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The KC Stars Jason Whitlock thinks LJ is the best thing to happen to Pioli and Haley.

http://www.kansascity.com/sports/chi...y/1531827.html

There’s no way I release Larry Johnson. No way.
He’s Scott Pioli’s and Todd Haley’s most valuable player.
Within hours of the Chiefs turning in a Three Stoogeslike performance that called into question Haley’s competency to lead an NFL team and Pioli’s sanity as it relates to Matt Cassel, Larry Johnson created a distraction that took the spotlight off KC’s rookie coach and GM.
Hell, I’d give Johnson a bonus, a laptop to carry to practice and the green light to tweet 24/7.
Short of Michael Jackson returning from the grave and announcing he’d sing the national anthem at the Chiefs’ next home game, LJ’s tweet smack talk and locker-room F-bomb are the best thing that could happen to Pioli and Haley this week.

I say hold on to Johnson until the end of the season, use him for what he has left to offer. He’s an excuse, a major distraction and a glaring example of Carl Peterson’s ineptitude.

Now that we’re seven games into this season, Haley and Pioli both need Larry hanging around as a reminder to fans and Clark Hunt that Peterson created this 2009 mess. Larry is a massive billboard who screams: “King Carl Did This.”
I’d keep Larry at starting tailback and make him run the ball 20 times a game. Can you think of a worse punishment? You can’t trade him. You might as well let opposing linebackers light him up 20 times a week.
For the remaining home games, I’d run Jared Allen’s Minnesota Vikings highlights on the Jumbotron, too.
Carl Peterson had a choice between Larry Johnson and Jared Allen. Peterson decided Allen’s drinking was a bigger risk than Johnson’s mood swings.
If the Chiefs release LJ, the media are going to go back to focusing on Haley and Pioli. We’re going to go back to the 22-guys-off-the-street countdown. Will Haley make it to three victories? Did Pioli’s media tactics and insider trading with his New England homeboys and father-in-law contribute to a winning environment?