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Originally Posted by Abba-Dabba
The claim was made to me that he was a 1st ballot HOF'er. I said no he isn't.
You chimed in and continued the conversation. He we are.
Again, FTR I'm not opposed to DHop as a player. I'm opposed to where he is in his career, price tag and cost of future draft capital. It's just too rich for my blood for the risk.
So since you live in Arizona and have seen DHop for all the time there. Could there be any bit of hometown bias you're not able to see beyond some of the issues that come with acquiring the guy? Just maybe?
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Lol, dude, i said in the very first post or two that I put in here that I'm not even a big DHop fan. Partly because he was a Texan. Partly because when he first got to AZ, he made a bit of an ass of himself in public, and dissed AZ in general in the process.
But I can see. And since he's become a Card, I've been forced to see him a lot. I've had to admit that he's ridiculously good. That he's definitely elite. There's no getting around that when you watch him play, week after week. Pretending that there's some other reason for his numbers or for the respect he gets around the league or in sport media just doesn't add up after a few games. He's that dude. I don't have to like the guy as a person or because he was an opponent for a while, but I have to be honest about his abilities as a player. Otherwise, I'm just another chucklehead GB fan.
And again, I've said several times I don't think we're getting DHop. He's going to want a new contract, and I doubt we could afford him at that point. But if there was a way, like somehow he plays on his existing contract for two years, he'd pay off in spades.
My only real arguments in this thread have been against the nuts that think he's not good, or wouldn't fit into the offense. It's nonsense.