or, you know, with Tom Brady, I was like, I want to play with Tom Brady. I'm a receiver. You know, Mars, you know how it is. That's right. You want to play, you want to play with some of the best quarterbacks. You know, this up there and Lamar is obviously one of those. All right. Now I really appreciated that. And I feel like DeAndre Hopkins, like he was being very careful with his words in this interview. Cause Brandon Marshall brought up a really good point, which happens all the time. He talked about later on in an interview how people can take a clip. They can take one little quick soundbite or something that he says from the interview and they can take it and they can run with it. And they may not have the full context. So you may not get the full meaning. So DeAndre Hopkins was extremely careful with his words. He did not want to say the wrong thing. Didn't not want to say anything that would offend anybody or that would sound too controversial, anything like that. But when he was asked about Lamar Jackson, I feel like it was cool. He gave a nice answer that he would be honored to play with a quarterback like Lamar Jackson. And then he spoke about Lamar Jackson later on in the interview as well. But what I really appreciated about that part right there is that when he mentioned it being an honor if he would have been able to play with Lamar Jackson at some point in his career, he didn't do it in Tom Brady. And to me, what it seemed like to me is that like those are some guys, and I mean, he mentioned Tom Brady as somebody he would have wanted to play a receiver for. But to mention Lamar Jackson and Tom Brady in the same answer, in the same response. I'm not saying Lamar Jackson is Tom Brady. Obviously, I mean, nobody's Tom Brady, nobody accomplished even like half of what Tom Brady done accomplished in the league. But and now he got what he own part of the Raiders now. I was like, man, he just, he just can't get away from Jimmy Garoppolo, man. Leave him alone, Tom. Anyway, for the Andre Hopkins to mention Lamar Jackson and Tom Brady in his response, to me, I thought that was special. Maybe I'm taking too much from it. I don't know, but I just, I thought that was significant in my opinion. Now, as some other points to the interview, he was also asked about his top five, top five, top five. Like, what quarterbacks would you want to be catching some passes from? Who would it be? His first answer took him a little bit, but then he said, Josh Allen. Josh Allen, so okay, I'll get it. Then he said, Jalen Hertz. He brought up Patrick Mahomes Brandon Marsh was like, oh yeah, of course. And then he was like, but this next guy, this next guy is very underrated. A lot of people sleeping on him and whatnot as a quarterback and as a passer, that's Lamar Jackson. So the thing is like, it's one thing if you're asked directly about a player, like Ashley asked him earlier, hey, you heard all the stuff where Lamar said he wanted O'Dell Beckham Jr. and you and that would have made him happy. So he was asked directly about Lamar Jackson then. So it's like, all right, he answered directly. His response was a response directly about Lamar Jackson. But in this question, he was just asked, hey, who are five quarterbacks that you would want to catch passes from? And he named four other ones. So he didn't have to say Lamar Jackson. He didn't have to bring up Lamar Jackson's name at all, but he did. So that's when for me, like with the Tom Brady thing, that made it real for me. But then with this, with him doubling down on Lamar Jackson and throwing him in there again, he didn't have to, wasn't asked directly about him. I was like, oh, okay, De'Andre. Hey, EDC, like, look, man, if team keeping clean, if we come together, we all like, we do a little GoFundMe or something to try to fund De'Andre Hopkins in his contract or something. Maybe we could come up with a good $343. And we can send that to EDC and try to make something happen. But so EDC, just let me know, please do, just in case. But anyway, now something else that he was asked about, what would he be looking for if he were to go to a new team? So I'm like, ma'am, he's answering these questions. And again, very non-committal to the Cardinals in this interview, very non-committal. He brought up the new GM and whatnot, the new regime that they have at the Cardinals. And he talked about how, like, it's a business with a new regime, it's new coaches and whatnot. But he said that what he would want would be stable management. And then he said, I haven't had that the last couple of years. Now, while that's true, and I appreciate the straightforwardness, again, that's a big thing to say about your team. Non-committal to the Cardinals. That's what I took from this interview. So after this interview, I'm like, man, I don't think he gonna be there no more. He ain't like take no, well, I mean, he didn't really take no shots at the organization now because, again, they do have a