So Chad Johnson said again Wednesday that he wants to be traded?
Does anybody have a mute button?
Johnson keeps saying the same thing over and over again. Yes, we get it. You're not happy in Cincinnati. But the Bengals receiver has to understand that coach Marvin Lewis will not trade him.
Lewis is insistent on that.
Johnson is trying to force his way out of town. The Bengals, who would take an $8 million cap hit to trade him, aren't biting.
Johnson has threatened to sit out the season if he doesn't get traded. There's no way that happens. He can't leave big money on the table, not with only so many earning years in his body.
For now, it's an all-out ambush on the organization, trying to get free.
When it becomes apparent the team will not trade him, Johnson will sheepishly come to camp this summer and show up to play. And he'll play well -- and hard. That's what he does.
He won't be sitting on a couch somewhere watching Carson Palmer throw to someone else. He needs the spotlight. They all do. He’ll be playing. They all eventually do.
Even someone as stubborn as "Ocho Cinco" has to realize that.
