VIDEO: Michael Irvin Says Bill O'Brien Compared DeAndre Hopkins to Aaron Hernandez in Meeting
By Adam Weinrib
In 48 hours' time, our DeAndre Hopkins trade analysis has gone from "Bill O'Brien got ripped off!" to "Hopkins was SO lucky to get out from under BOB's clutches." Former Cowboys WR Michael Irvin hit ESPN's "Get Up" on Wednesday to recount some tales Hopkins had told him about his experience in Houston, and the way O'Brien reportedly treated him in team meetings and during one-on-one sessions is disrespectful to an astounding degree.
Michael Irvin says DeAndre Hopkins told him that Bill O’Brien pulled him into a meeting and equated him to Aaron Hernandez. Also O’Brien didn’t like Hopkins having his "Baby Mamas" coming around.
— NFL Update (@MySportsUpdate) March 18, 2020
As @mspears96 said, I can't believe what I just heard. pic.twitter.com/WUbEZTGjPm
Per Hopkins (who let his head clear for 24 hours before speaking his truth), O'Brien was mired in a power struggle in the locker room, and believed he was losing control. The two sat down to hash things out, and O'Brien reportedly opened the meeting by saying the last time he'd had a sit-down like this was with Aaron Hernandez.
Come on, BOB. You knew what you were doing. That's a heavy-handed comparison that you just can't make. Scare tactics will get you nowhere.
From there, apparently, a sputtering O'Brien reportedly tried to figure out some way to connect the clean-living Hopkins to trouble, and brought up his numerous "baby mamas" as an example of something that could lead him down the wrong path. The path of...murder, though? Ludicrous.
Even if not fire anyways
— Steelers?Grizzlies? (@pit412mem901) March 18, 2020
With Kyler Murray, Kliff Kingsbury, and Larry Fitzgerald in Arizona, Hopkins is headed to a modern football experience where he can feel protected. He's finally unstuck himself from the football mud in Houston.