Report: Johnson about to lose $250,000 workout bonus... again
by Kirkendall on Apr 6, 2009 9:59 AM EDT
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Last off-season, around this time, we wrote that Chad Johnson is forgoing his $250,000 workout bonus while demanding to be traded. Obviously, while not attending voluntary off-season programs, Johnson figured that it would let the team know he was serious. Unfortunately for Johnson, he learned that the team was more serious about keeping him than Johnson was about being traded. So he eventually returned.
But that $250,000 workout bonus didn't.
Since last year's show was apparently so amusing, he figured that the fans, teammates and coaches wanted an encore. James Walker writes that Johnson is risking his $250,000 workout bonus by sitting out of voluntary workouts.
According to Ocho Cinco's contract, the five-time Pro Bowler will squander a workout bonus of $250,000 for not participating in this year's offseason program. Most players are required to take part in at least 80 to 90 percent of the voluntary program to earn workout bonuses.
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Can we just start talking about trade rumors involving The Chad again?
…I can even start some, if you’d like…much better than watching him fritter away more in one week than a lot of hard-working people earn in 3 or 4 years…wow…
I mean, I won’t lie and say I wouldn’t have traded him for Michael Bush and draft picks in a New York Minute. Not that there was any foundation to that rumor, mind you…I’m just saying…
:-)
by TheWalrus1971 on Apr 6, 2009 11:59 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Right about now
I’d trade him for a free pizza. (OK, maybe not really, but pretty close.) Get this clown out of Cincinnati already!
by FriarBob on Apr 6, 2009 2:36 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
I heard, from a friend of my brother-in-law’s barber’s yardman’s second cousin, that the Bengals are in talks with that team from the Mistake On the Lake, wherein we would trade Chad and a forged Ohio Driver’s License(in the name “Dante Stallworth”) for Eric Steinbach and aged mudder, Leroy Kelly. I’ve already given Cutler a head’s up.
by IgnatiusJReilly on Apr 6, 2009 2:41 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Now, THAT's a trade rumor...the stuff of LEGEND, it is!
…what else we got?
by TheWalrus1971 on Apr 6, 2009 3:32 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Chad and a loose cigarette for Tatum Bell and Rudi Johnsons stolen luggage!
by smoormandiddy on Apr 6, 2009 3:56 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
I’m not on the trade Chad Ocho Cinco bandwagon just yet. He had a down year because of an injury that effected him the entire year. Also he had Fitzpatrick throwing him the ball not Carson Palmer. Chad averaged for his career before this past season….80 catches, 1,195 yards and 7 touchdowns. I understand the fact that he is always running his mouth but other than this past year he has backed up his talk with a productive season. He hasn’t opened his mouth this entire offseason about wanting a trade, only his agent has. But then again when isn’t Drew Rosenhaus saying his client wants to be traded?
by CinBengal08 on Apr 6, 2009 4:50 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
When your star QB goes down the team looks for a big name vet to rally behind and instead he showed zero effort. If he does not want to be there, let him go. I would rather play a younger, lesser skilled receiver who actually want to contribute.
by smoormandiddy on Apr 6, 2009 7:28 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
How about?
Chad and a #4 pick to the DOJ for the rights to Dante Stallworth and Plaxico Burress?
by Squizza on Apr 7, 2009 2:07 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Only
if they sweeten the deal with the rights to Michael Vick.
by IgnatiusJReilly on Apr 7, 2009 8:01 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
What a joke
This junk is getting beyond old; is he ever going to “get it”
by KYBengalsFan on Apr 7, 2009 9:52 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Idiots
Well since there are all you super intelligent bengal fans that want to trade one of our most productive players for a 3rd round draft pick why dont we trade Palmer since he is injury prone and then both our starting cornerbacks so we can draft Mike Mickens and Smith from the Bearcats and make them the starters. We can then also pick up Grossman and make him are starting QB since he can chuck it downfield. OR maybe we can trade half of you guys and get some intelligent fans from Pittsburgh. Shut up already with the trade Chad B.S. Who cares if he is a VOLUNTARY workouts or not. If he had to be there they would be MANDATORY workouts. When your on a team that could care less about winning its hard to care about the team yourself. He shows up when he has to and plays HURT and produces. Last year was a down year b/c he pissed off Mike and Marvin and they refused to throw him the ball. Watch all the games from last year. The ball was almost never thrown in his direction.
by Diesel2405 on Apr 7, 2009 1:04 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
"The ball was almost never thrown in his direction."
