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And this is the player if we were to lose him, it would cripple our offense? WOW. We know one thing before the first preseason practice ~ Hayden Hurst can't possibly be worse at blocking, so if he's even close to Hooper in receiving stats, we're way ahead of last year's performance at TE.

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Listen man... Im not about to sit here and knock Hoop because he is not here... I hate when fans do that..... I will say this tho... Ive always felt like he was a good TE but i think the fit in this team (Teams focusing on Julio and now ridley and the run game) with Matt Ryan developing a good QB to TE relationship help him thrive...

Thats why ive always felt that its no way we can pay him the price he would demand... I do think Hurst will also thrive if he stay healthy

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40 minutes ago, atljbo said:

Listen man... Im not about to sit here and knock Hoop because he is not here... I hate when fans do that..... I will say this tho... Ive always felt like he was a good TE but i think the fit in this team (Teams focusing on Julio and now ridley and the run game) with Matt Ryan developing a good QB to TE relationship help him thrive...

Thats why ive always felt that its no way we can pay him the price he would demand... I do think Hurst will also thrive if he stay healthy

Not talking about you personally but this whole board does that. Whether it’s freeman Beasley Riley. Because it’s Hooper now some are saying to stop criticizing. 

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2 minutes ago, GrimeyKidd said:

Not talking about you personally but this whole board does that. Whether it’s freeman Beasley Riley. Because it’s Hooper now some are saying to stop criticizing. 

yea.. i dont like talking about guys just because they are gone....

 

I dont think is criticizing saying hoop benefited from the scheme or wasnt worth the falcons spending that that much money....

Doesnt mean he wasnt a probowl TE.... Cant take that away from him but we had to do what we had to do

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13 hours ago, ATLskinjob said:

I don't understand why we gotta hate on a player that worked his butt off for this team after he's gone. Hooper was a good TE for us and did a lot of work with Matty in the off-season to build chemistry. Just let it go. This is why our players hate our fans.

Its not about the player, its about the internet warriors. People here and on twitter, saying Hooper leaving was a huge mistake, etc etc. They couldnt understand that he was a poor blocker and couldnt stretch the field , but wanted to pay 11mill to the kid. Nope!

 

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17 hours ago, quotemokc said:

Every player misses their assignments sometimes.

What I want to know is what Hooper's good/bad block ratio was.

If these examples are the only ones then its not so bad.

We haven't had a run game in about 3 or 4 years so that's alot of film to watch 

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Let’s see if this impacts people’s view on him.  People around here wrote off Freeman for the rest of his career because of one missed blocked, which you could tell he was confused what he was supposed to do on that play, and he was actually a good blocker.  

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