Haywood Jeffires, thought we knew better than this Congrats to Andre Johnson. Once the Texans have a winning season & play a playoff game, he'll get some points toward the all time Houston greats list All time I have in order Campbell, Matthews, Moon, Munchak, Bethea AJ can get to #3. Matthews is too damn studly & Earl's too legendary. Mario Williams has potential to be the best Houston defensive player
They were debating on NFL Today about who is the best receiver in the game between Andre Johnson and Larry Fitzgerald. Bill Cowher was adamantly giving the nod to AJ while the others were giving it to Larry Fitzgerald. I know on this board and in Houston it's unanimous that it's AJ, but it's hard to go against Fitzgerald and how he consistently makes ridiculous plays. So I'd have to say Fitzgerald and AJ a very very close second. Thoughts?
Fitzgerald is also more of a red zone threat then AJ and that shows as he has 13 more touchdowns in 1 season less than AJ. Now that may not be AJ's fault as for some reason the Texans don't throw him as many jump balls as the Cardinals do with Fitzgerald resulting in the discrepancy. But those are the stats.
How about the fact that the Cards air the ball out in general way more than the Texans and always have? AJ had Carr, Fitz had Warner/Leinart for all except his rookie year. And AZ has more redzone attempts since Fitz came in the league: 252-230 Just throwing out # of TDs without looking at the rest of the package doesn't say that Fitz is better. AJ had more catches and yards than Fitz this year. Therefore he's better. Does that argument work? It shouldn't on its own.. but that's what you're throwing out there.
Speaking of which, why don't the Texans do this more? I only remember two jump balls being thrown to AJ in the red zone this year, both ended up as touchdowns (Bears and Titans). Considering how bad we are in the red zone, you would think this would be Plan A...strange.
