I had briefly mentioned that I thought Chad Johnson would make a good addition to the Buccaneers and that because he seemed unhappy in Cincinnati that he would be available for trade. Marvin Lewis disagrees with me. I don't know what makes his opinion so damn special.

"There will be no trade of Chad Johnson," Lewis said after he and [Mike] Zimmer both discussed the team's defense. "He felt he was unduly chastised, ridiculed, we defended him then. ... He is a professional football player. He is a Cincinnati Bengal for quite a while."

Of course, the Bengals have a long and distinguished history of doing exactly the wrong thing for their franchise, so you never know. But it sounds like the price to pry him away from the Bengals is going to be way too high. Next stop: Larry Fitzgerald.