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Posted Wednesday July 23, 2008, About: Bengals Johnson & Lewis make up
No team wanted him? Is that why the Redskins offered two 1st round picks for him in April? That's pretty much the most trade value any NFL player has ever gotten or will ever get - I don't think you could get more for Tom Brady or Peyton Manning. Everyone wants to paint Chad across the board because of his attitude and antics, but the bottom line is he is an elite NFL receiver and the Bengals have him for a bargain right now and for the next few years. I think the organization handled it perfectly - a rare thing for that team.
Posted Wednesday June 25, 2008, About: Sheets to test free-agent market
Please make this happen Reds...You already proved you're willing to cough up some money for quality free agents (Cordero), you'd be taking him from a division opponent, and a starting rotation with Sheets, Volquez, Harrang, and Cueto would be one of the best in the majors...I'm just really worried they have too much wrapped up in Bronson "11-runs-in-2-innings-against-the-freaking-BLUEJAYS" Arroyo to pull the trigger...
Posted Sunday June 22, 2008, About: Why Ravens may start Flacco
They won't start him until they're SURE they have their O-line in place now that Ogden's gone.
Posted Tuesday June 17, 2008, About: Steaming Steinbrenner blasts N.L.
Yeah...we wouldn't want to be restricted by any of those pesky 19th century rules while we were playing BASEBALL would we...bring on the laser cannons and jet packs! god knows the yankees can afford them.
Posted Monday May 12, 2008, About: Why Bengals won't sign Alexander
YngwieScruggs -

The Bengals actually have an excellent O-line. The problem last year was they had to keep shuffling people in and out of different positions because of injuries. Steinbach was a big loss, but they have 2 Pro-Bowl tackles (Levi Jones and future HOF'er Willie Anderson) and 2 stud guards (Whitworth and Andrews - both of whom would be starting LT's on a lot of NFL teams). If they can keep them healthy and at consistent positions this year it will help whoever is running the ball behind them.

Alexander would be a good addition to a team that had a spot open for a back, that's the bottom line. The Bengals just don't. They aren't ready to write off Rudi Johnson or Chris Perry (right on both accounts I think, but this is the put up or shut up season for both) and they can't discount what Kenny Watson and DeDe Dorsey did last year. Plus they have Kenny Irons who will hopefully be healthy at some point this season. There's just no room. The Rams is a good suggestion - I don't even know who they have behind Jackson.
Posted Thursday May 01, 2008, About: Agent pleads for trade on YouTube
I can't believe anyone would be ignorant enough to claim that Carson Palmer is being a more devisive presence on that team than CJ right now. What has CJ done to deserve all the hatred? Nothing at all until after the season was over. Fans adored him until he came out and said he didn't care what the fans thought of him and hated the team he swore less than a year earlier he wanted to finish his career and win a Super Bowl with. Now fans are burning his jerseys at local sports stores. He was primed to start getting huge endorsement deals - now he's just another TO.

Would the Bengals love 2 first round draft picks? Of course they would. ANyone would. But it wasn't realistic this year. They wouldn't have had the cap space to sign a second 1st round pick this year without cutting several starters. The situation might be a bit different next year, but they really have no choice but to let him sit. Lost in all of this is several other players behind the scenes making similar demands. Starting LT Levi Jones is grumbling - also 2 years into a massive 6 year deal. Houshmendzadah is in the last year of his contract. Willie Anderson is close to retirement. The defense is improving but still needs massive help. The Bengals are about more than Chad Johnson and they simply can't blow up their salary cap to appease him right now. No one wants to see him sit a year (except maybe Marvin Lewis just out of pride) but if that's how he's going to play his hand then the organization doesn't really have a move.

He's brought this on himself. He demanded huge money up front in his current contract, now he's scheduled to make $3 million this year in the lean middle year of it. He sees Larry Fitzgerald break the bank in Arizona and he wants more money. Welcome to the NFL. WHen he signed his current contract 2 years ago Rosenhaus called it "historical and amazingly generous." And remember that was the SECOND time the team had ripped up his contract and renegotiated. This would be the THIRD in 5 YEARS. Name me one other NFL player that gets that kind of treatment. He's an elite receiver, but he's not the best receiver in the league. At least everywhere but in his own head.
Posted Monday April 28, 2008, About: Bengals planning for Chad's exit?
I don't think they'll do it in June. Yes the cap hit would be spread out over this year and next, but it would be in December too. The same teams that would pay a high price for Chad on June 1st are still going to want him in December - and possibly a few more. And Mike Brown and Marv get the added bonus of costing Chad's whining as& a ton of money in the process - both in fines and in contract money wherever he goes as a proven malcontent and 1 year older receiver who just missed a season. It's what he deserves.
Posted Saturday April 19, 2008, About: T.J.: Bengals should trade Chad
pApI -