Chad had the ball thrown to him 97 times — he caught 53, didn’t catch 44 (and no, there’s no detailed definition of no catch — whether it was a bad pass, a drop, etc…) This came from Stats, Inc which shows a huge drop off in previous seasons.
Also, for comparison sake, Houshmandzadeh has 137 passes thrown his way — that’s a 40-pass increase.
That said. Chad was the second most targeted receiver on the team with a passing offense that recorded 513 pass attempts.
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by Kirkendall on Apr 7, 2009 3:16 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Okay, see.
Before you call others “idiots”, it’s wise to check oneself first. Considering even in these joke suggestions, the only specific compensation mentioned was Eric Steinbach, a starting guard, and Michael Bush and a 2nd rounder(39), I’m not sure where you’re getting this “3rd round pick” you’re accusing us of. Look at it like this, if your wife cheats on you- or at least discusses publicly her urge to do so, she may still be hot but you can’t trust her as far as you can throw her. If I’m anybody on this team- particularly the offense, I’m not sure anymore that Chad’s got my back and that’s crucial to team cohesion. He may indeed be capable of putting up 90/1200 again but that has to be balanced with the damage he does on locker room chemistry and what little authority Marvin still has with the team. I’d rather have Coles’ 75/1000 + his commitment than Chad any day.
As for him playing hurt? He willfully put off ankle surgery last offseason until it cost him training camp and his play with the labrum problem left a lot to be desired, not extending fully for catches. He was half a receiver at best and, while some might call that cojones, I call it detrimental to the team as a whole.
86 85.
by IgnatiusJReilly on Apr 7, 2009 3:17 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
So now you are in the locker room.
Amazing about how much you know about whats going on inside the bengals locker room. do you go in there on a daily basis and have conversations with the team about there chemistry with Chad? Do you also have conversations with Chad and he tells you he is not Fully commited to performing on the field? Here is a guy who thinks he is going to be a hall of famer and wants to be the best WR there is, so now he suddenly wants to hurt his own stats b/c he isnt COMMITTED to the Bengals winning attitude.People other then this post have said they would take a 3rd or 4th rounder for him. As far as my so called wife cheating on me I don’t understand how that is relavent to FOOTBALL and how much chad produces and how much he has done for this team. You guys are getting upset with Chad bc he spoke up against the franchise which is what half you people do everyday on this website. Why badmouth someone who speaks the truth. Who comes out and says what we have all been saying about this team and franchise. Even with putting off the ankle surgery he was still ready to go. WILLIE ANDERSON did the same exact thing in 2007 when he hurt his foot. He had ALL offseason to fix it but waited to do it until training camp. Where is all the badmouthing on Willie? Im also pretty sure TJ, you know the TEAM player, was always off the field whenever he even had a cramp. Chad was on the field with a bum ankle and Torn labrum.
by Diesel2405 on Apr 7, 2009 3:41 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Funny thing
When Palmer is on the field hurt it’s because he loves the Bengals and do anything to help them win, but when chad plays hurt it is “detrimental to the team as a whole?”
by Diesel2405 on Apr 7, 2009 3:42 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
No, not at all. There were games this past season where, if it were left up to him, Carson would have played but, given the state of the line and his reknowned immobility, he was held out…for the good of the team. Shawn Merriman tried to go with a blown out knee for the Chargers but he couldn’t play up to midgrade NFL standards- let alone his own standards. It’s a question of that competitive drive, which is admirable, versus whether one’s injury ends up being a handicap to the normal flow of the game. And yeah, he was on the field with Carson at the beginning of the season running routes that weren’t crisp and completely out of sync with his QB due to sitting out the offseason workouts- and yes that holds true for TJ, too.
Also, bringing up other player’s situations as an argument when the subject is Chad is a fallacious form of logic known as tu quoque. But, just to reply, Willie doesn’t have the baggage to go along with his injury situation- plus, he was receiving nonsurgical treatments on the foot in Atlanta all off season. They just didn’t work.
My beef with Chad isn’t in his criticism of the organization- though arguably it doesn’t need to be aired nationally. Mike and Marvin are absolutely deserving of it. It’s his threats to not show up at all, to sit out the year, his repeated requests to be anywhere but here, and his schmoozing with McNab and Belichick during games. You don’t want to be here? Fine. Don’t be here. You want to improve the organization, to lead? Do it by example.
The wife analogy was just trying to quantify the emotional environment of the diehard, lifelong fan. And, yeah, it borders at times on the irrational.
by IgnatiusJReilly on Apr 7, 2009 7:23 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
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