seattle trying to unload houshmandzadeh

[ace63]

The Seattle Seahawks like their emerging wide receivers and have made it know that veteran T.J. Houshmandzadeh, a top free-agent signing by their prior regime in 2009, is available, league sources said Thursday.



The market for Houshmandzadeh is very limited, according to the sources, for the same reason the Seahawks are looking to move him -- his salary. Houshmandzadeh is guaranteed to earn more than $7 million this season and is coming off an unproductive year. Executives with teams that are in the market for receivers say they have no interest in taking on Houshmandzadeh's contract.

[Manwithplan]

Send T.J. Horsemaneur to the paster, he's done.

[ace63]

He should have stayed in cinci. But he looked good on camera, but not many know he was a cancer in the locker room .
It was me me me. Not a team player. No one wants his contract after a real bad year.

[dazed&confused]

Tell the Seacrows to cut him. Mike will pick him up for the right price for Cleveland!

[Orange and Brown]

Someone will pick him up and he will have a good season.

[2trap_4ever]

He would make a good possession receiver for a team, not a number one receiver but probably a two or three.

[farmer]

He is a good WR but will drop an easy one at times. With the money he made on this contract he could afford to accept a lower 1 year contract but he would have to earn a bigger contract.

[bigtimehitter]

Signed a one year contract with the Ravens

[farmer]

Ravens are stockpiling talent on the offensive side. They may need that if Ed Reed misses a lot of games this year.

[ace63]

Signed a one year contract with the Ravens

For 885,000.00 far less than the 40 mill promised from seattle.

[JChipwood]

That's a steal! He has aged but when moved from Cinci, he was without question Cinci's best reciever and much more dependable than Ocho at catching balls consistantly and running the underneath stuff that made the offense work. When he left they got noticeably weaker on offense and are still recovering from that, no one suffered more than Carson from his move. IMO, he will help the Ravens win the afc north.

[ace63]

That's a steal! He has aged but when moved from Cinci, he was without question Cinci's best reciever and much more dependable than Ocho at catching balls consistantly and running the underneath stuff that made the offense work. When he left they got noticeably weaker on offense and are still recovering from that, no one suffered more than Carson from his move. IMO, he will help the Ravens win the afc north.

With TJ on the team that is all ready loaded, 2 out of 3 on mike and mike said ravens are going to superbowl too.
The other picked jets. I think ravens weakness will be the defense this year. Other teams just need the out score them.

[ace63]

housh o catches, o yards.

[YOU'RE TIGER BAIT]

i will tell you why he might have had an attitude, he was at the time outplaying robin, and he was making 2 million , to robin's which was just wrong. love to have him, but if we don't have a stable of recievers now, who does. and cut a couple good ones as well.

[ace63]

Housh made some bad comments about bengals before game. After game he said he likes players , but not anyone in front office as a whole. He was trouble in seattles locker room too. That was the main reason he was let go.

[ace63]

It is all a matter of perception. Same guy, different view.

In Cincinnati, where he worked his way up from a seventh-round pick, to almost getting cut by new head coach Marvin Lewis, to becoming Palmer’s most reliable target, to a Pro Bowl running mate for The Ocho, Houshmandzadeh was seen as a smart, candid, hard-working team guy who didn’t mind that his former college teammate got the spotlight.

But in Seattle, where he had No. 1 numbers and No. 1 money, the spotlight did a strange thing. The candor became portrayed as cancer. Smart became conniving. Speaking out to the coaches to lobby his ideas became an act of defiance instead of leadership.

As Houshmandzadeh said this week, he was amazed that his reputation took such a shot in one year.

Same guy?

Pretty much.

Now, there’s no question his volatile personality got him in trouble with the Bengals coaches. His clashes with Lewis about cutting back practice were legendary and offensive coordinator Bob Bratkowski had to smile last week when he was asked about how difficult he was.

“We got him out of some habits,” he said.

There may be too much water under the bridge, now, but the bottom line is they knew Houshmandzadeh. He might have been difficult at times, but, in the end, they offered him the kind of money he was seeking. They knew he was a gamer and a fierce competitor that made them a better team.

In the end, of course, everyone learned a lesson and Houshmandzadeh was so candid about that last week, wasn’t he? Houshmandzadeh found out that the Bengals and their fans accepted him for what he is, volatility and all, while the Seahawks and Seattle saw it all so differently.

And, no doubt, if the Bengals knew in August of ’08 that Laveranues Coles and Antonio Bryant would not pan out, they may very well have offered the money then instead of in March.

What’s it all mean?

It means that on Sunday, Houshmandzadeh should get a rousing welcome at Paul Brown Stadium. Bengaldom figures to stand as one and honor long and loud one of the key figures that helped legitimize the franchise. Think of all those third-down catches, the red-zone touchdowns, the long balls against Pittsburgh and Baltimore, the fierce pride that might have stepped on some toes but also won some big games.

Welcome back, Housh. Thanks for the memories.