Palmer on Chad: I've moved on

Bengals quarterback Carson Palmer this morning down-played the reaction Chad Johnson had to comments Palmer made last week.

Palmer had said he had talked to Johnson, who has demanded to be traded, and Palmer said Johnson had told him he would be "there when he had to be."

Johnson, though ESPN.com, fired back to Palmer and essentially told Palmer to mind his own business.

"I take it with a grain of salt," Palmer said this morning when asked about Johnson's reaction. "I've moved on."

"No," Palmer said when asked if he had talked to Johnson in the past week.

"I've always tried to be a (forgiving-and-forgetting) guy. I hope he's here. He's a good player," Palmer said. "It's just part of the gsame. It's such a business. You have to be prepared to move on."