Michael Johnson status

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After a career year, Johnson is now a free agent for the first time in his career, and while he’ll surely draw interest from teams around the league, he said he’s hoping to remain a Bengal.

“I would like to stay in Cincinnati. You can always find something wrong with your current position, but the grass is not always greener on the other side,” Johnson said. “This is the team that’s drafted me, they believed in me over everybody else, I’m embedded in the community up there, my teammates love me, the coaches and the owners. Everybody wants me to be there. I’m not against staying, whether that’s a long-term deal or if I was to get a franchise tag. However we can work it out, I would like to be a Cincinnati Bengal.”

Johnson said he’s built a strong bond with his team in Cincinnati.

“[Bengals leadership] and my agent are talking now and he sends me updates. From what he told me, they really, really want me back — the owners, the coaches, my teammates as well,” Johnson said. “We’ve developed a nice brotherhood amongst us as a team. That’s not always the case in every NFL locker room. We hang out together, we’re like high school teammates or college teammates. Our families hang out together, it’s a different environment up there.”

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[DanBengalfan]

This is a good thing I hope.

 

[ckhokie]

This is a good thing I hope.

Regardless of how it turns out, it definitely isn't the same thing we're used to hearing.

 

[CrashDavisSports]

The Bengals have one of the best defensive lines in all of football, it has been the leading foundation to this team. We have gobs of money to spend this offseason, I can't imagine Johnson and Dunlap not getting new contracts, along with Gilberry. Then Adkins is about to hit the mother load. Be the second biggest contract in Bengals history right behind Palmer.

They will spend money on the defensive line.

 

[CrashDavisSports]

Regardless of how it turns out, it definitely isn't the same thing we're used to hearing.

Johnson comes from a small family I think, and he was a good student, kept his nose clean, and family is very important to him. People like Johnson actually appreciate the approach in which Mike Brown deploys here. It is a small family atmosphere. Mike Brown will continue to show you loyalty as long as you give him the same respect, and he will make the environment good.

While trying to break out of our miserable existance there for a while, we kept taking too many questionable attitudes, and it hurt our reputation, but since we have reinfused some talent in this team, they have been able to make smarter decisions on personnell and Michael Johnson was one of those decisions back when he was drafted.

Dre Kirkpatrick is cut from the same cloth as Johnson I believe, and if he can stay healthy and prove to be a good DB, Mike Brown will show him loyalty, and I think Dre will welcome it back. The big city attitudes who are all about the money are the ones that hate it here, and understandable if that is what their passion is for.

 

[cincygrad]

Wow.... This is a far cry from Corey Dillon flipping hamburgers.

What's going on here?

 

[jwil007]

Johnson comes from a small family I think, and he was a good student, kept his nose clean, and family is very important to him. People like Johnson actually appreciate the approach in which Mike Brown deploys here. It is a small family atmosphere. Mike Brown will continue to show you loyalty as long as you give him the same respect, and he will make the environment good.

While trying to break out of our miserable existance there for a while, we kept taking too many questionable attitudes, and it hurt our reputation, but since we have reinfused some talent in this team, they have been able to make smarter decisions on personnell and Michael Johnson was one of those decisions back when he was drafted.

Dre Kirkpatrick is cut from the same cloth as Johnson I believe, and if he can stay healthy and prove to be a good DB, Mike Brown will show him loyalty, and I think Dre will welcome it back. The big city attitudes who are all about the money are the ones that hate it here, and understandable if that is what their passion is for.

Couldn't have said it any better! 100% agree.... Get the deal done. Atkins, Johnson and Smith should be 123 maybe not in that order but you all know what Im sayin....That's a different sound than what we normally have heard...

 

[kramer1]

I'd be absolutely shocked if he's retained.

 

[bengaldoug]

The real test will come when someone just blows him away with a monstrous offer that Mike just won't match because it will "upset his salary system". And someone will blow him away.

 

[cincygrad]

We'll give our big money to Tits..... Tits will gain 50 pounds and have a stress fracture in his foot by the third week of the preseason.

We'll low ball MJ and he'll leave disillusioned.

I'm sure he'll be talking about free deodorant and gatorade and other perks of playing for other teams in no time.

 

[bengaldoug]

We'll give our big money to Tits..... Tits will gain 50 pounds and have a stress fracture in his foot by the third week of the preseason.

We'll low ball MJ and he'll leave disillusioned.

I'm sure he'll be talking about free deodorant and gatorade and other perks of playing for other teams in no time.

This makes perfect sense to me....who dey?

 

[kramer1]

Mike Brown will find a way to skirt the supposed salary cap rule. You can bet your ass he will.

 

[DanBengalfan]

he'd rather just come close and pay the fines, which will come out of the Bengals share of the NFL royalties.

 

[flamingrey]

AJ Green + the D-line + Andre Smith should be #1 priority for this team.

If they can't do that..."they are who we thought they were."

 

[kramer1]

AJ Green + the D-line + Andre Smith should be #1 priority for this team.

If they can't do that..."they are who we thought they were."

They were who we thought they were a decade ago.

 

[Servo]

AJ Green + the D-line + Andre Smith should be #1 priority for this team.

If they can't do that..."they are who we thought they were."

Under the new CBA they can't extend Green until I think next year...definitely not this year. Atkins can and should be extended. Dre should be signed long term. However, I'd be leary of throwing a bunch of dough at MJ...I'd say franchise him.

 

[vancelot23]

Can't negotiate with Green til next year.

 

[DanBengalfan]

Can't negotiate with Green til next year.

why can't people get this through their f'n heads!!!

 

[flamingrey]

Under the new CBA they can't extend Green until I think next year...definitely not this year. Atkins can and should be extended. Dre should be signed long term. However, I'd be leary of throwing a bunch of dough at MJ...I'd say franchise him.

I was generalizing. End of the day, whatever moves they make this year should be in anticipation of signing Green to a large extension.

Green and the d-line make this team with Andre Smith a definite building block on the o-line.

 

[kramer1]

I was generalizing. End of the day, whatever moves they make this year should be in anticipation of signing Green to a large extension.

Green and the d-line make this team with Andre Smith a definite building block on the o-line.

Without a QB we won't do shit. We do not currently have a QB.