Chiefs release Larry Johnson
People from Kansas City saw this one coming a mile away.
To say that the Kansas City Chiefs are having a campaign to forget this 2009 NFL football season could be an understatement. After earning their first win of the season when they beat the Washington Redskins two weeks ago, they are once again losing games. These guys are currently on a two-game losing skid and I don’t see anything that could change the Chiefs’ fortunes for the immediate future.
Of course, that won’t stop the Kansas City Chiefs from making some moves. And they may have made the biggest one yet. You see, the Chiefs have finally let franchise running back Larry Johnson go and for the first time in the Pro Bowler’s career, he’s no longer welcome in Kansas.
After seven years playing in Kansas City, Larry Johnson was finally released by the Chiefs on the same day that he was due back from his second suspension in the past 12 months. Is this just a matter of the Chiefs getting rid of excess baggage or is Kansas City letting go of a solid running back who still has a few good years left in him?
The rest of the NFL thinks the latter.
Teams like the Chicago Bears and the Houston Texans have already expressed their desire of signing a player of Johnson’s caliber as soon as they learned that the Chiefs have finally released him. Will we see a deal done soon?
”Any player that’s available, we look at,” Chicago Bears head coach Lovie Smith said. ”That’s been our standard policy throughout. That’ll be the case with Larry.”
”When a name like that comes on the free agent market like today, we’ll obviously go back and take a look at him just like any other player,” Houston Texans head coach Gary Kubiak said. ”Obviously, he’s been a good player in this league and I’m sure he’ll get a lot of interest from a lot of people.”
But will the Bears and the Texans risk all the other shit that comes along with having a guy like Larry Johnson on your team.
You see, the guy has been high maintenance ever since the Chiefs drafted him back in ‘03. Johnson was pissed because he initially wanted to play for the Pittsburgh Steelers coming out of college. Then he was pissed again when he learned that he’ll play backup to then Chiefs running back Priest Holmes. He even prompted then Chiefs coach Dick Vermeil to ”take the diapers off.”
His latest one may have done it for KC. For all ya’ll who didn’t know, he blasted current Chiefs head coach Todd Haley on Twitter, insulted followers and let out a gay slur.
Congratulations Larry, you are now jobless.
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