A TE can't be a bus driver... The nature of the sports are different, outside of QBs, no offensive player in football can compare themselves with leading NBA players.
I never said a tight end is a bus driver but Shaq shouldn't be going around trying to dimishing people's Hall Of Fame accomplishments acting they were some pedestrian on their teams. Especially,when that tight end was from an era where the running back was the main focus of the offense and he still put up huge numbers. Shannon had most or all the tight end records before he retired.
On top of that, football is more of a team sport than basketball.
Like,I said Shaq always uses his rings as justification on why he should be considered in the goat conversation,when there's other factors besides that.