 It really is a copycat league, right? Cause I guess the Titans were like, oh, Jaguars. Y'all want to make a blockbuster move? Watch this. So, as y'all know, we've been on DeAndre Hopkins watch for a long time. Ever since it started coming out and rumors started surfacing that he could possibly be traded from the Arizona Cardinals. And then the Cardinals ended all those rumors by releasing DeAndre Hopkins. We've been waiting to see where he was gonna land next. It's been some teams that they said could be interested, should be interested, but the only two that showed significant interest because they actually brought DeAndre Hopkins out were first the Tennessee Titans and then the New England Patriots. Tennessee Titans, they brought him out on his first visit. They flew him out on a private jet. They let him go to the country concert and they just, they showed him love. They showed him a whole lot of love. And then the New England Patriots were like, hold up. Well, anything you can do, well, I don't know if we can do it better right now, but we gonna try. So they brought DeAndre Hopkins out as well and both teams were said to have had great visits and really love what they saw from DeAndre Hopkins. So then it was said that both teams were interested in signing him and then things got quiet. Things that got quiet for a couple of weeks and we were like, okay, what's gonna happen? Me, I was thinking, all right, DeAndre Hopkins, he not going to either one of those teams. He just using those teams for now and using them to drive up his interest, but then somebody else gonna come flying in and then he'll go sign with them. But boy was I wrong, completely wrong because DeAndre Hopkins is officially signing with the Tennessee Titans on a two year deal worth up to $32 million deal with a base of a 26 mil. Now, when we look at the contract, it says that it's a base of 12 mil with incentives to get to 15 mil for the first year. Now, so he's getting paid less than Odell Birkin Jr. But anyway, he is gonna be going back to the AFC South again for the second time with joining the Tennessee Titans. And he'll get to see the Texans at least two times a year. I know there's no bad blood between him and the Texans or anything like that. I mean, he said he still even lives in Houston. So ain't no bad blood, but he'll get to play them at least two times a year. Now, I'm not sure if the Cardinals are on the Titan schedule, but I guess we'll see. Now, with that being said, DeAndre Hopkins, I just hope that this for Tennessee's sake, except when they played the Ravens in week six in London, minus that game, but all the other games do what you wanna do. But I hope for Tennessee's sake that this doesn't end up like Randy Moss with the Titans. Or like Julio Jones with the Titans. And what I mean when I say that is I hope that we don't see that version of DeAndre Hopkins with the Titans. Receivers who were once or at least one point in time in their career, they were the best receiver in the game. Julio Jones was multiple times. And then Randy, of course, Randy Moss definitely was, but I just hope we don't see that version of DeAndre Hopkins. I don't think we will because the thing about DeAndre Hopkins, the thing that he's shown us already is that no matter who's throwing him, literally no matter who's throwing him the ball, he gonna ball out. He gonna show out. He gonna make plays. He gonna come through. This is why I would have loved if my team, my Ravens got DeAndre Hopkins, what? And then I remember when the reports were coming out, the first thing they said, LeMoss, he asked about both Odell Beckham Jr. and DeAndre Hopkins. I'm like, man, LeMoss, I love that thinking. Ask for both of them, let's go. Then reports came out that said that the Ravens were actually close on the deal with DeAndre Hopkins. And that was right before the draft. And then I remember when they drafted Zay Flowers. Again, it was a bittersweet thing for me because I was like, all right, Zay Flowers, cool. Especially he from South Florida. But then I was like, oh, but that's, it's probably the end of DeAndre Hopkins officially. And it was. So, but it's cool. I'm excited to see what the Baltimore Ravens and their receivers do this season. But this video is not about them. This is about the Titans. But again, hopefully for the Titans' sake and DeAndre Hopkins' sake, he can go out there and continue to do his thing. Now we know he is technically past his prime, but that don't mean he can't play. That don't mean he can't play. Just cause he may not be the best. And I mean, who even knows? Cause last year he missed a chunk of time due to suspension. And he missed, I think he missed like a