"I just want to let everyone know that Matt Hasselbeck and I will be leading the Seahawks to the playoffs this season," Houshmandzadeh proclaims. "And we’ll be going to the Pro Bowl as a tandem. We’re both going to have top five seasons: He’ll have a top five quarterback season, and I’ll have a top five receiving season. I’ll put up stats I’ve never had before yardswise because they’re allowing me to be a complete receiver."

thinking they have a good shot at the playoffs, every year. Bad teams believe in themselves and don’t know their bad, until the season starts and it dawns on them.

Publicly setting a high bar has few (if any) benefits. Why not be publicly modest and then blow everyone’s expectations out of the water?

OF ALL PEOPLE, Housh should know that #1s get most of the pressure and thus create opportunity for other receiving targets. I wouldn’t be shocked if he only caught 60-65 passes this year and Branch/Carlson/Butler caught more than expected.

Houshmandzadeh’s prognostication has better chances of being realized than Burleson’s and Tapp’s, whose seemed rather tongue in cheek.

Twitter is a plague, it just encourages people to mouth off randomly. Like rich athletes need more of that.

But as for Housh… He could end up in the pro bowl for a change. After 90+ receptions three years in a row he could have 100 this year with Matt. Still, he should have the class to keep his mouth shut.

I would bet that Housh and Burleson end the year as the Seahawks #1 and #2 receivers, even if Branch gets more snaps early in the season (before he goes down with his annual injury).

But let’s get real, Tapp is not going to get 12 sacks unless he grows three more inches to play with more leverage and stop getting swallowed up by all those OTs who eat his lunch on Sundays.

It sounds as if he was just joshing around and that it was taken a little out of context and people think he’s being serious. I know Tapp was definitely kidding around, considering his response was to make a prediction nearly word for word what Burleson said.

right here:

http://davekriegsstrikebeard.blogspot.com/2009/06/rampant-idiocyignorance-over-on-pro.html

How many QB’s do I need to name to disprove this blasphemy?? Let’s see Fitzgerald, Boldin, Jennings, Driver?, White, and Colston. Housh better lace those cleets up tight he isn’t in the AFC anymore!!

Seahawks have to adapt to a lot of change like the niners and rams. Though their O has some vets which will make it easier on the transition, but nevertheless Mora is the coach, Holmgren is gone and the O is going to a zone blocking scheme. A lot of changes to predict playoffs. I think Brees and Colston, Jennings and Rogers, Warner and both of his wideouts, McNabb, and Romo will keep one of the two (Housh and Hasslebeck) out of the Pro Bowl. The playoffs will me a huge toss-up between the niners, Seagirls, and Cards. No Seagirls is not a typo……………GO NINERS!!