It all began when the Panthers drafted Jarrett (which is a younger Keyshawn), then the Panthers said goodbye to Johnson, he floated around looking for a deal that he in no way was good enough for (which was like 8 mil of 1 year) of course no one gave him that kind of cash so he took a job with ESPN. So most thoughts were "another Irvin to have to listen too, someone who doesn't know what the hell he is talking about" which still remains to be seen but we do know he has a big mouth and has no problem with saying what he thinks, which may keep his job for him or he may be canned faster then Spam. Not that he is that interesting or anything but I read a article with a bunch of his quotes so far and some of that stuff is pretty funny, allow me to share with you.....
1)During ESPN's NFL draft coverage in April, Johnson made a passing comment about Mitchell's dubious pro career. Johnson suggested that the former Philadelphia Eagles wideout wouldn't have been seen as such a failure in the NFL if he had been a middle-round pick and not saddled with the lofty expectations of being a first-rounder. It was a comment that, in truth, barely moved the needle in two days of ESPN's grinding draft coverage...."He was pissed," Johnson said of the first time he saw Mitchell after the making the comment.
"It shocked me. I was floored. Floored, because if it was me, my feelings wouldn't have been hurt. If a guy is saying I'm an ass because I cussed out Jon Gruden, they're saying it because I cussed him out. I'm not going to try to say 'That's not what happened.' It was on national TV. I did cuss him out …"
"With Freddie, if my opinion is that you were a bust as a No. 1 pick, you were a bust. Period. Guys have had more catches in three games than you had in your whole career. I mean, you're a bum. What I was trying to say is if you were taken in the third, fourth or fifth round and you caught those 30 balls, you'd still be playing to this day."
2)"I'm not going to blow a guy up and make him a star, and I'm not going to bury a guy," said Johnson, the No. 1 overall pick in 1996. "I'm just not into that. I'm not going spend every week talking about Terrell Owens. (Bleep) him. He's not that important to me, for me to go in every week and talk about him. Unless he goes and does something crazy, then everyone is talking about him and you have no choice. But I'm not going to continue to talk about him and make him into something bigger than what he really is. He's not that big. He's a (bleeping) receiver, you know?"
3)"ESPN is bigger than any of the teams that were after me," Johnson said. "There was the opportunity to jump into something now and get out of the game healthy. In my career, I've done everything. I can't find one thing where I say to myself, dang, I wish I had done that – other than win more championships. But, hell, guys go 20 years and don't win any – like poor Jackie Slater."
"I wasn't going to be one of those guys who stayed too long. Like Brett Favre. What the hell is he still playing for? He should have quit three years ago"
4)"I'm going to hit a valid point when I say something," he said. "I'm not just going to throw some (stuff) against a wall."
"It's like when (fellow ESPN analyst) Michael Wilbon was trying to tell me that Tom Brady was an icon. There's only four or five guys in the world that are icons. Muhammad Ali. Tiger Woods. Michael Jordan. Dale Earnhardt in NASCAR. Those guys are icons. Tom Brady is not an icon. No matter how you want to glorify his position – winning three championships, he looks good with the scruffy beard and he's dating Gisele. That's great. But he's not an icon."
"You can't always use those words. I was a good football player. I wasn't a great football player. Jerry Rice was great. There's a difference. Michael Irvin calls himself great. He was good on a great team with a lot of championships. But he wasn't as great as he makes himself out to be."
Oh man we might have some Keyshawn entertainment all year, more then he ever could give us on the football field.