tiny, tiny bit of time with an injury. But the time he missed last year was just majority suspension. DeAndre Hopkins is somebody who primarily been pretty healthy his entire career and just been so consistent. I think he tweeted out, was it like last week or thing? He said, oh, when I'm not a thousand yard receiver, I retire. So, I want to hit the Titans. They sit on their playbook and he's like, yikes, how am I gonna get a thousand yards receiving from this? As then maybe he's thinking about retire. I don't know, but yeah, this should be fun though, but it's gonna be fun. DeAndre Hopkins play for the Titans. Well, I hope that it's fun. I hope that it's fun, but it should be. Because even just last year he was still out there balling. He was still out there doing his thing. He was still out there making plays even the last couple of years for the Cardinals. So whether his quarterback is Ryan Tannehill, whether it's quarterback is Will Leviss, whether it's quarterback is Malik, whoever that quarterback is gonna be when they get that situation, the way that I think it's gonna go, I think it's gonna be Ryan Tannehill first. And then if he struggles, then they'll bring in Will Leviss and get that experiment started. Now, remember in his interview that he did with Brandon Marshall and Ashley Nicole Marshall, I am athlete, it really sounded like DeAndre Hopkins, he wanted a team that was like Super Bowl ready that he felt was Super Bowl ready that he felt like were true contenders right here right now. Cause he ain't got much time in his career left to be wasting time. So I just felt like he would go to like a short thing and the teams that I thought that he was gonna go to, I thought he's gonna go to either the Chiefs or the Beals. Those are the two teams where I felt like, all right, DeAndre Hopkins, he got to go to one of them. But no, and I could have understand if he would, if I could have understood if he would have went to one of those teams cause they've been consistent playoff contenders, the Beals have, the Chiefs have been Super Bowl contenders and Super Bowl winners, literally, they keep playing in the Super Bowl, they keep playing in like every AFC championship, they are the definition of winners. And they even like, he called him a dynasty. I mean, they're like the Golden State Warriors of the NFL right now, they really are. So, but anyway, he, some of the stuff that he said in that interview, it just, it didn't scream Titans to me. And I appreciate my sports update listed though, some of those things he said, stable management. I think then the Titans just get rid of that GM recently. They got a new GM, but even besides that, they got Mike Raebel. Mike Raebel has been a good head coach for them. He's been a, I mean, almost great head coach for them, but he's been really good, especially having dealt with so many injuries over the years, but still having them with good record, still having them fighting, still having them right there in the thick of things. It said, a QB who loves the game. Now, I don't know, Tanner Hill personally, but I think that he does love the game. Reason being because he used to be a wide receiver. Used to be like, he used to play wide receiver. But then he made the switch to quarterback. He went to the dolphins, got paid from them, went to the Titans, got paid from them. So I would definitely think that with all the money that he's made throughout his career, Ryan Tanner Hill been around for a while too. He been around for a while. Ryan Tanner Hill got a like a sneaky long career, man. So I would think that he loves the game. And Will Levitz, now he get the opportunity. He got, he finally got drafted. He had to sit through the whole first round and nothing happened, but then he got drafted in what, the second round, I believe. So I mean, I'm sure he loves the game too. And then Malik Willis, even though all these reports, we keep hearing reports about him that are bad, all these reports saying you're not looking good, that he's probably gonna get cut, this, that and the third. We'll see what happens. I'm not sure he loves the game as well. But with all those reports saying all that stuff about him, that's what training camp's for. So we'll see when we get there. But so yeah, I guess he got a quarterback who loves the game. A quarterback who loved the game for different reasons. But anyway, and it also said a great defense because defense wins championships. So defense, yeah, Titans got that. Titans definitely got that. So now he will take some pressure off of Traylon Burks. That'll help him a lot, but more so off of Derrick Henry. See the thing about Derrick Henry, he is such a great running back