I'm done rooting for this embarrassing franchise. Since mediocrity is the best we could possibly hope for (and Mike Brown's wet dream), I'd just as soon see them go 0-16. Not that anything would change. Does everyone (that is, everyone except the Bengals "braintrust) realize that had we simply traded Chad Johnson and had someone from Lot D engineer the draft, fans would be dancing in the street because we'd have ended the day with

#7 from the Patriots - Sedrick Ellis. Of course only Mike Brown didn't see the Saints move coming. For our 3rd-rounder we could have traded with the Pats and landed the DT the Bungles so badly need. Still, at least Rivers was the logical pick if you were hell bent on staying at #9.

#21 from the Redskins - Rashard Mendenhall. Wow, a Three-fer! We unload a wrong side of 30, alligator-armed malcontent, we pick up a bell-cow running back, AND we deprive a division rival of getting him.

#46- Limas Sweed anyone? Trevor Laws? Listen, Jerome Simpson may turn out to be the next Jerry Rice, but if he does then EVERY single scouting service was wrong and the Bengals were right... Sorry, just spit up my drink on the computer at that one.

who we could have had in round 4, will have a wonderful mentor in Chad Johnson (is there a sarcasm key?).  

So...we're holding onto a locker room cancer when we could've just had Mendenhall or a DT at #21 with the Redskins pick. Nicely done Bungles, nicely done. Nobody wants to see that crybaby rewarded, but why penalize Carson and the rest of the team (as well as the fans) in order to simply make a point?

If it's a good deal, then you get it done.  The reality is that this is not a playoff team even with Chad Johnson so you use the draft to rebuild (although it'd be nice if we actually had scouts).  I'd bet my house that if you went to Carson Palmer and Willie and told them you could get rid of this malcontent if we pushed some of their salaries into later years they'd drive Chad to Washington themselves.  I'd love to see Chad sit and accrue fines, but there's no way he doesn't show up and disrupt chemistry the minute he starts missing game checks.