And mind you, the guy’s threatening to sit out the 2008-09 NFL season if he doesn’t get one.

THAT probably means we have seen the last of Chad Johnson in a Cincinnati Bengals uniform. Now, if only Bill Belichick knew this sooner, he could’ve just signed the guy to the Patriots too and maybe, we’ll have a different result at Super Bowl XLII eh?

With the Cincinnati Bengals finding a new primary option on offense, that being T.J. Houshmandzadeh, and probably because they just can’t win on any football field too, ”Ocho Cinco” Chad Johnson wants no part of the Cincinnati Bengals next season. Hell, I don’t blame him.

In fairness to Chad Johnson, he started feeling this way after his coach, Marvin Lewis, just stopped talking to him early in the season. Johnson also claims he always gets the blame after every loss and it certainly looks like Ocho Cinco himself is sick and tired of it.

”I’m not allowed to say. I get the blame; the so-called best player, I’m the problem. Someone in-house is spreading this. Maybe they want me to quiet down [and] stop being me. That is not going to happen. I can’t function that way. I tried it. It sucked. There was no excitement,” Chad Johnson said.

The Cincinnati Bengals head coach, on the other hand, says he won’t trade Johnson. After all, he did finish with a single-season franchise-record 1,440 receiving yards.

Chad Johnson also had six consecutive seasons with at least 1,000 receiving yards so trading a guy with his caliber is like hitting your right hand with a goddamn sledgehammer.

Besides, he is under contract with the Cincinnati Bengals through the 2011 season after signing a whopping $35.5 million extension in 2006. THAT means, he and his coach have to work this out because the Bengals organization ain’t doing shit.

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