June 1 Deadline - Chad Still Silent

Since before the draft, everyone has pointed to June 1st or after as the day we might
be bidding Chad Johnson goodbye. Well, that day has come and gone and now as the
summer heat approaches, everyone will get a tad crazier and more inclined to accept
the hairbrained as logical. Like Chad walking away from football to work on his golf
game so that he might one day be able to play on the senior tour.

I, for one, don't care one way or the other whether Chad holds out or we trade him or he goes off to live and run in the mountains with Stephon Marbury. It just doesn't matter to me anymore. He's like a terminal patient, I have already written him off.

As for him being a distraction to the team, I find it hard to believe that he can be a bigger distraction this year than in any of the years passed. He would have to do something awful like giving the whole WR corps the plague to top his consistently ridiculous antics.

All of this animosity could also dissolve between him and the team come training camp when it dawns
on him that demanding things from Mike Brown is akin to demanding things from god, if anything you'll
get smote down before he accedes to your wishes. If anything, Chad will come slinking back to the
team, play hard for a couple games then go down with a mysterious injury just when the Bengals are
starting to get rolling on offense. Or if he really wanted to stick it ot Brown and Marvin and Cincinnati,
he would play his ass off all year and then go back to holding out and asking for a raise once we've made
the playoffs, painting Mikey into a corner where he might have to renegotiate with Chad instead of getting run out of town by West Siders rabid for playoff glory.