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Moss isn’t alone in citing Gates’ conversion from college basketball player to Hall of Fame tight end as reason enough that James could have been a football star. “You look at it and you’d have to say, having seen Tony Gonzalez and seen Antonio Gates, that the guy definitely could have played,” current Titans defensive coordinator Dean Pees said in 2010. “He was a phenomenal athlete. If he wanted to play football, he certainly could’ve.”