Titan Stupidity

As a football fan, I hate holdouts. I just don't understand them. Getting paid to play football is just too dreamy to stay away. Holdouts hurt everybody involved. The player loses. The team loses. Even if the player gains money in the end, both he and his teammates lose by his absence. In my opinion, it's a stupid way of doing football business.The current holdout of Tennessee Titans runningback Chris Johnson is perhaps the most stupid that I've seen.

Titans general manager Mike Reinfeldt is saying that the team is willing to make Johnson the highest paid back in the league. Johnson says that he hasn't received an offer. Both sides are talking but not to the other. The team has all the parameters of a contract worked out, but they haven't worked anything out with Johnson. Something is missing. Most call it a negotiation. It's one of those things that usually leads to an agreement. The Titans want Johnson to come to the facilities before they make that offer. Johnson wants a contract before he comes to the facilities. It's ridiculous.

Johnson, a late first round pick, has clearly outperformed a contract that has two years remaining. He deserves a new one. The Titans actually agree. It's just stunning that there is even an issue. I've never thought that a holdout was the best way of going about getting a new contract. I always figured that a team might be more willing to renegotiate a new contract if the player is honoring the old one. A holdout certainly doesn't generate good will. The Titans are talking to the media instead of talking to Johnson. It's a stupid twisted Titan circle.

This will get worked out. The funny thing is that as soon as the Titans make Johnson the highest paid back the Vikings will make Adrian Peterson the highest paid back.


RIP Eagles Hall of Fame end Pete Pihos