Comments on: Calvin Johnson broke receiving record playing through broken fingers

By: voiceofreason

voiceofreason — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 19:56:33 +0000

WRs better than Garcon: Wayne, Wallace/Brown, Boldin, AJohnson, AJGreen, White/Jones, etc, etc…

By: twelsh36446

twelsh36446 — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 15:41:51 +0000

Not only is Johnson the best ever, he is the best human being to play the game. Johnson has more class than any super star I’ve ever watched play. He has humility, and it was his humility that got him the title of the best wide receiver ever.

By: 16x8equal49ers

16x8equal49ers — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 14:49:42 +0000

One of the only players ever to be great the same year he appeared on the Madden cover, another record lol. Oh and he was injured so the Madden curse somewhat still stands. Terrific player.

By: spavs412

spavs412 — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 05:21:57 +0000

Sucks Detroit wastes great talent. Sanders Johnson two of the best ever but got stuck in that city… Get out and break records while competing for rings!!!

By: larryboodry

larryboodry — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 02:30:13 +0000

justorion says: Feb 21, 2013 6:09 PM

“I remember the Bears stopping him pretty well…”

Indeed…And thus keeping him from getting 2,000 yards.

By: larryboodry

larryboodry — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 02:27:32 +0000

manilovethepftcensors says: Feb 21, 2013 1:57 PM

“Therefore every team knew exactly where the ball was going yet NONE OF THEM COULD STOP HIM!”

Also…

“And we have him locked down for what will most likely be his entire career so your team should get used to getting balled on for years to come.”

None of them? The Bears shut him down rather handily, twice.

By: woodyg

woodyg — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 01:26:59 +0000

Gimme a break. — What difference does it make? The Lions finished 4-12. In fact, the great CJ has only been on 1 winning team in Detroit in six seasons.

The truly great ones lead their team to greatness. — Obviously, CJ can’t.

By: west4420

west4420 — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 00:20:08 +0000

Johnson and Marshall are the two most dominant receivers in the league.

Marshall got the best of Megatron this year because of TD’s and impacting the outcome of the game but damn if it isn’t fun as hell watching those receivers in the NFC North.

If the Lions can get that run game going and have another receiver step up Calvin should have another stellar year.

By: chooko

chooko — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 00:19:31 +0000

Megatron’s an easy guy to root for.

By: str8cashhomey

str8cashhomey — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 23:58:57 +0000

Sirius NFL radio yesterday were referencing a conversation that they had with Calvin Johnson and asking his opinion of of other WRs in the league. They had lead him to Larry Fitzgerald and Calvin said that the WR he’d been paying the most attention to was Dez Bryant. Johnson said “That dude is a beast. He’s for real”

They then went on to ask Calvin about garçon in which he replied “who?”

By: str8cashhomey

str8cashhomey — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 23:19:31 +0000

By the way I mistakenly thought dez had 13 td’s instead of 12…..and yeah 13 is almost triple that of 5

By: str8cashhomey

str8cashhomey — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 23:17:28 +0000

What’s sad is you signing up to this site because a cowboy was mention in the same breath as Calvin and you got emotional….adjust your skirt lady

By: justorion

justorion — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 23:09:09 +0000

I remember the Bears stopping him pretty well…

By: trossano

trossano — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 22:47:05 +0000

Ok to the guy who made the comment about Dez

I made an account here purely to respond to that.

Since WHEN is 12 almost triple (aka 3 times) as many as 5, seriously? Cmon.

I don’t even know what else to say to that comment, it was just sad.

By: str8cashhomey

str8cashhomey — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 22:46:06 +0000

You can thumb me down a million times it doesn’t change the fact that what I said is true….and I never said dez was better..but he’s a cowboy so the hypocrites won’t praise him

By: anthonioustheprettygood

anthonioustheprettygood — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 22:35:31 +0000

logicalvoicesays says:Feb 21, 2013 12:40 PM

Top 3 WRs in professional football – Calvin Johnson, Fitzgerald and Garçon.

hahaha this never gets old. how many times does this guy post this?

