Johnson played 24 more games than Green as a Bengal, He had 1,353 more receiving yards, 102 more catches and one more TD catch. Between 20, Green missed 29 games because of injuries. No making his teammates wait to celebrate him until he’d finished his little, solo one-act play. Green was also freakishly good at not acting like he was freakishly good. Receiving Yards from Deep Passes (20+ YIA) from 2011-2017 1. “AJ, go deep as fast as you can, I’ll throw it as far as I can and you catch it.’’ The bombs Dalton called in the huddle seemingly were scripted like this: I always said Dalton should have begun each season by giving Green half his paycheck. Green was a freak for his ability to dance a sideline or emerge with a deep ball with a couple DBs riding shotgun on his shoulders. He was a Man from the day the Bengals drafted him. The same qualities that prodded his success on the field, guided his actions off it. Humble, respectful, appreciative and deeply mindful of the transactional nature of the game. “I’ve stayed true to the game and it owes me nothing’’ was part of what Green wrote yesterday. The next, he’s signing off in an Instagram post. One day he’s catching lots of passes and enjoying (or enduring) the sort of flash fame specific to athletic stardom. It was less than an instant, or so it seems. Their greatness doesn’t guarantee their longevity. That Texans game was, like, seven minutes ago. Instead, it never ended, reaching seven before Marvin left.Īnd oh, the irony: Count on the fingers of one glove the number of times Dalton overthrew Green in their 10 years together as Bengals. Who knows how the playoff future of those Marvin Lewis teams might have been altered, had the Men won that game? It would have stopped the Bengals postseason skid under Lewis at three games. Green wide open in the back of the end zone, Andy Dalton overthrew him.Ĭrushingly disappointing. Third-and-11 from the Houston 36, Texans up 19-13, 2:57 to play. Wild card game in Houston, January 2013, Green’s second season. AJ Green had more catches, yards and TD receptions than any Bengals wideout not named Chad.
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