But deep down, Keyshawn, and probably Irvin, too - I don't know, you'd have to ask him - remain embittered by the fact that, as professional as they were as wides, they were not the young Jerry Rice, or Marvin Harrison.īy way of illustration, two images: the first came earlier this season when the Bucs played the Indianapolis Colts at home, and we first heard the awful screeching of the hull of the Tampa Bay Titanic being compromised below the waterline by that iceberg. And neither Irvin nor Keyshawn, I don't think, was very happy with this realization of immutable fact. But that's what Harrison and Rice could do to you, and what Irvin and Keyshawn could not. Shot or not, you did not beat Deion Sanders by 10 yards. I knew Marvin had arrived - and it was time for Deion to exit - back when Prime bit up on a Harrison stop-move fake, then Marvin blew by him like Deion was standing in cement, facing the other way. Keyshawn will never admit it, but he's simply not in Marvin Harrison's class. The keys to Marvin Harrison and young Jerry Rice were far more quickness and guile than speed. Keyshawn is a big, tough, jaw-jacking possession receiver on the order of Michael Irvin, the Cadillac Escalade of possession receivers, only Michael Irvin was better - better with his hands, using them to get the separation from the DBs that his speed and quicks could not gain him. Having said all that, Keyshawn would be best served to come to grips with what else he is, and is not. In a league where the hitting is this intense, it pays to be 6-4, 230 and insistent. If one's aorta, the main blood lifeline to the heart, can be bruised, then it stands to reason it can be ruptured. He has been remarkably injury-free in a league where being concussed is the regular state of affairs, where one unfortunate soul recently suffered a "bruised aorta" beneath his cracked sternum. ![]() Keyshawn doesn't miss starts - not for physical reasons. When you're the better part of 6-foot-4 and 230 pounds, insistent sometimes works. Keyshawn being the best at it, of course, as he would no doubt insist. But I am saying that we all could have played one on TV. ![]() I'm not saying Keyshawn Johnson is a ham. Keyshawn's teammates congratulate him on a rare trip to the end zone.
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