Actually Cowboys minority owner Mike McCoy came up with it, Jimmy just used it well.
The Cowboys have a minority owner? Really?
The draftniks seem almost certain that a deal has already been struck with Jake Long by the Dolphins. One can assume that he’ll get less than JaMarcus Russell money.
If I had to bet I’d say his deal (if one exists) very closely parallels whatever the Browns gave Joe Thomas.
They did when Jerry bought the team. I’m not sure when he was bought out.
I just can’t imagine anyone wanting to work with Jerry Jones- although I guess it was a rather good investment.
Chad Johnson is demanding a trade out of Cincy, refusing to attend any team functions (mandatory or otherwise) until he is dealt. Interesting situation.
I ask this of you all. Say you’re the Eagles. You need a #1 WR (Johnson may not be anymore, but he is still treated like one for purposes of defensive game planning). You have a piece to trade with (Lito Sheppard). The Eagles have a bad history with immature diva WRs, but they came within a play or two of winning a Super Bowl with said diva WR. Do you make a trade?
Couple things. The Eagles have regressed quite a bit since the TO season. They’ve gotten older and have lost some pieces. I’m not buying that they are one playmaker away from the Division title let alone the Super Bowl. More importantly Chad Johnson has a huge cap number and is looking for a new deal. Any team that adds him is going to have to have a bunch of cap room for the next 3 or 4 seasons to sign him. That’s a really short list of teams that could afford him, I don’t know if the Eagles are one of those teams or not.
If they can afford him and have the pieces to make the trade I think I would if I were them assuming you aren’t giving up any young, cheap talent to make it work. I’m not sure what Lito’s deal is, but taking on that salary and giving up draft picks would have to be a deal breaker. If it’s a 1-for-1 swap between him and Lito I see no reason not to do it, both teams are getting something they need and are getting rid of a problem.
It’s so late in FA that the odds of anything happening except this type of big contract-for-big contract swap are almost nil. Teams have already used up their budgets and filled their major holes. If, however, one of those teams in the top 10 picks who are desperately looking to trade down decide that it’s not a possibility they might be willing to take on CJ in exchange for that #1 pick so long as they got middle-rounder back. It will be interesting to see if this effects draft day.
He’s still a #1. He’s been among the top three receivers in the AFC for virtually his entire career, and he had 1,440 yards last season, for all that people called it a “down year”.
I make the trade in about three seconds, but I don’t think the Bengals will give him up for just Sheppard.
Sadly, the bengals don’t need a DB right now. We need to move up to get a DT like Ellis/Dorsey, or trade down if they aren’t there at 9.
Every time Chad opens his mouth he hurts his trade value for the Bengals.
Thanks, Drew Rosendouche.
Chad puts up meaningless gaudy stats. The Bengals manage to lose with him, they can lose without him and be better off in the long run. And fwiw, again, the Bengals do not need a DB!.
They need defensive line, oline depth, RB and WR (especially in light of Henry being cut and Chad now banging his spoon on his high chair a little louder).
Chad doesn’t find the endzone enough, it’s his achilles. Yards are nothing to the Bengals offense, they can move it between the twenties just fine. It’s the damn red-zone ineffeciency that kills them.
Chad had five of his whopping eight TD’s in TWO games last year (two against the Dolphins in a meaningless game), leaving 3 TD’s spread out over the other 14 games. Elite WR to me is scoring more than yards.
He’s scored 46 touchdowns in the six seasons since he became a full-time starter- an average of almost exactly eight per season, and averaged better than 1,300 yards. Most #1 wideouts produce more than two 1300-8 seasons in their entire careers.
Hines Ward, for example, has broken 1,300 yards once (1,329) and scored eight or more TDs three times - in a ten-year career (and only did both in the same season once).
Tim Brown did it three times and four times, respectively, over a 17-year career, and did both in the same season just twice.
Anyway, any fantasy football player will tell you that he’s not normally a boom-or-bust player. He is fearsomely consistent, in fact.
If you want to grade receivers by touchdowns, fine - but it doesn’t make sense, because the sample size is so tiny. Not to mention the fact that some teams get run-happy in the red zone, and the Bengals are certainly one of them. Marvin Harrison gets far more scoring opportunities than Johnson because the Colts like to throw into the endzone.
Say what you will about his touchdown celebrations, his attitude or his personality, but you can’t deny that if he can produce six more years of the stats he put up in the last six, he’s going to the Hall of Fame on the first ballot.
One last thing- he put up those numbers with Peter “no longer in the league” Warrick on the other side of the field.
I get the impression that it’s financially impractical to trade Johnson, the accelerated bonus cap hit would require the Bengals to cut players.
They’re planning to close the roof on the stadium in Toronto that’s hosting the late season Bills game if the weather is bad. Apparently showcasing a class real out-in-the-elements game to Canadians isn’t a good marketing idea. Or maybe the spectators are pussies. I don’t know. Still seems silly.
Warrick hasn’t played NFL football for the Bengals since 2004…
I forgot to mention that Chad also has horrible YAC because he falls down after making catches in the middle of the field because he ducks contact, refuses to block, has a horrible knack for either disappearing in big games or dropping crucial passes in them, cries and whines when he doesn’t perceive he’s getting the ball enough, just yesterday called out his QB to ESPN, is a total douchebag fuckface selfish, arrogant, third-person-talking asshole…where do the other NFL franchises sign up? Fucking drama queen.
And the story the Bengals are spinning about not trading him due to financial concerns is a bit overstated. They could trade or cut him after June 1st and prorate his cap hit over the '08 AND '09 seasons. The cap will go up in 2009. The Bengals wouldn’t have to pay his salary or workout bonuses for those two years, so that mitigates the whole deal to about $3 mil in dead money, which in today’s NFL is peanuts and well worth it to get rid of this fucker and possibly get something good in return.
Chad lost $250,000 by not showing up for voluntaries! 250k is shit to him, but is 4 year’s salary for me!
It’s not much, but if they’re up against the cap now, they’d have to cut players or not sign their draft picks to free that money up.
Fair enough.
He put up half those numbers with Warrick on the other side of the field, then.
He’s averaged 15.0 yards per catch over his career. According to this site, his YAC in 2006 (the only season I found numbers for) was 14th among all wide receivers. Hardly “horrible”.
That’s a rule in the NFL. I’ve never understood (or even heard any of) the reasoning behind it, but any venue with a retractable roof is required to close it in inclement weather.
This came up when the Giants were planning their new stadium. The idea was that a retractable roof would be the best of both worlds, attracting a Superbowl while still allowing normal games to be in the elements. When it was discovered that a retractable roof meant no weather ever, the idea was abandoned.
Uber-missed the edit window.
That was supposed to say “most #1 WRs don’t produce more than two 1300-8 seasons…”