08-02-2016, 12:04 PM
(07-14-2016, 10:22 AM)fredtoast Wrote: Don't know if we would have won a Super Bowl, but Chad could have put up Hall of Fame numbers if he had focused on his play instead of all the off-field bull crap.
Look at his numbers before '07.
'04...1274 yds
'05...1432
'06...1369
'07...1440
But during the '07 season things go bad and Paul Daugherty writes a story blaming Chad. Some fans also turn against Chad. Chad gets upset that Marvin is not more supportive. He changes his name to Ochocinco" and goes all over the national media trying to cry his way out of Cincinnati. He later admits that he did not lift at any time during that offseason.
Now look at the career of "OchoCinco"
'08... 540 yds
'09...1047
'10... 831
'11... 276
Chad Johnson was a hell of a wide receiver. Chad Ochocinco, not so much. I have to admit that I was hoping he would have a career resurgence, sort of like Randy Moss, in New England. And then he cost himself a couple years in Miami. Hopefully he has some money left.
