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Josh Norman a UFA

Eh 16 million though. Not interested anymore. If I wake up to him signing at a discount for the Black & Gold--strippers and beer on the house. This guy would upgrade our defense
 
I'd love to have him, but I can't see us committing that much money to one guy and disrupting the pay scale of our entire team. Extending Timmons can easily open up 5million in cap space. If Norman wants to be a steeler and will take 5/65(or 6/78), we can make that work under the cap this year but it would handicap us going forward and would mean that we'd probably end up not extending Bell or Tuitt(when eligible).
 
Lol. Why even post asking about this? Think we'll bring him in? Yeah. The Steelers are bringing Josh Norman in. Gtfoh
 
skialta said:
Lol. Why even post asking about this? Think we'll bring him in? Yeah. The Steelers are bringing Josh Norman in. Gtfoh
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it wasn't to sign him, they wanted to show the other corners on the roster what a real corner looks like

no stone goes unturned
 
Understood. They're going to display him as the prototype.I can dig it
 
I'd love to sign him but he's 28, had one phenomenal season, and his asking price is laughable. The Panthers dropped the tag for a reason. He must not be budging from his asking price and that means he's going to whoever gives him the most. Does that sound like the Steelers?
 
skialta said:
Lol. Why even post asking about this? Think we'll bring him in? Yeah. The Steelers are bringing Josh Norman in. Gtfoh
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You're killing the DREAM, man! You're killing the dream!


ha ha, jags are in it - just like I perdicted


49ers 'early front-runner' for Norman

The 49ers have been one of the main teams linked to Norman in his first seven hours of free agency. According to Robinson, the Jaguars also "have interest."

Jacksonville and San Francisco are currently Nos. 1 and 2 in cap space, with each having over $50 million available under the cap. It'll come in handy if this becomes a bidding war, which it very likely will. Per ESPN 49ers reporter Paul Gutierrez, Norman is "intrigued" by the idea of playing in California.

http://www.rotoworld.com/player/nfl/7593/josh-norman
 
Steelerfan81 said:
http://m.bleacherreport.com/article...eferral&utm_campaign=tsandroid?is_shared=true

Apparently we have expressed interest lol
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Spike said:
Me too!

We got us a bidding war!



SF, TB, PIT, MIA pursuing Josh Norman

The Charlotte Observer reports "8-9 teams" have contacted free agent Josh Norman since the Panthers rescinded his franchise tag, including the 49ers, Buccaneers, Steelers, and Dolphins.

That was four hours ago. While some folks trying to force contrarians have argued Norman simply "isn't that good," or might have been let go for schematic reasons, at least 25 percent of the NFL disagrees and believes Norman would help their team.

Playing a man-coverage-oriented style of Cover 3 in Carolina last year, Norman permitted a league-low 54.0 QB rating on passes thrown into his coverage, also forcing seven turnovers with two pick-sixes. Unsurprisingly, Norman is already in high demand around the league

http://www.rotoworld.com/player/nfl/7593/josh-norman
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Spike said:
You're killing the DREAM, man! You're killing the dream!


ha ha, jags are in it - just like I perdicted


49ers 'early front-runner' for Norman

The 49ers have been one of the main teams linked to Norman in his first seven hours of free agency. According to Robinson, the Jaguars also "have interest."

Jacksonville and San Francisco are currently Nos. 1 and 2 in cap space, with each having over $50 million available under the cap. It'll come in handy if this becomes a bidding war, which it very likely will. Per ESPN 49ers reporter Paul Gutierrez, Norman is "intrigued" by the idea of playing in California.

http://www.rotoworld.com/player/nfl/7593/josh-norman
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Norman will get "more for his money" in Jacksonville; but, at least we called him.

---on to the draft now...
 
Why would they just basically release him? Couldn't they trade him? (Not sure about franchised players). Something fishy about this.
 
I thought about that also. I am thinking they didn't feel they could get much for him with what he was demanding so by releasing him they will likely end up with a 3rd round comp pick. Maybe they thought that was good enough and by releasing him when his agent was playing hard ball it send a message to the team that no ONE player is bigger than the team as a whole.
 
His agent said that even though the negotiations were stalled they hadn't sit in a while to retake discussions so it hit them by surprise.
Truth is his agent screwed up by not convincing him to sign the tag, now teams can "lowball" him starting conversations well under the tag price
 
I guess he couldn't be traded without signing the tag and reaching an agreement with the new team.

If they can finagle the room to bring him in, I'd do it cause it's a huge upgrade to our secondary and would allow us to possibly punt our first rounder for a pick this year and a first next year or to trade up a bunch(or down) for a player we like.
 
