{"id":8779,"date":"2014-01-29T08:42:19","date_gmt":"2014-01-29T13:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=8779"},"modified":"2014-01-29T08:42:19","modified_gmt":"2014-01-29T13:42:19","slug":"terrell-davis-questions-the-desire-of-chris-johnson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2014\/01\/29\/terrell-davis-questions-the-desire-of-chris-johnson\/","title":{"rendered":"Terrell Davis questions the desire of Chris Johnson"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nThe Tennessee Titans will almost surely release running back Chris Johnson in the coming days.<\/p>\n

Johnson finished with 1,077 yards in 2013 with a 3.9 average and six touchdowns.Those numbers will not make it easy for the 28-year-old to find a contract nor will the comments by former NFL running back Terrell Davis.<\/p>\n

\u201cI believe he still has something in the tank,\u201d said Davis, via the Tennesseean<\/a>. \u201cTo me, it is more about his desire to want to do it. We\u2019ve seen his talent, and he can still do what he wants to do. If you question anything about him it is about whether he has the desire to be great, when things are ugly. Are you willing to bang your head against the wall if the wall is not breaking down? To me, he doesn\u2019t have that.<\/p>\n

Johnson’s 2014 salary for the Titans would be $8 million, a number the team figures to pass on. <\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I watch film, I don\u2019t see the effort in him. And I never, ever want to question somebody\u2019s effort. But \u2026 the tape, it doesn\u2019t lie. And I don\u2019t see the desire I saw when he was Chris Johnson, the no-big-contract Chris Johnson. I see times when maybe he is not getting as many yards as he could. He could break a few more tackles, and maybe hit the hole a little harder at times.\u201d said Davis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Tennessee Titans will almost surely release running back Chris Johnson in the coming days. Johnson finished with 1,077 yards in 2013 with a 3.9 average and six touchdowns.Those numbers will not make it easy for the 28-year-old to find a contract nor will the comments by former NFL running back Terrell Davis. \u201cI believe […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8701,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[196,426,216,58],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-8779","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-chris-johnson","9":"tag-front","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-tennessee-titans"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8779"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}