Chad Johnson has decided to make nice with the Cincinnati Bengals.  For those of you readers, Sportaphile.com wrote a few articles about the soap opera between the Bengals, Marvin Lewis, and Ocho Cinco.  They are here, here, and here.  

The only question is will this tear the Bengals apart or will they come together?  He might have recanted but he didn’t shut up. 

“If we want to be like Indy and New England, we have to pay and bring in some difference-makers on defense,” Johnson said. “Our offense is fine. But if they’re fussing about paying a guy like me, a guy among the best in the league, you know damn well the Bengals aren’t gonna supply the defense with what it needs. So I just said, ‘If we aren’t gonna do what we need to make us win — can I please leave?’ It’s simple. I just told ‘em: ‘If y’all won’t change, then I have to.’”

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