Poll: Do you want Chad Johnson with the Cincinnati Bengals?
by Kirkendall on Apr 9, 2009 9:18 PM EDT
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You know for the past week (actually the past year), we've constantly weighed our opinion on whether or not the Bengals should trade Johnson. Whether you think they should or not, is one thing. Whether they do, is another. Dave Lapham thinks that they're ready to trade him and fielding offers; even saying that many of the players on the team would drive him to the airport themselves.
People have weighed their opinion, and everyone is more than welcome to do it again if they want. However, now it's time for a poll. All I want is your numbers. Your opinion is always incredibly valuable to me -- provided you can actually talk about trading Johnson and not digging into the filth of sewerism by ripping other members here.
You have three options and this is only what you think, not what you expect the team to do. Do you think he should stay, should be traded, or simply outright released?
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Unless we get at least one 1st rounder, no deal!!
by Monkeyfeng on Apr 9, 2009 9:39 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Outright release would satisfy some, but with cap numbers and everything I doubt that will happen.
Now next year if he doesn’t shape up, I say ship his butt at any cost, including outright release.
by FriarBob on Apr 9, 2009 10:35 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Er, I mean that it really shouldn’t happen… we aren’t supposed to say what we think will happen, are we? Sorry about that…
by FriarBob on Apr 9, 2009 10:35 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
I would settle for a second rounder. That could end up being a Eric Wood or a Rashad Jennings.
by smoormandiddy on Apr 9, 2009 10:44 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Do not trade him
Its amazing how so much of you know whats going on in the locker room.
by Diesel2405 on Apr 9, 2009 10:55 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
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we could trade him for a 4th rounder to a good team and then he will be same old awesome chad and we get ripped off just like the stupid ass raiders with randy moss
by Diesel2405 on Apr 9, 2009 10:57 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Lap concurred.
Blogger at CincyJungle.com -- SB Nation Cincinnati Bengals blog.
by Kirkendall on Apr 9, 2009 11:16 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Sure, trade CJ, I’m sure Bubba ‘8 on the wonderlic’ Caldwell will figure out the offense someday. Jerome Simpson might even get onto the field by then. Heck, there are loads of elite NFL WRs on this team, who needs CJ? Why would the fans want a guy that makes a chump out of Champ Bailey and DeAngelo Hall at every opportunity?
by indesignkat on Apr 9, 2009 11:02 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Chad has put up huge numbers every year he has had a decent QB
A week ago we were talking about how less than 50% of Bengals 1st round picks were decent players. I’m sure that % drops of quickly going into the 2nd and 3rd rounds.
Chad is not the problem, and an extra pick is not the solution
by R.F. Mehl on Apr 9, 2009 11:04 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
133 votes
65% in favour of trading him.
Chad going back to being awesome or not is immaterial, the guy is over 30, when skill positions generally decline, he has a dodgy shoulder that has been allowed to heal naturally and there’s just the point of him being a distraction.
When Coles praises the young guys that’s the atmosphere you want to foster, not some declining superstar with an agent desperate for cash and him desperate for attention.
A decent offer and we should say our goodbyes. However, we do not have a WR that has shown consistently that they can step in as a starter, nor will we get the same value as would have been offered in the past.
Chad will certainly post better numbers than last year but there’s just too many risk factors now.
by Squizza on Apr 9, 2009 11:04 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Explain how you know he is a distraction?
65% of fans Im glad who aren’t making personel decisions. Probably the same people who wanted to sit Palmer and play Fitzpatrick.
Let chad do his thing and let coles mentor the young guys. Apparently he likes young men!
by Diesel2405 on Apr 9, 2009 11:11 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Dude, you're taking this way too personal
and that jab at Coles was inexcusable and uncalled for. How well he would or would not do with another team is irrelevant- or should be- to the decision to part ways with Chad. And, though we know no more than you about the locker room goings on, anyone with half a brain can infer, based on his behavior over the last eighteen months, that he is in fact a distraction.
by IgnatiusJReilly on Apr 10, 2009 2:17 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
and as far as the other 14% goes who just want to cut him
You people should probably put down the crackpipe.
by Diesel2405 on Apr 9, 2009 11:21 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
It's 67% now :)
If you listen closely you can hear the Chad apologists furiously attempting a rallying cry.
I agree he shouldn’t be cut, he still has some value. I admit the distraction argument is the weakest but it hardly helps team perception, something we’ve talked about recently as well as the Bengals seemingly lacking an identity.
Chad will decline in the next two years and at 33 will have zero value, I’d prefer we get something for him now rather than overpay for damaged goods over the next two years.
by Squizza on Apr 9, 2009 11:25 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
"I admit the distraction argument is the weakest"
Maybe. But Lapham says that many of his teammates would gladly drive him to the airport and I put more credence into what Lapham says about the locker room than anyone in the media — he talks to these guys a lot.
However, if I were to support trading Chad, it wouldn’t be that argument. Simply put. He doesn’t want to be here and a break might be best for Chad’s career — and the Bengals’ future.
Blogger at CincyJungle.com -- SB Nation Cincinnati Bengals blog.
by Kirkendall on Apr 9, 2009 11:31 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Trade Him
Trade him for someone who wants to get big numbers having a healthy Carson Palmer throwing too them. Let him go to the Raiders or any other team where he will be lucky to get 60 catches and 500 yrds because the QB sucks! Chad’s shot a hall a fame numbers has passed, he is a has-been with a big mouth. Unfortunately Chad does not command a #1 pick in a trade, maybe a #2 & #3. If we can get a #1 or a #2 & #3 in the 2010 draft then do it. The Bengals cannot afford to have to many more picks this year, lets take the picks when the salary cap goes away. Unload him now before his brand of cancer spreads even further into the fabric of the team.
by Vman in Germany on Apr 10, 2009 3:44 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Can't trade him
Remember when we forced Carl Pickens and (a few years later) Corey Dillon to stay? Those teams came together and were ridiculously awesome. Remember when Eric Cartman slayed a dragon in Jimmy Vulmer’s living room?
by bodacio on Apr 10, 2009 11:31 AM EDT reply actions 1 recs
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