Carolina offered 11 per year and he said no. I doubt he ends up getting more then 14 a year. He may only get a one year deal before its all said and done. Who knows but let's not forget this guy has only been solid for one year and he came from a pretty amazing defense. The thought of bringing him in is great but I'd rather have a first round draft pick and money to sign Bell , DD, and AB
 
Wasn't he set to be a UFA before being tagged? In that case, if you remove the tag you are a UFA.

Someone needing a CB will sign him and that team won't be picking a 1st round CB, so it sort of helps us.
 
Maybe they are so high on Boykin that they didn't need Norman. :)

Watch Boykin have a top 5 CB season this year and make Tomlin and the FO look like stooges again.
 
FordFairLane said:
Maybe they are so high on Boykin that they didn't need Norman. :)

Watch Boykin have a top 5 CB season this year and make Tomlin and the FO look like stooges again.
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I actually expect that to happen, as well as it likely Norman ends up somewhere where he no longer appears as a top shelf, lock DOWN CB. He will likely appear less skilled when on a D without all the talent that Car. had.

I am not saying he will look like chopped liver, but he won't seem as dominating as he did while on Car. team.
 
POP said:
I actually expect that to happen, as well as it likely Norman ends up somewhere where he no longer appears as a top shelf, lock DOWN CB. He will likely appear less skilled when on a D without all the talent that Car. had.

I am not saying he will look like chopped liver, but he won't seem as dominating as he did while on Car. team.
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Just like the other seattle CB last offseason
 
According to a tweet from Jason La Caforna the Steelers will not pursue Norman. Ends that.
 
We don't even have the cash to sign our draft picks this summer, where the hell would we find $11M or so just layin' around to sign this guy...or any decent FA for that matter ?

Cap Space (w/All) $-3,393,063
Cap Space (w/Top 51 & Projected Draft Pool) $-1,544,175
Cap Space (w/Top 51) $3,472,132

http://r.search.yahoo.com/_ylt=A0LE...ers/cap//RK=0/RS=yeqTUAVHRLYyvUhgV20KkLJu2xM-

In all the reports I can find, we are tight up against it if ya count all the variables.

Free agents..free agents, we can't afford no stinkin' free agents. hell, we'll be lucky to hang on to what we got right now.

Now, tracking the salary cap in real time is always tough because we don’t know when other charges will hit. In my table below, I have gone ahead and projected the cap rollover from 2015, future workout bonuses and a veteran cap credit payback payment. Based on a now expected $154 million salary cap number for 2016, that would put the Steelers $5,263,017 under the cap.

Now, the Steelers will certainly have future charges such as draft picks (minus displacement), two final roster spots and a 10-man practice squad, so if you want to plan for that, you could say those three line-items will eat up roughly $4.7 million of cap space. Additionally, the team likes to enter a season with around $3 million in reserve cap space and if you factor that in along with the additional line-items, I suppose you could say that the Steelers are roughly $2.5 million over the cap. I’m guessing that’s how Bouchette’s source came up with his number.
http://r.search.yahoo.com/_ylt=A0LE...suggest//RK=0/RS=T2gXmpPBvOQLhnFL0Hr9DUr15Aw-
 
Easy ways to create more than enough space to sign Norman hypothetically-

Convert Mitchell's salary to a signing bonus. Creates approx. 2.8m in space
Restructure Pouncey's base salary, this should create somewhere around 2.1million
Convert 8million of Ben's salary into a signing bonus. Creates 6million dollars
Convert 3million of Marcus Gilbert's salary into a bonus, this creates 2.25million
Redo Timmons' contract. Likely creates between 4 and 6 million dollars in space.


They don't even have to do any of these things if they don't want to, but assuming they were to reach a deal with Norman there are easily enough mechanisms in place for us to do so. And even if he gets 5/70, his first year hit can be something as low as 5-6 million dollars.
 
After seeing all the news that has come out and the firing of his agent upon his release, it just looks as if the guy is a bad egg and Carolina cut ties to just get him out of the building for good. We don't need any, or anymore, flawed characters in the locker room. Let him get his money elsewhere
 
I wouldn't sign the guy even if they had the money.

Gotta pay AB at some point. AB has beaten pretty much all the top CBs in the league consistently, the ones that don't hold and grab him all the time. You pay Josh Norman $16 mill/per, if I'm AB I say, since I beat these guys, "I'll take $17 mill/per." Most especially if the team AB is on is willing to pay that to an outside guy.
 
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