Chris Johnson Wants to Be the Highest Paid Back in NFL
by Jimmy on Feb 1, 2010 8:05 PM CST
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PrintAnd who can blame him really? He is coming off arguably the best season ever by a running back, but what I love about CJ is that he says it won't be an issue:
"Hopefully they’ll want to give me a new deal. I think I deserve to be the highest paid running back in the league, or even the highest paid offensive player besides the quarterback,’’ said Johnson, who scored the game-winning touchdown in Sunday night’s Pro Bowl.
"But it’s not like I am not going out in the media saying, ‘Pay me, I want a new deal now.’ I am just saying, if they were to pay me, I want that. Hopefully they want that, too.
Wyatt's article goes on to talk about the contracts of Steven Jackson (5 year, $48.5 mil), Maurice Jones-Drew (5 year, $31 mil), and Clinton Portis (6 year, $49.1 mil). When looking at those numbers it is easy to see that CJ, who signed a rookie deal worth $12 million, has outperformed his deal, but if I were him I wouldn't be holding my breath for the Titans to pay him. They are going to keep him under that rookie contract as long as they possibly can.
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I don't get this
"Hopefully they’ll want to give me a new deal. I think I deserve to be the highest paid running back in the league, or even the highest paid offensive player besides the quarterback,’’ said Johnson, who scored the game-winning touchdown in Sunday night’s Pro .
and then he says:
"But it’s not like I am not going out in the media saying, ‘Pay me, I want a new deal now.’ I am just saying, if they were to pay me, I want that. Hopefully they want that, too.’’
Isn’t he doing exactly that?
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by Aditya T (smashville) on Feb 1, 2010 8:12 PM CST reply actions
I think what he means
Is that he isn’t saying pay me or else..
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"What if I was Peyton Manning?"- CJ to the ref after they picked up a personal foul flag for a late hit on him.
My thoughts as well
Most running back coming off that season playing under his current contract would be saying “Make my pay #1 or you won’t see me come training camp.”
I have always felt that was a crock of shit too. If a player can hold out and refuse to play under his current deal if he has a good season, a team should have the right to cut a player’s pay after a bad season without actually having to cut the player. I thought the whole point of a contract is to agree to terms and then stick to them.
heh
probably doesn’t consider Wyatt to be media :P
he might not get a new deal this offseason
but I would be surprised if he didn’t get one at the end of next season
Has any player ever
been “bought out” of a rookie contract before it was up, because they performed so spectacularly well that their team felt guilty about what they were paying them?
Ever? Even once?
I doubt it.
Getting a CJ on a modest rookie budget is the opposite end of the spectrum from paying 50 skazillion dollars for an upper first round pick that does exactly jack diddily squat. It’s a balance. CJ, you are balancing Leinart, etc. While I love CJ, I can’t cry to much for him here, unless they fixed the massive overpayment of rookies at the top of the draft. Fix that, and part of that deal could be something that lets a high performing rookie get a new deal.
It actually does happen
The Titans did it either last year of the year before with Finnegan, Roos and Stewart. They were probably willing to take less money than CJ is though.
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"What if I was Peyton Manning?"- CJ to the ref after they picked up a personal foul flag for a late hit on him.
It's not about the cost
The team wants to tie the player up with a long-term deal before UFA hits. But unless there’s a new CBA, CJ is looking at another 4 years before he’s a UFA, so the team has no reason to try to tie him up now. If it weren’t for that, they might try, to avoid the possibility of Dan Snyder offering him Portis’ contract + 20% in when he’s restricted, which the Titans would have to match to keep him, even though he’d probably sign Portis’ contract + 5%.
show him da $!
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by stetix01 on Feb 2, 2010 5:25 AM CST reply actions
Hopefully they give him a new deal next year.
I think 3 years of sustained excellence would be enough.
Ain't no time for hesitatin'
All you got to do is groove
No way that happens
If there’s no new agreement, there won’t be a player in the NFL that gets a raise next year. Owner’s aren’t going to give raises to employees about to strike. It’s even going to make it harder to get a new contract this off-season, even with at least next year to play.
Unless CJ plans to hold out, which he said he isn't
It would be dumb to do a new deal after this season, because he’d go from underpaid to overpaid very quickly. Better to give him a new deal after this upcoming season when his numbers will be a little less ridiculous.
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This scares the hell out of me:
Wyatt’s article goes on to talk about the contracts of Steven Jackson (5 year, $48.5 mil), Maurice Jones-Drew (5 year, $31 mil), and Clinton Portis (6 year, $49.1 mil).
Not any of the top 3 paid RBs in the league are anywhere close to contending for a Super Bowl.
What does that mean for CJ?
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OK, that is worded poorly in the story
We know that Steven Jackson is the top paid RB, but he doesn’t specify if Jones-Drew and Portis are 2-3 on the list.
But still.
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yeah, but one of those contracts came from Dan Snyder
so you have to throw that one out…
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To answer your question, it means if CJ wants to wi n a Super Bowl he better hope Vince turns into a Super Bowl caliber QB
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by T--Rac's Posse on Feb 2, 2010 10:29 AM CST up reply actions
Do you think VY can do it?
I feel like he’s matured very much and has improved tremendously as a quarterback.
The two Super Bowl QB’s have combined so far for 9955 yards: as much as I want to believe….
VY has toyed with my emotions too much! I’m a wreck!
pay the man!
He just set the nfl record for yards from scrimmage and is clearly the best back in the league. Its only fair that he is paid as such.
by vancouverTITAN on Feb 2, 2010 1:21 PM CST via mobile reply actions
What about AP?
Peterson was clearly the best back in the league last year, but this season he wasn’t. The best player at a position at the end of each season should not necessarily be bumped to the highest paid at that position.
well they would pay ap
but he’d probably drop the check
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by SouthTexasTitan on Feb 2, 2010 2:52 PM CST up reply actions
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