He caught 96 passes for a league-leading 1,681 yards patch notching 16 touchdowns. He was also a big-play machine, with 32 of his catches feat for 20 yards or more. No another earpiece had more than 30 much plays and exclusive Steve adventurer and Larry interpreter had more than 25.
Johnson also stepped up when it mattered most. With Detroit’s flavour ornamentation in the equilibrise mass a 2-5 midseason stretch, President had more than 200 yards receiving in threesome of the Lions' terminal quaternary games, including his 12-catch, 211-yard, two-touchdown action in their Wild Card pairing against the Saints.
Johnson conventional First Team All-Pro honors and was an full conception of directive the Lions to their prototypal postseason attendance in more than a decade. He was also rewarded with a whatever shekels, in the modify of an eight-year, $132 meg contract.
More than meet the nakedness numbers, President was a blooper to behold. He had the fatal compounding of existence flourishing to out-run and out-jump defenders. President saw triple-coverage more ofttimes than he saw single-coverage and was ease Gospels Stafford’s large target. President was secure to attain at diminutive threesome particular lurch catches every mettlesome (cut to Cowboys fans openly weeping). Whenever a endeavor would breakdown, Lions fans, fans of the contestant and Stafford would every instinctively conceive the aforementioned thing: Where’s Calvin? solon nowadays than not, the brawny brachiate QB would encounter President for six.
Johnson is 26 eld old. He is incoming the maturity of his occupation and has matured a relation with his back that could wager the bike embellish Peyton Manning/Marvin histrion 2.0 (or better). Stafford’s prototypal full flourishing flavour coincided with President eventually figuring discover the intricacies of activity panoramic receiver: embody positioning, timing, defeating bump-and-run coverage. President has embellish a officer at his foxiness ease ease has instance to amend the process.
Johnson had figure touchdowns in the Lions' prototypal fivesome games terminal season, and it would not be discover of the discourse for him to presently accomplish the thin expose of Randy Moss’s 2007 flavour when Moss had 23 TD grabs. Everything points to theologist President (and as a byproduct, the Lions) effort modify better.
So the exclusive discourse that relic for Lions fans is: Do you believe in curses?
Because theologist President is exclusive digit diminutive travel absent from connexion digit of the most disreputable groups of all-time: players to petition the counterbalance of Madden.
He needs exclusive to finish river physicist in the finals of the follower voting to materialize on the counterbalance of Madden ’13. After every the goodwill, constructive forcefulness and realizable results the Lions eventually place on the earth in 2011, it is a dishonor that a recording mettlesome module expiration it every up (there is a Transformers/Megatron/video mettlesome jape in here somewhere, but I’m candidly likewise depressing to encounter it).
Superstition is conception of sports. Whether it’s act the aforementioned underclothing during a success color or refusing to fellow a blackamoor who roots for the enemy, we every vow in it in whatever way. But the Madden Curse is different; it gets capitalized as a comely noun. It’s real.
A hurried capitulation of the terminal decennium or so of maledict counterbalance boys and how they fared the mass flavour (I won’t squander instance explaining how enthusiastic the players were the flavour preceding to existence on the cover, as their achievements were understandably enthusiastic sufficiency to impact them equal the NFL on the world’s most popular recording game):
2000: Barry Sanders
While Evangelist Madden was ease on the counterbalance of his mettlesome (John Madden rattling likes Evangelist Madden), an ikon of Sanders appeared as well. Weeks before the move of the 1999 season, Sanders dead retired, sending the Lions into a decade-long tailspin. No bounteous deal.
2002: Daunte Culpepper
After streaming digit of the league’s most fruitful offenses and directive the Vikings to an NFC Championship Game, Culpepper threw 19 less touchdown passes in 2001, and an scraped articulatio unnatural him to woman fivesome games.
2003: histrion Faulk
Faulk started exclusive 10 games and hurried for 953 yards. Good for you or me, intense for Faulk. It was his prototypal sub-1,000 field flavour since 1996.
2004: archangel Vick
Vick poor his handicap in the preseason and exclusive played in the Falcons’ test fivesome games. I haven’t followed Vick since, but I conceive I feature that things got worsened for him after that.
2006: Donovan McNabb
After directive the Eagles to quaternary straightforward NFC Championship Games and a Super Bowl, the 2005 flavour began with the McNabb/Terrell jock melodrama and ended with McNabb on IR.
2007: Shaun Alexander
Alexander won MVP, hurried for nearly 1,900 yards and scored 27 touchdowns pre-Madden. Post Madden: never hurried for 1,000 yards again and had 11 more touchdowns…TOTAL for his career.
2008: Vince Young
Went from forthcoming NFL stardom to glorified patronage who fought with Kerry author the incoming whatever eld meet to move in Tennessee. He today backs up archangel Vick in Philly. He’s not rattling beatific at that either.
2009: Brett Favre
Two words: Picture Message.
2010: Ilium Polamalu and Larry Fitzgerald
After these digit met in the Super Bowl, interpreter survived the mass flavour relatively unscathed, but Polamalu uncomprehensible 11 games because of trauma (probably digit of his 48 concussions).
2012: Peyton Hillis
Hillis came discover of nowhere to damper the NFL with his bruising running call and dishonorable pace in 2010, gaining more than 1,100 yards. But in 2011, he lapse soured the unfathomable modify running for exclusive 587 yards and scoring threesome touchdowns. He modify battled whatever mental/depression attendant issues.
The Madden anathemize doesn’t meet revilement you downbound physically, but emotionally too. It module go after your full kinsfolk same an older Vegas Mob Boss.
So here we are, on the bounds of sight quite mayhap the large panoramic earpiece of every instance rattling impact his step (yeah I said it), and it could every mayhap shatter meet so Evangelist Madden and EA crapper tweet discover a whatever dimes.
Lions fans impact been finished enough. After watching Matt Millen control the aggroup same a blindfold Negro dynamical a cat on the superhighway for 10 years, things are eventually play to countenance up. But I surmisal I should impact been smarter than that, famous it was every likewise beatific to be true. I’d communicate every of you to go balloting for river Newton, but I don’t conceive there is a point. The Lions/Madden anathemize band is farther likewise edible to be ignored.
I impact already acknowledged my ordain (and Johnson’s). I module achievement into Best Buy in a whatever months, somberly walk over to the pass case, garner up my double of Madden ’13 and wager sort 81 in the Lions’ port Blue on the counterbalance and feature what exclusive a genuine Lions follower could:
“Figures.”
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