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Quoth the emodiment of Malkovich in Malkovich’s head:

“I’m not sure what’s going to happen. … I’ve been labeled as selfish, as the reason we’re losing. I’ve been told I’ve been a cancer to my team.To do me the way I was done, not too many people really having my back within.”Now the season is over,” Johnson said on ESPN radio. “I was the problem, I have been a distraction. Chad Johnson, the fingers were pointed at me. My celebrations, all this stuff was the reason we were losing. The only thing for me to do or say now is, if you guys, as a team and organization, want to further yourself in the playoffs, I think you need to get rid of what the problem was during the season.”

Well. That’s quite a mouthful, talented dickhead person.

Two possibilities:

1. Johnson’s feeling are actually hurt that anyone who has watched his brand of selfishness eat away at an organization and begged him to grow the fuck up have that opinion.

2. This will be the start of an organized Evil Incarnate-led (Drew Rosenhaus) off-season campaign to force Johnson out of Cincinnati.

If its the latter, I am rooting like hell for Evil Incarnate. Yes, please, talk some other team into Johnson. Give the Bengals a 3rd rounder for him. Done. And, don’t get me wrong, Johnson is ridiculously talented. And intermittently productive. But the disappearing in big games? The running out of bounds instead of trying for a few extra yards? The allergy to downfield blocking? All of those sins, combined with the non-stop me-me-me-me-me-me-me-me stuff from Johnson has brought him to the point in Cincy where I can assure you, as it comes to the Bengals, he is more trouble than he is worth.

At any rate, looking at Johnson’s quotes up above, he WAS a cancer to the team last year. He IS selfish. And he was one of the reasons the Bengals were 7-9 last year. He was a distraction, his celebration-thing long since has stopped being entertaining. To this Bengals fan, it was entertaining maybe the first time. If Johnson had ever grown up, he would acknowledge his role in the team’s failure, and his need to improve in significant areas, and make the leap to team leader. Instead, he continues to be a two-year-old locked in a 30-year-old’s body. Time for that to go somewhere else.

Make it so, EI.