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For most of us we've seen it before, the most famous being Kurt Warner with the St. Louis Rams years ago. A team signs a player off of the streets and he comes in a gets such a firm grip on the job that it's nearly impossible or necessary to move him. Josh Johnson was a man playing pick-up basketball games just over a week ago when Washington came calling. He entered the game, albeit, one that was already decided and gave a moribund offense something that it hadn't offered in the greater part of the season...A spark!
At this point nobody believes that it's possible for Johnson to become a Kurt Warner type story, but, what if he does? What happens if this mathematically alive franchise is suddenly able to move the ball, maybe even score with a bit more rapidity and offers an exhausted defensive squad reason to rest more in games then play better than it has lately because there is reason to believe? Confidence is a strange thing in sports, it comes and goes for any number of reasons.
Last week we all saw something when Johnson entered the game, most poo-poo'd what he did as resulting from a lost cause of a game and there's nothing in his history that would lead anyone to believe that he is anything more than what he's always been...EXCEPT... himself and the realization that for him, this is that one last opportunity to win and keep a NFL job just like Warner. I know, this is totally different, beyond winning a job. We'd all be surprised if Johnson positively answered the question, What if?... but we're thinking, Naw, right?
At this point nobody believes that it's possible for Johnson to become a Kurt Warner type story, but, what if he does? What happens if this mathematically alive franchise is suddenly able to move the ball, maybe even score with a bit more rapidity and offers an exhausted defensive squad reason to rest more in games then play better than it has lately because there is reason to believe? Confidence is a strange thing in sports, it comes and goes for any number of reasons.
Last week we all saw something when Johnson entered the game, most poo-poo'd what he did as resulting from a lost cause of a game and there's nothing in his history that would lead anyone to believe that he is anything more than what he's always been...EXCEPT... himself and the realization that for him, this is that one last opportunity to win and keep a NFL job just like Warner. I know, this is totally different, beyond winning a job. We'd all be surprised if Johnson positively answered the question, What if?... but we're thinking, Naw, right?