AGrizzlyBaer Posted February 16, 2005 Report Posted February 16, 2005 off bengals.com The news turned out to be about as surprising as one of the waves washing up next to him on the Hawaiian beach Tuesday morning. Head coach Marvin Lewis had informed his Pro Bowl running back a few days ago that the Bengals would use their franchise tag on him, and like all good running backs, Rudi Johnson was thinking about his next move. It was not reiterating his threat to sit out if the Bengals franchised him for one year at $6.3 million, which officially happened Tuesday. It is, instead, focusing on March 16, the last day he has to reach a long-term contract with the Bengals before negotiations halt for the spring and can’t start again until July 15. “I still think we’re going to get it done somehow, some way,” Johnson said Tuesday from Hawaii. His agent, Peter Schaffer, is wondering because of Tuesday’s irony. “The proposal we sent them last week has a lower (annual) average than the franchise number,” Schaffer said. Here is Johnson’s frame of mind less than 48 hours after he was the AFC’s leading rusher on The Island in Sunday’s Pro Bowl.
cover2 Posted February 16, 2005 Report Posted February 16, 2005 What is the price for Rudi? Will 4.5 get it done? Let's just hope it does and way before the last day of training camp. So what does the Bengal brain trust do from here? Wait or make an offer. Does the team draft a RB or sign one?
skyline Posted February 16, 2005 Report Posted February 16, 2005 I'm going to close this. Check out the other threads already started on this
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