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Are the Steelers going to change their drafting and free agency philosophy?

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Group A. Heyward, Watt, Shazier, DeCastro, and Conner


Or


Group B. Brown, Bell, Burns, Bryant or Dupree.




Group A = high character, high effort players


Group B = Arguably better athletes; however there are some dumb players, selfish players, and players with off the field issues.




I think the Steelers need to change their drafting and free agency philosophy a bit. If a player has bad character, or tests out dumb as rocks, please don't draft him early or give him a large second contract. It's just not worth it.
 
Not sure if AB fit in group B when he was coming into the league but the last few years, he certainly moved into that group.
 
the more I think about the Bell deal, the more I understand his position. he was not under contract. He did what was best for him, knowing as a RB he will probs only get 1 major pay day. Brown, I am still at a loss as how he can do what he did and not have to give back money.
 
When Tomlin let the whole "Young Money" bit happen, I was surprised that AB acted a team player for a good number of years.
His exit was just a well executed marketing ploy, by/for him, to get a better deal.

Ike Taylor has been quiet on all the recent shenanigans.

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BLITZ said:
the more I think about the Bell deal, the more I understand his position. he was not under contract. He did what was best for him, knowing as a RB he will probs only get 1 major pay day. Brown, I am still at a loss as how he can do what he did and not have to give back money.
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The Steelers should have kept him and waited for a better trade, or forced him to sit out.

They were made the laughing stock of the league.
 
Skott said:
The Steelers should have kept him and waited for a better trade, or forced him to sit out.

They were made the laughing stock of the league.
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I don't know, if you have a cancer, you want to get rid of it no matter what the cost.
 
BLITZ said:
the more I think about the Bell deal, the more I understand his position. he was not under contract. He did what was best for him, knowing as a RB he will probs only get 1 major pay day. Brown, I am still at a loss as how he can do what he did and not have to give back money.
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If he would have signed the long term deal we offered the first time he could have potentially have been able to have signed another big deal.
 
Skott said:
The Steelers should have kept him and waited for a better trade, or forced him to sit out.

They were made the laughing stock of the league.
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It becomes even a bigger laugher as AB proved he could go to extremes to get his way. Imagine the extreme he would go through to counter the sitting scenerio. ULTIMATELY the Steelers did the right thing by getting rid of him.





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Don't believe Burns and Dupree are low character guys, they just have football limitations.

Steelers offered Bell a more than fair contract, he misread the market.

When you get 9 years and the production AB provided from a 6th round pick, you keep drafting like that.
 
It seems they have already changed philosophy on signing free agents. I'm guessing they see the window closing on Ben and need to win now. Always, always draft BPA unless the difference between a need player is minimal.
 
21STEELERS21 said:
Don't believe Burns and Dupree are low character guys, they just have football limitations.
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Agreed, and I think Coach's categorization lumped together the dumbasses with the underachievers.

21STEELERS21 said:
Steelers offered Bell a more than fair contract, he misread the market.
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No doubt. The credible information on the Steelers offer to Bell was 5 years, $70 million, basically $33 million guaranteed the first two years, including the bonus. He signed for well less than that with the Jests.
 
Steeltime said:
Agreed, and I think Coach's categorization lumped together the dumbasses with the underachievers.



No doubt. The credible information on the Steelers offer to Bell was 5 years, $70 million, basically $33 million guaranteed the first two years, including the bonus. He signed for well less than that with the Jests.
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We do not need Bell. Conner + Samuels are better than Bell.

Brown will be much tougher to replace. The bright side is we get back a ton of cap space to spend elsewhere in 2020 an 2021.
 
Nothing has changed with the people who run our draft or free agency strategy. Not a sharp bunch.
 
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