new regime. So he was talking about the previous regime. But again, he said he wanted stable management. I think Baltimore, pretty stable, I would say. He want a QB who loves the game. Now this part too, I'm like, man, the idea, Andre, you pushing in now, my friend. Because when he said that he wanted a QB that loved the game, and he talked about, what he said, oh, when he talked about Kyle Murray, because he said, oh, right now, my quarterback is, he said, I'm paraphrasing, but he was saying this quarterback is Colt McCoy. And he said that he played with a lot of quarterbacks, played with a lot of subpar quarterbacks too, so he can get it done with anybody. But he said that Kyle Murray does love the game. He said that Kyle Murray loves the game and he loves it so much. He said Kyle Murray loves the game just as much as he does. He said that they, with their love of the game, because of their love of the game. That's why he feels like they butted heads a couple of times and whatnot. But he said Kyle Murray's got that love, but he said right now Kyle Murray is injured. So basically saying that that's not his quarterback right now. And it was just really weird because normally, even if a quarterback is injured, especially it's off season, like season ain't even started yet. It'd be one thing if we was in the middle of the season and he would say, oh, like Kyle Murray, that's not my quarterback because he is hurt, right? But this is the off season. So he would think like, he'd be like, oh yeah, when Kyle gets back, oh yeah, we're gonna run it up. Oh yeah, when Kyle is back, or Kyle, that's my quarterback Kyle Murray, that's cool. And he did give Kyle his respect and whatnot as accolades and all that good stuff and praise and whatnot. But I just thought it was just a little strange when he did that. Again, listen to the interview for yourself. And then he talked about, he also wants a team with a great defense because defense wins championships. Defense is help. They certainly help. But yeah, you got to score points too. But yeah, it's a good, you need a good combination of both. But he did talk about, where he felt like the Cardinals, they got a good defense right now. And Brandon Marshall was like, hold up, ain't Baker just, Buddha Baker just export trade? But the other half was like, hey, he's still on the rise as far as I know. And I said, okay, DeAndre, I see you. But with those things, like the things that DeAndre Hopkins named, you can find all those things with Baltimore Rangers. A stable management, they're pretty stable. A QB who loves the game. I would say Lamar Jackson got a lot of love for the game. A great defense because defense wins championships. Hey, like, you just, like DeAndre, you ain't got a bag to come to the Rangers, but he ain't got a bag. I mean, if I ain't gonna have it no more, and now unless, because Brandon Marshall, he talked about this. He said, when he's with the Jets, he said there was talks about him being traded, but he said he talked to management and whatnot. And I was like, hey, just release me. Just release me so I can do this on my own. I can find my next team and whatnot. Now, if that happened with DeAndre Hopkins, then I'm just, just putting it out there. Ravens could come up with their own contract for DeAndre Hopkins and throw him in. But anyway, it's probably not gonna happen. It probably ain't gonna happen, but still. But anyway, this was a fun interview to listen to. I appreciated it. I loved it. And, oh, the other quarterback who DeAndre Hopkins' name was Justin Herbert. But this is how I can tell DeAndre Hopkins is so chill. Because this dude, he called, he said, oh, the guy in the quarterback for the San Diego, over there in San Diego for the Chargers. I said, you like me? Slipping up and still calling him San Diego? They done moved to Los Angeles, what, two, three years ago on, or how long it's been. But yeah, it was tough getting rid of San Diego Chargers, getting rid of saying that name, getting that out of your vocabulary. What, DeAndre Hopkins, you in the NFL, you in the league, and still calling him San Diego Charter? Hey, I love it. I love it, because that, again, that just showed how chill he was to me. But anyway, I'm excited to see where DeAndre Hopkins ends up going. If I had to guess, right, especially right now, after the draft and everything, I really thought it was gonna be the Ravens, but that obviously they ain't looking like it's going down. I don't think that he probably ends up on the Bills. I don't think he goes over to the Bills. Now, would that be what Stefan did? Staying or going, I think it would be with him staying. I think Bills would find a way. So, but we'll see, we'll see. We won't know till we know. But I love y'all team, keep it clean. I appreciate you all. And like DeAndre Hopkins is going to be soon. When that, well, in my opinion, would I think he'll be soon when it comes to being a member of the Arizona Cardinals? We out.