On its face, the Houston Texans’ decision to trade star wide receiver DeAndre Hopkins to the Arizona Cardinals for David Johnson (and picks) looked dumbfounding.
The financials made little sense with Hopkins on a team friendly contract and Johnson — who was benched for Chase Edmonds and Kenyan Drake — getting paid No. 1 running back money. Even when the Cardinals throw in a 2020 second-round pick and a 2021 fourth-round pick, the Texans are still parting with a top 5 wide receiver for an arguably washed running back and low-impact draft selections.
It was an astonishingly bad move from head coach and general manager Bill O’Brien. So bad, in fact, that fans couldn’t make the exact same trade in the Madden video game.
In an effort to show just how bad that trade was, fans entered the agreed terms into Madden. They all got the same result:
DECLINED.
The Madden A.I. must not account for O’Brien. He defies football-sense algorithms.
