Monday, August 10, 2009
TJ Houshmandzadeh
TJ was on Jim Rome is Burning...... for some reason he believes that he became the #1 WR while he was in Cincinnati. According to him he was the go to guy...... Motherf**cker please! He is bullshittin, I'm glad he got paid but there is no way he puts up those stats when he sees double coverage for the first time this season.
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there are a couple of ways of looking at this....
ReplyDeleteso lets say he strictly benefited from johnson sucking up coverage, he is still bound to put up decent numbers because he is their only option in seattle (devery henderson has numbers when colston is out; he is the only option)....so he will get more passes thrown to him even if he isn't worthy of the no. 1 spot.
there are multiple wr duos that have had two no. 1s...boldin/fitz, harrison/wayne, bruce/holt, carter/moss...it happens. the thing that usually slows one part of the duo and thus leading to the master passing the student are age and injury as you can somewhat see with these guys i mentioned (also mushin and smith ~5 yrs ago with the panthers). i do believe johnson is consistently better than tj but the delta is not like rice/taylor or owens/crayton....tj/chad is more like jimmy smith/keenan mccardell....jimmy was better but keenan wasn't a bum and was a 1.5 wr until age sinked in. i think tj is a 1.5 like guy; he has seen some double coverage especially those times when chad and chris henry were not even playing. regardless he is still more talented than the hamburgular (both in the sense of his former diet and ROBBING the falcons) even if the numbers don't support it. from 2005-7 (3 yrs) he avg'ed 9.2 TDs a season to trump people's perception that roddy did something by avg'ing 6.5 over 2 seasons.
http://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/H/HousTJ00.htm
maybe he has a slight ego....
ReplyDeletehttp://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/blog/shutdown_corner/post/T-J-Houshmandzadeh-rsquo-s-ego-has-him-boycotti?urn=nfl,177838
I'll give you that he was a #1.5 WR but I think there is/was more distance between Chad and TJ than Jimmy Smith and Keenan McCardell.
ReplyDeleteAs much as ESPN analysts love to rag on Ocho Cinco he commands double coverage all the time. "Chad is a distraction, he's not focussed, he's not the player he was..... then why do teams still double him?