Look, even if you are a Die Hard Bengal fan you have to understand what Chad is going through. This guy is pissed because he wants to win. The fans are saying he is too much into himself and he didn't make enough plays last season. That is Crap! He set the Single Season Receiving record last season with over 1,400yds. I mean c'mon.
Chad Johnson is mad because the Bengals have had plenty of chances to strengthen that Defense. The Offense is fine. They could use a Back up RB that isn't hurt every season, OL, and another TE to along with Utecht. But the Defense is soooo bad.
The Bengals are now trying to switch to the 3-4. They really don't have the personnel to make the switch anyway. They couldn't even keep a 4-3 alignment together. The reason I say that the 3-4 wont work is because they have no Depth at LB, or on the DLine. If they were to switch......Who would play 3-4 NT, and who would rotate at NT. Who would play the two 3-4 DE's and rotate with them. The only certain is that Ahmad Brooks would be a good fit at 3-4 MLB. Who would play opposite of him? Then you have to ask about the two most important positions of the 3-4, 3-4 OLB's. Robert Geathers is a solid player that will make the switch very well. What about Antwaan Odom? He is 6-4 272...That is pretty heavy for a OLB in the 3-4. Shawne Merriman plays around that weight but Merriman is about 10 times better. Can Odom drop back into zone or man to man with a TE?
The Biggest point that I am trying to make is that the Bengals don't have enough talented players to play along that 3-4 front 7. You need lots of DT's and Big Linebackers. They have neither. They have no depth at the DT of LB core. DT's are DE's in the 3-4.
If the Bengals would have made the trade for NT Shaun Rogers and gotten a good 3-4 Linebacker like Derrick Smith or possibly even bring back Takeo Spikes.......then maybe Chad would have been happy.
The Bengals will not get back to the playoffs without a talented Defense. Anyone can score on this team. They need 3-4 DL, MLB, OLB, FS, SS.......Pretty much everything plus Depth across the Defense.
Chad Johnson will be 35 by the time they reach the Playoffs. The Browns and Steelers have gotten better. The Bengals are worse than they were before. 6-10..........This is why Chad wants to go somewhere else. The only problem is his cap hit against the Bengals. I would love to have Chad in Big D, but it won't happen.
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Why? Because he wants a chance to win it all. He wants a team that has a chance of going to the playoffs, rather than declining. He is only a pain because he is on a franchise that is going backwards rather than forwards.
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i've been a bengals fan all my life. no fans criticized chad - just a handful of stupid local reporters. he IS making fans hate him now though. the bottom line is he's got 4 more years on a contract that, even if the team wanted to trade him, would cripple them financially. so basically he is putting himself above the welfare of the entire team all because some local columnist hurt his feelings. the bengals have tried to get their defense right - deltha oneal, dexter jackson, sam adams, odell thurman, david pollack, jonathan joseph, leon hall, this year antwan odom and a solid shot at shaun rogers. if chad doesn't realize that injuries and suspensions have decimated that effort than he doesn't know as much about football as he thinks. he took his giant signing bonus in 2006 and now he's whining about it - if he had 1 or 2 years left on his gi-freaking-normous contract i could maybe forgive this kind of rumbling, but doing it 2 years into a 6 year deal? that's ridiculous and he'd better get the message soon that the bengals are willing to let him sit out the season - his first season over the age of 30, mind you - if he doesn't get his head straight. we've always known he was a child. we were willing to forgive it because he's a great player and he was always fun to watch. but this tantrum is way over the line.
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If anyone wants to hear someone who actually knows about and studies the Bengals, please go to my blog. http://www.bengalnationdaily.com.
They're not going to a 3-4. If that were the case they wouldn't have signed Antwan Odom, who is a pure 4-3 end. They're going to run a hybrid defense similar to the one Baltimore runs. There may be some 3-4 looks (which I expect because Jonathan Fanene is up to 300 lbs and as such the only end he'll be playing is a 3-4 end, he'll spend 90% of his snaps inside the 4-3), but the base of their package will remain a 4-3.
Chad Johnson is a ****. Yes, he caught passes for 1400+ yards this year, but he has too many drops and is too scared of the big hit to go across the middle like T.J. does. Mario Manningham or Malcolm Kelly will fit in fine across from Henry (who appears to have grown up quite a bit), and T.J. will do all the dirty work like he's been doing for the past seven years.
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You miss the point. "The fans are saying he is too much into himself and he didn't make enough plays last season. That is Crap! He set the Single Season Receiving record last season with over 1,400yds" So what, he had 8 touchdowns and 2 of the were against the Dolphins and 2 against the Browns in that shootout. He only scored in 4 games all season!! For a guy that wants to win so bad, he hasn't proven to anyone that he's a winner. Look at TJ, the guy plays in the shadow of Ocho and all his antics and puts up solid numbers, that guys a winner. TJ has more receptions, more TD's and countless times changed the course of the game, what did Ocho Stinko do? CJ is a showboating deep threat that draws opposing safeties and media coverage, not Super Bowls. The guy drops more passes then your boy Owens!! The only reason the Bengals went 7-9 last year is because they play in the hardest division in football, while New England gets to beat up on Buffalo, the Jets and Miami every week. I'm sick of Chad Johnson being a baby and wanting to play for a winner, doesn't everyone want to play for a winner? That's why you go out there year in and year out, and don't play it off as if the bengals don't have a team around Chad Johnson, theres a better team without Chad Johnson. We should be looking at Rudi Johnson and the run game not the defense. Of course its porous and has some holes, the entire team was either injured or suspended haha. We didn't even have enough Linebackers in one of the games!
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But 6-10 is probably not going to be far off, i'll go with 8-8 tho. Probably the toughest schedule i've seen in a while with games against Philly, Dallas, NYG, Wash, Indy, Jacksonville, Tenn etc.. not to mention the two games against the Browns and the Steelers
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Pragmatic: I love your irony regarding Henry growing up, in light of the recent news from last night.
But, I think Kelly or someone like Sweed would fit in well in place of Henry. A tall, speedy target like Henry is tough to replace, though.
With the multiple 3rd rounders the Bengals have, I wouldn't be suprised if they were able to pull maybe even a top 7 receiver. They HAVE to draft one, and most likely will draft 2 (since they have 10 total picks).
DS199
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He's a good player on a very inconsitance team.He is tired of four long years of the front office saying they are going to win.They have done nothing of the sort.He is tired of other former players that have cause lawful issues,but yet all attention goes to him because he likes to celebrate his accomplaments.
I think he wants to win,that what you do when your on a team.He knows it might not happen in Cincinnati,and he wants to go where the attidue is a little more positive.
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