By BRADY HENDERSON
MyNorthwest.com

T.J. Houshmandzadeh said he isn't bitter about the Seahawks' decision to cut him on Saturday, one year into the five-year, $40 million contract he signed last offseason.

He wasn't at all surprised, either.

Reports of the team's plans to either trade or cut Houshmandzadeh surfaced Thursday, two days before the deadline for team's to reduce their rosters from 75 to 53. But he said he saw signs that his time in Seattle was nearing an end weeks before that.

"The people in Seattle I felt I could talk to and I did (talk to), I felt something was wrong, I would say right before the second preseason game (Aug. 21 against Green Bay)," he said Tuesday on the Brian Kenny show on ESPN Radio. "I told them, I said 'something ain't right. I ain't going to be here.' Guys on the team knew it. A lot of people knew that's how I felt. You just had that feeling."

He said while his communication with receivers coach Kippy Brown and offensive coordinator Jeremy Bates was "really good," that wasn't the case with he and head coach Pete Carroll.

"For whatever reason me and coach Carroll didn't really communicate much," he said. "I didn't know coach Carroll. He didn't know me."

With 79 catches for 911 yards, Houshmandzaded was by far the team's most productive receiver in 2009. But with that productivity there was also discord, most notably a sideline outburst during a blowout loss to the Dallas Cowboys.

While he incredulously questioned the notion of an attitude problem - telling Kenny "I supposedly have a bad attitude... I went to Seattle and got a bad attitude" - he expressed regret for some of the behavior he displayed during the Seahawks' 5-11 season.

"Last year I did some things that I guess rubbed people the wrong way, but I was frustrated with losing," he said. "Did I handle them the best way? No, I probably didn't. But that's what human beings do. You do things and whether they're right or wrong, you grow and you learn from them. But I guess if you're an athlete and you're given a lot, you've got to handle yourself accordingly at all times."

How did he handle being cut by the Seahawks?

"It was no hard feelings," he said. "I told them thank you (and that) I wish them luck and everything. I wasn't upset about it at the time."

He described joining the Ravens, a team considered to have a legitimate chance to win the Super Bowl, as a rebirth.

"I'm in a good situation right now," he said. "I really am."

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