Pierre? Is that you?? hahaha

By: str8cashhomey

str8cashhomey — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 22:21:52 +0000

Dez had almost triple the amount of td’s and he also had a broken finger

By: bunjy96

bunjy96 — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 22:17:42 +0000

All the comments about how great megatron is are true.

But the majority of you are missing the very important point.

The Detroit Lion organization, deliberately, with malice and forethought chose to ignore league rules.

What haven’t the Lions been fined? Other teams who have been guilty of this, get fined.

This sets a very bad example by the league office.

The rule should apply equally to all-NO EXCEPTIONS!!!!

By: gnomad

gnomad — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 21:36:57 +0000

What I don’t understand is why Detroit benefitted from not reporting it. I imagine every team preparing for Det. would still be 2 or 3 teaming him and if they didn’t, reporting the injury would have actually helped Det.

By: mjkelly77

mjkelly77 — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 20:54:03 +0000

“Calvin Johnson broke receiving record playing through broken fingers”
___________________

Hey, he’s Megatron.

By: bennyb82

bennyb82 — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 20:38:12 +0000

As a Lions fan, I am not concerned about his broken fingers. I am concerned that he was seen walking around Detroit. Isnt there a clause in his contract that should prevent this? Way more dangerous than riding a motorcycle!

By: andyreidisthegoat

andyreidisthegoat — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 20:30:08 +0000

* steve or joe

By: weepingjebus

weepingjebus — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 19:45:02 +0000

There should be a safety valve clause in the CBA such that whenever any player achieves a certain level of dominance they are no longer forced to waste their career in Detroit.

By: JaminJake

JaminJake — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 19:36:05 +0000

Johnson is a Moss/Rice hybrid. Moss like physical ability with Rice’s work ethic. Can’t believe he did this with broken fingers to boot.

By: xxsweepthelegxx

xxsweepthelegxx — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 19:34:22 +0000

Calvin Johnson IS a flat out beast. But it doesn’t hurt when your QB is setting records with 727 passing attempts in a season, CJ received 202 targets accounting for almost 30% of passes.
IMO, you give the Lions an average running game and Johnson’s yds largely decrease and his TDs go up. Lion’s W’s probably increase more to boot.
CJ is a lock for canton right now…that’s not even debatable.

By: chrismgillis

chrismgillis — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 19:02:45 +0000

@andyreidisthegoat
Where are all of these 5000yd QBs and 2000yd WRs? First there are only 4 QBs in history to hit that feat. Second, Calvin broke the record with over 1900 but less than 2000. Don’t make an argument with useless information. Calvin to Canton

By: manilovethepftcensors

manilovethepftcensors — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 18:57:41 +0000

Inevitably there are going to be a bunch of comments here about how CJ’s records are “meaningless” because the Lions had a bad season. These comments are nothing more than a shortcut to real, actual thinking.
Do you realize that his number 2, 3, and even 4 receivers were hurt over the course of the season? How about the fact that his number 1 running back didn’t play all season?
Therefore every team knew exactly where the ball was going yet NONE OF THEM COULD STOP HIM!
The fact that he was playing with broken fingers just further cements the fact that he is undoubtedly the best receiver in the league and when it is all said and done he will be the greatest of all time.
And we have him locked down for what will most likely be his entire career so your team should get used to getting balled on for years to come.

By: godofwine330

godofwine330 — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 18:55:43 +0000

He is going to have those “Torry Holt” fingers. Nasty.

By: harrisonhits2

harrisonhits2 — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 18:54:58 +0000

So the Lions didn’t disclose a serious injury for most or all of the season.

Where are all the people screaming about the Lions cheating ? If this were the Saints, Pats, Steelers, Giants or one of a few other teams there would be 100+ posts about them cheating.

Nice to see the double standard that most people who post here have isn’t going anywhere.

By: warewolf94

warewolf94 — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 18:42:30 +0000

He and Adrian Peterson are not human, they’re on a different level