The NFL, like most businesses except all the other sports, have the contracts designed to favor them. The fact they can cut someone who is under contract and pay them nothing should be equalled out by someone who can demand a pay raise when they are greatly overproducing their current contract. Pointing out that because of a bonus paid years ago makes his actual salary for this year higher still puts him below the normal compensation that a back of his ability would make. Unlike Revis I haven't heard that Johnson is trying to become the richest back in the league. The situation can't be compared to baseball because their careers are potentially much longer and those players are rare if they don't spend the first three years of their career in the minors.

Chris Johnson has lost his damn mind.

I watched an interview of him saying he not only wants to be paid as the highest running back in the league, but one of the highest paid offensive players and even said a SB of 30-40 million is what he wants.

**** all of that

yeah, that's insane. healthy raise, sure. but that's too damned far.

Yeah, but is that what he's actually demanding, or is that his way of forcing Tennessee to step up the offer? You always have to start negotiating at a high point.

Come on dude. $30-$40 Million signing bonus right before they are about to have a lock out?

Like I said, nobody is getting PAID this year due to the CBA issues and if the players cant figure that out.......

Why would you give a huge contract to a guy when you have no idea what the salary cap structure if there is one, or how the CBA is going to be structured one year later?