C. Johnson Readying to Return to Bengals
Wide receiver Chad Johnson has told ESPN that he's planning to return to the Cincinnati Bengals soon.
"Am I coming back? Of course I am," Johnson told ESPN The Magazine, according to a story posted on the network's website. "I told my coaches I'm going to California to act, but the truth is I may come back to the Bengals as early as June. I may be crazy but I'm not stupid."
Johnson has spent much of the offseason lobbying to be traded by the Bengals. He'd threatened to boycott all of the team's offseason activities.
But the Bengals staunchly refused to trade him, and now Johnson apparently is prepared to return. The Bengals have a minicamp scheduled to begin on June 12.
"If we want to be like Indy and New England, we have to pay and bring in some difference-makers on defense," Johnson told ESPN. "Our offense is fine. But if they're fussing about paying a guy like me, a guy among the best in the league, you know damn well the Bengals aren't gonna supply the defense with what it needs. So I just said, 'If we aren't gonna do what we need to make us win--can I please leave?' It's simple. I just told 'em: 'If y'all won't change, then I have to.' "
By Mark Maske |
June 3, 2008; 1:30 PM ET
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He is both crazy and stupid and full of it!
Either man up and get a set out and sit out the year like Riggo or shut up punk!
The NFL, NBA, NHL and MBL need a "Too Stupid Too Perform List" where they can put knuckleheads like this little boy and not pay him for several weeks until he grows up. Hire a few kindergarten teachers
and make class attendance mandatory for these knuckleheads. Linehart and some others might grow up. Its like raising a good working dog or a woman training a hubbie you demand and expect the correct behavior and actions and you get it.