Look we all know that the NFL and professional sports in general operate on a different economic level. I'm not here to debate whether it makes sense for somebody to make $10 million dollars a year to dribble a basketball or kick a field goal. Understood? Got that out of the way? Good. Now I can talk about Chris Johnson's situation without that other baggage. Anyhoo RB Chris Johnson is starting to get a lot of flak in the press and the public for his threat to hold out until he renegotiates his contract. He's coming up on the third year of a 5 year deal and is set to make $550,000 in 2010. Having outperformed his contract in 2009 (2000 plus yards from scrimmage) he not surprisingly wants to get paid. My opinion: he's absolutely right. Owners have no right to bitch about these situations at all because when a player underperforms and has a lucrative contract they usually ask him to renegotiate his contract. And if the player refuses? More than likely they get cut. Why shouldn't the reverse be true? If you outperform your contract wouldn't it be logical to try to renegotiate your contract, especially when the average NFL player's career is 3 years? It's not like baseball where if you sign a contract the team has to pay it. The only guaranteed money is the signing bonus. You have to make your money while you can. If this was a matter of Johnson wanting 10 million dollars and the Titans were only offering nine I'd tell 28 to suck it. That's not the case though. This guy is getting paid chump change by NFL standards for what he brings to the table. And seriously Tennessee do you want to leave your running game to Lendell "I dropped 30 pounds by not drinking tequila" White? Bud Adams do your fan base a favor, retract that middle finger that you like to wag around, open the cash register, and pay the man.
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