Titans Owner Bud Adams Discusses Chris Johnson
Written by Bob Whalon, Sunday August 21 2011
Tennessee Titans star running back Chris Johnson missed his second preseason game on Saturday against the Rams and has missed the first three weeks of training camp, as part of his holdout for a new contract. On Sunday, Titans owner Bud Adams finally got involved. Unfortunately for Johnson, Adams is backing his general manager.
"I'm not going to make an offer with the way he's acting. Life's too short," Adams said.
As a matter of fact, the Titans have not made any official contract offers to Johnson, even though general manager Mike Reinfelt said two weeks ago that the team was willing to make Johnson the highest-paid running back in NFL history.
Adams said that he will not step into the negotiations and fully supports his GM. "No, I'm leaving that up to Mike Reinfelt to work that out," Adams said. "[Johnson] has got two years on his contract right now. Now, he wants more money, I guess, but he can be fined ($30,000 per day) for not reporting. You add all that up and it's a pretty good bit."
Complicating matters for the Titans is the mega-deal that Arizona Cardinals wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald just signed (eight years, $120 million with $50 guaranteed). The Carolina Panthers just signed running back DeAngelo Williams to a $43 million deal, but Johnson and his agent, Joel Segal, apparently want far more than that.
"I'm just hoping he'll come in and start playing for us. But I don't know, it doesn't look like it," Adams said. They're not getting any results out of his not showing up though. These agents sometimes get carried away and don't really tell the player what their position is. It's hard for me to believe that he wouldn't want to come in and start playing. I hope that he will make his mind up here pretty quick."
As of Sunday, Johnson had missed 23 days of training camp. At $30,000 per day, that would amount to $690,000 in fines already. The money isn't really an issue if the two sides reach an agreement on a new deal, but with Adams ramping up the rhetoric, one doesn't appear imminent.
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