Even though the football season is over, one of the league's most prolific receivers isn't done with the season.
Though he is done with catching passes for the time being, he is not done with trying to get traded.
As everyone knows, Chad Johnson, a leading wide receiver with the Cincinnati Bengals, is campaigning for a trade. So far he has been unsuccessful.
Why hasn't any team made an offer?
Johnson's career stats (49 career touchdowns and 559 receptions) make him a weapon for any team looking for a wide receiver. The problem with Johnson is, is that he is the league’s new T.O.
He is taking away focus from the team. Johnson made himself bigger than the team. Head Coach Marvin Lewis can't control him. Lewis even suggested Johnson sit the season out.
Johnson should have played out the remaining three years on his contract, and then hope to be traded. Though, that would be his 10th season and would be hard to trade.
Still, he wouldn't be viewed as a locker room cancer. Should Johnson not play an entire season and not keep in shape, he may never play for a team in the NFL again.
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3 months ago
I don't think that Johnson will play with the Bengals in 2008. He will either be traded or he will sit out.
3 months ago
I hope Lewis forces Chad to make his stand by not trading him, player's agents have started telling their clients to be outspoken misbehave and the teams will let them go, if a team don't soon make a stand it's only going o get worse
3 months ago
Well, unless some team ponys up some major considerations, similar to what it took for the Cowboys to send Hershel Walker packing to Minnesota, Chad's either going to develop a habit for Gameboy games, philantrophy, or, find God.
I see him starting the season, doing absolutely nothing. Then, by week 3 or 4, he's going to start whining again. Lewis, meanwhile, will have to deal with the stress of being unable to perform without a major weapon....kinda like the Raiders, when they wouldn't play Jerry Porter.
In the long run, the two losers, are the fans, who pay good money, and the coach, who looks bad thanks to a temper tantrum.
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