Chris Johnson is not happy at all with his former employer.
NFL free agency started on March 11. The Titans released Chris Johnson April 4. He signed with the Jets almost two weeks later. In Johnson’s eyes, the Titans were petty and released him late on purpose.
“I think they was just being nasty to be honest,” Johnson told Alex Marvez and Keith Bulluck of SiriusXM NFL Radio on Tuesday night. “I love Tennessee, I love my fans and all that, but I think at the end of the day [the Titans] did me wrong. And I don’t know if it was, ‘Oh, we’re gonna get revenge back on you for holding out’ when I held out the whole training camp [in 2011] or whatever.
I feel like they already knew they were going in a different direction, and it just baffles me that you release me after free agency is over and you wait until a couple days [before] it’s time to show up for offseason workouts to let me go.”
Teams cut players whenever they feel like it, and most importantly, when it benefits them.