Not honorable at all. It's timing was intersecting with an honorable thing Tim did the previous day. Oh you Riggins, and the crazy things you do
One of my fave scenes as well. It was an early scene of the two of them, and back then we haven't seen much of the relationship between them, but you could tell that Eric did care enough about Tim to talk to him about Jason's accident, and how Tim was blaming himself for it. The fact that Tim didn't skip the conversation or avoided it with Eric, but instead, listened him and even cried was another proof that Eric was someone Tim could somehow trust to at least open up that much to him.
Which always makes me curious to something..Eric/Jason knew eachother before S1, right? Tim/Jason were best friends since they were young, are we to assume that Eric/Tim also knew eachother somehow back then?