LJ’s Time Has Come

It’s been a nice run.  Seven years with one team is quite an accomplishment for any player.  But it’s time for Larry Johnson’s time with the Kansas City Chiefs to come to an end.

Even though he couldn’t stop himself from drinking too much and/or physically confronting women, LJ had seemingly grown up.

“Larry wants to be a Kansas City Chiefs!”, his agent exclaimed.

“He’s a different man!”, we were told.

But nothing has changed.  Larry was still only looking out for one person: Larry.  He played nice so Scott Pioli and Todd Haley would keep him on the roster and guarantee him his $3+ million dollar salary for the year.

Now that he has his money and the Chiefs are struggling, all of a sudden he is back to sounding a lot like the old Larry, which was really never the old Larry because the new Larry never existed (got that?).

“This is what this organization has been doing since I’ve been here,” Johnson said in the locker room Sunday.  “This is my third head coach in seven years I’ve been here.  It seems like this is what we keep doing: going back to the drawing board.  We bring in new coaches, new organization, new schemes, new mentality, new attitude.”

You want to write that off as some frustration after a bad loss?  Fine, I wont’ argue with that.  But the not-so-wise veteran decided to take that same frustration to Twitter (these are all sic’d, obviously).

“My father played for the coach from ‘rememeber the titans’. Our coach played golf. My father played for redskins briefley.  Our coach. Nuthn”

For those of you that don’t know, Todd Haley went to college on a golf scholarship.  He never played competitive football at any level.

Citing frustrations with losing is one thing.  Calling out your coach for not being qualified to be your coach is a whole other animal.  And that would be bad enough if he stopped there.  No, the “new” LJ decided he wanted to attack some fans that didn’t appreciate his attitude (you can check out a screen capture over at Arrowhead Pride including the Haley tweet that has since been deleted).

“think bout a clever diss then that wit ur f** pic. Christopher street boy. Is what us east coast cats call u.”

“Still richer then u. Keep goin. Come play our game ooops forgot u can’t.”

Stay classy, LJ!

I can’t imagine Haley and Pioli need to see or hear anything else that would make them feel the need to keep Johnson and his 2.7 yards per carry on the active roster.

I say active roster because don’t let him to and try to catch on with another team, even if he would only be a headache.  Fine him for conduct detrimental to the team and suspend him for as long as you think you can get away with it.

And finally keep him on the roster, deactivated for the remainder of the season.  If his money is already guaranteed, let him sit at home and count his money while he figures out how he will convince a team to take a chance on him next season.

Thanks for the memories Larry, but your time has come.

Tags: Larry Johnson, Todd Haley, Twitter