Chiefs LB Derrick Johnson Will Sign His Tender "In The Coming Days'

I want him to succeed under Crennel’s guidance. He really could turn the page this year, after all we are the team to beat this year right? :)

He is without a doubt our most talented inside linebacker we have. Lets hope Crennel finally gets DJ to consistently preform at a high level.

Another team may be interested in DJ, and bringing him in for a meeting. Even though his tender is a 1st, both teams could come to an agreement of different compensation. Im for DJ staying, but something COULD be brewing…

Larry’s right: DJ has to sign the tender offer in order to be able to even negotiate with other teams. So he signs it, and it means that he can do one of three things:

1. Sit tight with this one-year RFA deal
2. Negotiate a long-term deal with KC (or hold out for one, but that’s probably highly unlikely)
3. Sign an offer from another team, at which point KC would have the option of either matching (resulting in a contract between KC and DJ that are identical to the terms of the one DJ signed with the other team) or declining to match (resulting in DJ going to the other team, and KC getting the first-round pick).

Oh, and KC could also work through a loophole that would allow the team to trade the signed RFA contract to another team for compensation other than the first-round pick, but that would almost certainly be contingent on the other team’s arriving at a long-term deal with DJ.

Anyway, the point is that DJ’s signing of the tender offer means that he can now negotiate with other teams, not that

I think that would be a fair trade for both teams.

I can some other team liking him a lot.

For that matter, I can see DJ wanting to stick and make a go of it in KC. Seems like he was more about wanting to get it right, and the right coaching, but, even more important, the right D-Line, and KC might just be the best place for him to play WILB.

Before we start reading too much into this from the Pioli side, though, this signing is DJ’s doing, isn’t it? Personally, I think it’d be cool if it were something as simple as DJ wanting to get his deal done without a whole lotta fuss, and maybe not unreasonable money. While I’m in a bigger hurry than most to get my guys $1 or $2 million a year, I’m also lookin’ for good players who want to play on a championship team more than they want every last nickel they can get.

I’ll tell ya. If I were a player, I’d KNOW that if I only CLEAR half a million for couple years, I’m set for life, financially, and ALL the rest is about quality of play, quality of life (which doesn’t mean 2 mansions with swimming pools), and hopes for a championship, and the more $2 million-a-year players the team has, the better it’ll be, top to bottom, so the team operates at a high level, nobody gets tired, and the whole thing doesn’t fall apart because one star player gets hurt.

after the denver game he talked about how he was peeved off at his lack of playing time during the year. dont think he wants to stay with haley. piolis working something out with a team. dont know who it would be though

Now i am at least comfortable with Demmorio and DJ. McClain wouldnt be bad to pair up with DJ though if berry and Okung are gone.

If he stays inconsistant. I think that RC wil lbve just what DJ needs in a defensive coordinator. If not, I’ll be happy to trade him next year for 3rd round pick or up.

If they do trade him I hope it is to the LIons (Gunther wants his guys) for their second pick. That would give us 3 picks out of the first 40. Oh Yeah.

unless they are trying to get traded. Usually they want to extend their offseason by waiting to sign the tender. Considering DJ wasn’t happy about his playing time last year, I fail to see how he’s suddenly all gung-ho about hitting OTAs. Maybe I’m wrong and this is DJ sending a message to Haley that he’s finally buying in and willing to do what it takes to be a starter again, but I seriously doubt it.

SB Nation here needs to change the profile they have on him. Unless he went through an immense amount of plastic surgery that I haven’t heard about, this looks nothing like him.