Bet his hog is HUGE.

Almost as huge as the average ChiefsPlanet member's hog (12 inches).

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The Chiefs are just trolling everyone. Wait until Hopkins is playing 50+ snaps a game LMAO

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Rice isn't coming back. Stop that.

But I bet the Chiefs have a separate set of postseason plays they've been practicing all year no one has ever seen.

Probably mostly third and long, redzone stuff.

OMG, we really are trying to preserve that higher draft pick, aren’t we? Lmfaooooooo

I think it is a combination of that and not wanting to tip their hand on too much with Hopkins, and wanting to keep him healthy.

The Chiefs cannot afford to lose Hopkins.

Ran by this today. This makes a lot of sense and I think is the answer we are looking for when both Hopkins and Worthy aren’t on the field for some 3rd downs.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">DeAndre Hopkins has been here for a month. Andy Reid has a 400-page playbook. He hasn&#39;t repped and worked his way into every single play and position yet.<br><br>My presumption would be the Chiefs called a play that he hasn&#39;t repped. They are playing the long game with Hopkins. I bet… <a href="https://t.co/H3ujIrlqLD">https://t.co/H3ujIrlqLD</a></p>&mdash; Matt Derrick (@mattderrick) <a href="https://twitter.com/mattderrick/status/1860755073938129359?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 24, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

I don't see the issue with limiting his snaps. He's an old pro, he knows his body, the team knows where he is with the playbook, he's teaching the young guys the day to day, and we don't need to win every game by 20.

Just have him and his body ready to roll fresh plays when the playoffs come. Let him lay it all on the line when it counts. If he blows the knee out at that point no one will care because everyone knows it was his shot at a ring and the team's shot at putting themselves on a list of one.

Cynically, the pick becomes more pricy for us to give away if he has 60% of our snaps per game (according to Twitter, anyway).

Yep. We want that 5th round pick (edit 4th roundpick). We are pacing ourselves, too. We are just trying shit. We know what works. We have a plethora of plays that Reid and Patrick know work like a charm. We also intentionally showed nothing to the Bills because we know we will play them in the playoffs. Reid doesn't like to have much on tape.

Yeah, I think it's much more likely they're pacing him because of the playbook and his injury history. I don't see them sandbagging for a 4th rounder.

I don't think he's injured at all anymore. I read up on that grade of tear and it should have been completely healed by the time we acquired him. Maybe it's something else though because he did sit out the 2nd half of the game before we acquired him...but I think that's more likely that they just didnt want him hurt before traded.

Yeah I'm not saying he's injured so much as he was hurting earlier in the season and they might hold him back a bit to make sure he stays healthy. I just don't buy that they're purposefully holding him back for the difference between a 4th and a 5th.

Then limit the goddamned playbook for a while. My ****ing God, they just did that at the end of the regular season last year after going on a 2-4 stretch and the starting offense had some of their best performances of the season back to back to back against the Bengals, Dolphins, and Bills.

Can't disagree there.