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Diontae Johnson


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41 minutes ago, scpanther22 said:

You have to be Steve Smith good to have the kind attitude Johnson does and get away with it lol

Prime Smitty wouldn't have gotten this many chances. Maybe Moss or Megatron. Maybe. Antonio Brown and Josh Gordon were much better than Diontae could ever dream of being.

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And you know every team after Carolina had a long discussion with him before signing about how he was on a short leash. And this dude still wrecked his family's future. Selfish mofo.

Or maybe he's playing 4D chess and trying to get the bag and a Lombardi at KC. Nah, Andy ain't putting up with that foolishness. 

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7 minutes ago, NAS said:

This makes Morgan and Canales look like geniuses for getting anything out of him and for him

Well, maybe not geniuses. He was actually getting attention which seems to be his whole problem.

I’ll play devil’s advocate here and say if we didn’t trade for him we would have 1) saved $9.4M in cap and cash and 2) we might have drafted McConkey.

I won’t call us geniuses when we altered our team for him and paid most of his money. The picks basically cancel out since we got Pittsburgh’s late 7th and got the Ravens’ late 5th and gave up two 6ths. We would have been better if we just dumped Donte to save $12M in cap space and drafted our Diontae Johnson.

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19 minutes ago, Navy_football said:

Prime Smitty wouldn't have gotten this many chances. Maybe Moss or Megatron. Maybe. Antonio Brown and Josh Gordon were much better than Diontae could ever dream of being.

Prime smitty beat half our db room up and still got treated as a leader lol trust me he would’ve been safe he was more than good enough . 

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Honestly I’m amazed by his fall from grace. On the field he was great for us when healthy for a while. Dude was getting open at will, and had surprising YAC ability too. But clearly shows how much behind the scenes stuff matter and we never know about

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