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Andre Johnson

Borderline HOFer. Great career even though he played on some crappy Houston teams with crappy QBs for a while. For a 4-5 year period, it was him and Megatron that were the best WRs in football.
 
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Had his jersey on this weekend in South Bend, had some genius Cane fan come up and say: "Yeah, Andrew Johnson." :puzzled:
 
AUcane said:
Borderline HOFer. Great career even though he played on some crappy Houston teams with crappy QBs for a while. For a 4-5 year period, it was him and Megatron that were the best WRs in football.
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Boderline? Lol. That dude is a lock.
 
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Too bad he never had a real QB throwing to him.

Were would he be if he played for NO, SD, NY or Brady?
 
252cane said:
AUcane said:
Borderline HOFer. Great career even though he played on some crappy Houston teams with crappy QBs for a while. For a 4-5 year period, it was him and Megatron that were the best WRs in football.
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Boderline? Lol. That dude is a lock.
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Not sure. Top 10 in yards but going to be passed by a couple guys soon. Don't think top 10 gets you in automatically like it used to. He doesn't have the TDs or the receptions to complement the yards.
 
NE Canes said:
Too bad he never had a real QB throwing to him.

Were would he be if he played for NO, SD, NY or Brady?
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I always try to wonder how dominant Houston's offense could have been with a line to actually protect David Carr..he coulda been great.
 
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AUcane said:
252cane said:
AUcane said:
Borderline HOFer. Great career even though he played on some crappy Houston teams with crappy QBs for a while. For a 4-5 year period, it was him and Megatron that were the best WRs in football.
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Boderline? Lol. That dude is a lock.
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Not sure. Top 10 in yards but going to be passed by a couple guys soon. Don't think top 10 gets you in automatically like it used to. He doesn't have the TDs or the receptions to complement the yards.
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The writers vote. You are already seeing a ton of people in the media saying he will get in. Look what he did with no qb and being drafted by a expansion team. No doubt he gets in. Its not if but when.
 
Really sad that this post gets only two pages. And we average 10 horrible threads a day. Hall of famer. One of the greatest.
 
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only stat that hurts AJ is TD's he's bested in the category by some of his contemporaries like fitzgerald and megatron, i believe he'll get in the hall but probably not first ballot
 
If it wasn't for Santana, dude would be my favorite cane receiver all time.... Dre was the prototypical Wr.... Tall, blazing speed, and great routes
 
Great player, but wish he has stepped out two years ago. That's his call though and he made more money, so why not.
 
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MiamiVice7 said:
Stud.

Man, slowly but surely we're running out of those legends we put in the league during our run.
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This this n this
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Frank Gore, Vince Wilfork final two standing from Miami's glory days - Indianapolis Colts Blog- ESPN

Frank Gore, Vince Wilfork final two standing from Miami's glory days

And then there were two.

The retirement of receiver Andre Johnson, who was with Indianapolis in 2015, has left Colts running back Frank Gore and Houston Texans defensive tackle Vince Wilfork as the only two players still playing in the NFL from the glory days of the University of Miami's football program in the early 2000s.

“That’s it,” Gore said. “Think about all the guys who played together around that time. We were all blessed to have great years. Vince is still playing at a high level.”

Gore, Wilfork and Johnson played at the University of Miami when the Hurricanes were turning out multiple first-round draft picks on a regular basis, players such as Willis McGahee, Clinton Portis, Ed Reed and Jeremy Shockey.

The list goes on and on.

“I just think we’re a different breed,” Gore said. “We competed. We saw the guys before us and we wanted to be them. Wanted to make them happy and keep the legacy up with the ‘U’ guys before us. We saw guys like Michael Irvin, Warren Sapp, Ray Lewis, Reggie Wayne and Edgerrin James making it in the league.”

Johnson, who spent the first part of this season with the Tennessee Titans, retired this week. He was 10th in the NFL in career receiving yards (14,185), ninth in career receptions (1,062) and was a seven-time Pro Bowl selection.

Gore is adamant that Johnson would have put up even better numbers had he played with better quarterbacks during his 12-year career with Texans

Johnson caught passes from the likes of Matt Schaub, Case Keenum, T.J. Yates, Matt Leinart and eight other quarterbacks during his time in Houston.

“That lets you know how special Andre is,” Gore said. “That’s a Hall of Famer. He never had a top guy under center all those years in Houston and he's still a top-10 receiver. That’s big. Look at some guys with the numbers they put up around him and look who their quarterback was.”

Gore has rushed for 532 yards and two touchdowns this season. Wilfork has 16 tackles this season for Houston.
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