{"id":1380,"date":"2012-12-05T12:53:20","date_gmt":"2012-12-05T17:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=1380"},"modified":"2012-12-05T12:55:38","modified_gmt":"2012-12-05T17:55:38","slug":"chad-johnson-says-arrest-and-obsession-with-self-cost-him-nfl-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2012\/12\/05\/chad-johnson-says-arrest-and-obsession-with-self-cost-him-nfl-job\/","title":{"rendered":"Chad Johnson says arrest and obsession with self cost him NFL job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With a number of NFL teams needing wide receivers it is surprising that Chad Johnson has not gotten so much as a phone call. Speaking on ESPN&#8217;s <em>First Take<\/em> the soon to be 35 year old took some responsibility for his fading football career.<\/p>\n<div>&#8220;I messed up. I messed up,&#8221; said Johnson. &#8220;Period. I lost everything. Football, my wife, the family I had, over something that didn&#8217;t really mean anything.&#8221; On Aug. 11 Johnson allegedly headbutted his then wife Evelyn Lozada during an argument. Three days later she filed for divorce. Their divorce was finalized in September.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Saying he was &#8220;humbled&#8221; but vowed to play again. He also made a plea for a potential job next season, seeming to understand that its too late in the season to sign with a team this year.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JD3lNg-pNcs?list=UUIIKPy27YWW5yhc0qvr4KnA&amp;hl=en_US\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/center><br \/>\nSo what do you think, Will Chad Johnson ever play in the NFL again?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With a number of NFL teams needing wide receivers it is surprising that Chad Johnson has not gotten so much as a phone call. Speaking on ESPN&#8217;s First Take the soon to be 35 year old took some responsibility for his fading football career. &#8220;I messed up. I messed up,&#8221; said Johnson. &#8220;Period. I lost [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[169],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-1380","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-chad-johnson"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1380"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}