Who will sign T.J. Houshmandzadeh?
Since there’s a scarcity of good wide receivers available in the free agency pool, every team will probably gun for T.J. Houshmandzadeh.
And since T.J. Houshmandzadeh is really the only big impact wideout available from free agency, teams probably won’t mind spending a few bucks more than they usually do in putting the quite lengthy Houshmandzadeh name on their own jersey for the coming 2009-10 NFL football season. Good thing Ben Roethlisberger isn’t available, YET.
So where will T.J. Houshmandzadeh go? Will he stay in Cincinnati or will he finally move on after all those losing seasons he had playing for the state of Ohio? (Yes, he probably won’t even bother signing up for the Cleveland Browns…)
As of this writing, Houshmandzadeh already resigned himself to another season with the Cincinnati Bengals. Normally, a player with a definite decision would mean that it won’t be anything indefinite but since we live in an era where Brett Favre can retire, play again, retire, play again and (you guessed it…) retire again, we should now know better.
But for the meantime, we’ll buy in with what Houshmandzadeh has already said. And if he does stay away from the Queen City, which of the league’s other 31 teams will he play for next? Let’s start with probably the most intriguing one, the New York Giants. Now that the Giants are on the verge of letting Plaxico Burress go, signing Houshmandzadeh next is the logical way to go. The last postseason proved the Giants couldn’t advance without a big name wide receiver and while the Eagles took advantage of Burress’ absence when they took out the Giants in the divisional round, New York having a guy like Houshmandzadeh can probably bring them back to the big dance.
Of course, the Philadelphia Eagles can sure use a player of Houshmandzadeh’s caliber as well. Although the Eagles franchise, historically speaking, do not believe in acquiring big-name receivers, especially after the Terrell Owens experiment failed miserably a few seasons ago, the Eagles know they now need one with Donovan McNabb on the verge of filing for his pension. McNabb is not getting any younger and his team needs to make steps now and give their veteran quarterback more options downfield, before time runs out on them.
The Chicago Bears is also another team that could use a guy like T.J. Their big impact player the last few years was a special teams guy, Devin Hester. The dude was just unbelievable in returning kickoffs for touchdowns that the Bears had to find ways in giving him the ball more. Well, they tried putting Hester in the offense last season as a wide receiver, and the experiment failed miserably. If they have a guy like Houshmandzadeh doing his thing in the offense, Hester can just continue what he does best and that’s making teams look bad, five seconds after kickoff.
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Dallas Cowboys 10.00
New England Patriots 7.50
Arizona Cardinals 31.00
Pittsburgh Steelers 10.00
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