01-25-2025, 11:00 PM
(01-25-2025, 08:32 PM)Frank Booth Wrote: tee is most certainly top 20 when healthy. This is what im talking about
and then you say Green wasnt elite. Enough, bro. Green was elite for a 3 year stretch
AJ Green receiving yards ranking by year...
2011: 17th
2012: 10th
2013: 5th
2014: 20th
2015: 8th
2016: 28th
2017: 12th
He looked like he was going to be after 2013, but never recaptured or built upon that season. AJ Green was extremely good, but there's no way you're putting him in the same category as Calvin Johnson, Antonio Brown, Julio Jones. Those guys are clearly in a different tier.
You brought up 3-year stretch, but even his 3-year stretch wasn't as good as the best 3-year stretch of Demaryius Thomas, Dez Bryant, Wes Welker, Andre Johnson, or Odell Beckham who were all roughly his peers.
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Now you look at Chad Johnson....
2003: 4th
2004 6th
2005 3rd
2006: 1st
2007: 3rd
...and that looks different than AJ's. Got a couple 1st Team All-Pros in there, too.
In my personal opinion two things kept AJ from being elite and putting up elite numbers.
1. He struggled against physical press coverage. (Joe Haden was his kryptonite because of that and he had to play him 2 games a year.)
2. His loss of concentration on routine catches leading to far too many drops. He could make outrageous circus catches with the best of them, but then he would drop a couple balls that hit him right in the hands and chest.
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