First off, Deltha Oneal pretty much only plays nickle anymore behind Jonathan Joseph and leon Hall. Secondly, with the $8 million cap hit they wouldn't even have the cap space to sign two first round draft picks so it wouldn't matter who they could get later in the round, especially if they had to pick up Shepperd's salary to boot. That's what sucks the most about this - he's worth a first round pick (hell maybe even 2 first round picks), but it would be useless this year. It's an impossible situation and I think he's going to sit out.
Posted Thursday April 17, 2008, About: Ocho-Cinco turns on Carson
ANyone buying Chad's "I just want to win a championship" schtick is being naive. I don't doubt that he actually does want to do that, but that's not his motivation here. If it was why would his first target be Bill Parcells in freaking Miami? There's no way Miami is going to be a legit contender for another 3 years minimum and Chad's already 30. He's got a better shot with Carson Palmer throwing him the ball and TJ across from him even if the rest of that team stayed exactly the same.

This is all about the Larry Fitzgerald contract. He just wants to be the top paid receiver in the league. And he very well might deserve it - anyone who denies his talent on the field is an absolute idiot. But let's not forget that the 6 year contract he's under now was ALREADY a restructured contract that the Bengals had torn up 4 years of. It was front loadad (BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT CHAD WANTED) and now he's looking at the leaner middle years of it. If they caved now he could do this again year after year every time Steve Smith or Randy Wayne signed a new contract. He keeps saying this is a business, well at some point the Bengals as a business need to start looking out for THEIR interests. A team can't be strong armed into renegotiating a player's contract every year or two. Long-term contracts would have no meaning. Everyone would essentially be a free agent.

As for the Carson-Chad heat being media created, the one part of the quote that for some reason keeps being left out is the worst part. Chad said "Carson needs to mind his own business" and I'm sorry, but that's hostile. Carson was just reiterating what Chad said on national TV less than a week ago. And i guarantee that he said exactly the same thing to Carson in private. There's no excuse for turning and calling Carson a liar, which is what he did.

The bottom line is Cincinnati can't afford to trade him, even if they wanted to. So don't paint this as a problem with the organization for "tolerating" his behavior. It makes more financial sense for them to let him sit out the season, and I'm sorry but Chad's going to be a lot harder pressed to find a team willing to sign a 31 year old receiver who hasn't played for a year and has shown he won't honor a long term contract to a mega-bucks blockbuster deal like he wants. He'll be lucky to get the Randy Moss treatment, and he's in better shape where he is money-wise. And even that's assuming the Bengals wouldn't let him sit out ANOTHER season in 2009, which they very well might. If Chad wants to play football, he'll be doing it in a Bengals uniform for at least another year or two.
Posted Thursday April 03, 2008, About: Ocho-Cinco won't sit out '08
No one forced him to sign a 6-year contract. He knew when he signed it that it was going to go until he was 34 - close to if not at the end of his career. Now he's in a position where the team can't afford to unload him even if they wanted to and NO amount of whining is going to change the numbers on that. It makes more sense financially for the Bengals to let him sit out 2008 than it does to trade him now. And the same is probably true for 2009 as well. If he wants to start this up again in 2010 then we can talk, but I don't know what advice this guy is getting from his management. As a die hard Bengals fan, I LOVED Chad and so did every Cincinnati fan. But he has effectively destroyed all of that in a matter of 3 months. He used to talk about how much he loved his fans and just wanted to go out and give them a show. Now he says "I don't care about them anymore." I've never been terribly emotionally invested in my sports fandom before, but I have to say I feel a bit betrayed by that. Get your head straight, Chad. We're the ones that pay you your millions in the end.
Posted Thursday March 20, 2008, About: Houshmandzadeh upset, too
TJ never attends these workouts. He works out in LA with his own trainers. This story comes up every year - it's just now with the Chad thing everyone is going to make a big deal out of it. They're reworking TJ's contract as we speak. He'll have a huge extension by the time training camp starts and everything will be fine. Chad, on the other hand, I don't know what to do with. I still feel like Marvin Lewis could just have a press conference and say "We love Chad and he's invaluable to our team" and everything would be fine. But he'll never do that because he's a freaking robot and can't stand the idea of looking like he's compromising. Jerry Jones would have made him do it by now but Mike Brown doesn't care about anything as long as the games sell out.
Posted Saturday February 09, 2008, About: T.J. thinks Johnson will be back
this whole thing is ridiculous...the bengals can't afford an $8 million cap hit just like they can't afford losing one of the best receivers in the league. chad's high maintenance - hell he's an 8 year old - but he's worth it. he'll go to africa, hang out in miami, and by the time training camp rolls around he'll be all smiles again. the media created this drama because they know they can get under his skin and it'll make for some funny interviews on rome is burning.
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