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Originally Posted by Chris Meck
That's a good way to get everybody fired.
Hopkins is probably the best player on that whole team when he's healthy. You're not doing dick without him.
If you can't get a haul of picks with which to replace him, you don't move him. It's dumb. Of course, they were dumb to draft Murray, and dumb to pay him, and dumb to hire Kliff, and most everything they do is dumb, really, but trading Hopkins for a fourth round pick is monumentally stupid and gets you fired.
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They can't get fired; they just hired these people.
ARI wants to trade Hopkins; it's a salary dump, according to people around here. They want to dump his salary, and they also need picks to begin the rebuild. Kyler won't play for over half the season is the current outlook in PHX, and the ARI FO is apparently looking at it as a chance to dump some cap and draft some new blood to see what direction they're going to go with Kyler, or not.
Hopkins is the only player they have that's worth more than a pick or two, and creates real space with the cap.
Again, I don't think KC will be able to offer enough to get Hopkins, but someone will pony up enough picks and take over paying most of his salary, and ARI will trade him as soon as that happens.