to me. Even if over the last year or two, he lost a step or whatnot, I feel like he's still a great running back. Reason being, for me, a great player, an extra great player is somebody who is the focal point of your team. The opposing teams know that this person is going to get the ball. They know that this person, your team lives and dies through this person. But that person, despite that, despite other teams knowing that, despite other coaching staffs or the players knowing that that person's going to get the ball, they still ball out. They still make place. That is a great player to me. So Derrick Henry has been a great player to me for a long time. This alleviates pressure off of him. It really does. And then with the Titans, they can really establish your running game. I know it sounds so cliche. Oh, if they can run the ball, they can pass the ball. You can play action, but you can, especially with a Derrick Henry. Because if Derrick Henry started running the ball good, everybody started loading the box because you need extra bodies to tackle Derrick Henry. And then the Andre Hopkins will be like, hey, I'm one on one. And look, I ain't even got to have much separation. Just throw it up. The 50-50 ball is the Andre Hopkins thing. So he ain't got to burn pass nobody. You're a good runner. You're a great runner. So that's going to be nice for Tanner Hill or Leavis or whoever his quarterback is, it's going to be nice for them. But he could just be, hey, just throw it up to me and I got you. And he's somebody that you can trust. He doesn't drop the ball. He just makes plays, man. He is the definition of no matter who's throwing me the ball, I'm going to make plays happen. We've literally seen that with the Andre Hopkins. We saw him make plays with, especially on the Texans, we've seen him make plays with so many different quarterbacks throughout the years. And it was no coincidence that the Andre Hopkins best seasons came when he had his best quarterback that being the Sean Watson. So it correlated that. That's why I'm just really surprised that the Andre Hopkins went to Tennessee because there ain't no offense to Tennessee and I'm like that. But I just, I did not envision him going to play. I thought, cause he also talked about he wanted to play in an elite quarterback. He also mentioned that. So Ryan Tannehill is not bad. Is he elite? No, he's solid elite. I wouldn't say elite, but I just didn't envision him going there. I really didn't. Just in my opinion, I don't feel like the Titans are a Super Bowl ready, especially like, think about this. If the Titans were truly a Super Bowl ready team, would they be drafting a quarterback in the second round? If they were Super Bowl ready team, I feel like they would already have their quarterback, right? That's just my opinion though. But I feel like they would already have their quarterback. I feel like they wouldn't need to be picking a quarterback so high if they already had that guy. But I don't know. But anyway, the Andre Hopkins, he's there. He's there. So he got a decent amount of money. We mentioned in the previous video that I felt like the Andre Hopkins, he had already made the most money that he was gonna make on a contract in previous contracts before. I didn't feel like he was ever going to top or even match the money that he's made before. And this contract proved that to be true. And that's not a knock on the Andre Hopkins at all. It's not. But I just didn't see him getting the money that he got once before. So, but yeah. Anyway, Team Keeping Clean appreciate y'all. I love y'all. This, the Andre Hopkins watch, it ended a lot different than I thought it would. Because again, I did not see him going to Tennessee. I really didn't. Like I said earlier, I really thought that the Andre Hopkins was, yeah, Tennessee was interested in them. They brought him out there, but I just really thought that he was gonna be like, oh, nah, I ain't interested in them. But just used him to drive up his market, then the Patriots came along, then used him to drive up his market. And I was just waiting for a team to come out of nowhere and swoop in, but nobody ever did. Now I wonder, because we usually do with these type of things, I wonder if we're gonna hear a story maybe in a couple of days or something, talking about, oh, this team over here, they were interested, but they didn't cough up enough money. Cause that's usually how these things go. We usually hear about that. So anyway, Team Keeping Clean, I love y'all. I appreciate y'all. Make sure you leave a like on the video, subscribe to the channel. So you do not miss anything in the NFL. 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