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AB Goes to Oakland

NFL players are wayyyyyyy over paid
 
Steelers1356 said:
Way to go Colbert, Oakland has 4 picks out of the first 35 selections, tons of cap space to make Brown happy and all you can do is get a 3rd and a useless 5th, not even a second? That's what you call fair value? You got played.
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Brown happy? Hahaha.. that dude will be pissed of 5 games in. He’ll also want another pay day in a year or so. Good riddance to that piece of garbage.


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I don’t like the compensation. With all that draft capital they stole him. I would have left him on the team. He had no leverage. Play or retire and he wasn’t retiring. They should have held out on this.
I’ve always said it was Cowher’s personnel moves that made this team as good as they were and not Colbert. Now you have these two clowns running things, Colbert and Tomlin and it’s going to get even worse.


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troymania said:
It's good to see you covering for the ******* again. You have been throwing the same **** out here for days in defense of this *******. The Steelers look like complete idiots as an organization. Especially Rooney. Restructures his contract to convert to a signing bonus to help the cap, gets screwed by Brown for the 11 million, gets a 3 and 5 rounded for a HOF. The Brown gets 30 million in guaranteed.money. Yeah, missing the Chief and Dan each passing day.
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I think you’re confused. The Raiders restructured Browns contract.
 
I f’n knew it. As soon as this drama started the Steelers would get practically nothing for AB. For that price they should have just shipped him to Buffalo for their punter.


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There is one silver lining and one only. No that is not true. There are possibly two. The Steelers will probably suck *** next year. The year after when big **** is off the books there HAS to be a ton of cap room. No Bell. No Brown and unfortunately no Shazier. And 2. The organization will hopefully wake up about Tomlin after 5-11.
 
Bell, Brown, and their agents have pulled Rooney and Colbert's pants down for all to see, our young players and other teams are taking note. No other team has been screwed like this by two top playersthat I can remember...

Martavis f'ing Bryant garnered a 3rd round pick, so a top 10 player in the league is only worth a 3 and a 5????

I can't remember a time in my adult life (44 years old) this organization has looked so weak and ruderless
 
SteelerSask said:
There is one silver lining and one only. No that is not true. There are possibly two. The Steelers will probably suck *** next year. The year after when big **** is off the books there HAS to be a ton of cap room. No Bell. No Brown and unfortunately no Shazier. And 2. The organization will hopefully wake up about Tomlin after 5-11.
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We’re losing one player and all of a sudden we’ll be terrible.. that’s a great analysis.


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SteelerSask said:
There is one silver lining and one only. No that is not true. There are possibly two. The Steelers will probably suck *** next year. The year after when big **** is off the books there HAS to be a ton of cap room. No Bell. No Brown and unfortunately no Shazier. And 2. The organization will hopefully wake up about Tomlin after 5-11.
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Tomlin has an excuse now. No AB or Bell. He's the coach until he chooses not to be. If the debacle that the team was last year isn't enough, nothing will be. I'm not talking strictly about their record.
 
The saddest thing is that the Steelers have lost a lot of credibility through all this.

Look at ******* Colbert. We will not settle for less than fair value, my ***.

What a joke.

They let Brown and Bell both screw them beyond belief.

They should have at least gotten a half season out of Bell in 2018, probably winning a couple more games and making the playoffs in the process, but the Steelers refused to use their leverage with the 2019 transition tag to compel him to sign the franchise tag and play after the deceitful POS misled the Steelers about his intentions of playing throughout the season.

Brown did what he could to sabotage the trade process, but the Steelers undermined themselves by basically admitting they cannot have Brown back, probably because they know the leadership and culture is not strong enough to handle him, which is an issue in itself.

If this is the new standard established by Tomlin, Colbert and Art II, it sucks. Plain and simple
 
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With a ton of draft picks I would be surprised to see us move up in the draft. Let’s see this play out. Also his salary comes off the books for next year.
 
I honestly think the Steelers just gave up when it came to trading AB. Getting only a 3rd & 5th round pick for one of the games best WR's is practically giving him away. They should have just said **** IT....here SF here's AB give us a 7th to get him out of the conference.
 
Chicoman said:
I honestly think the Steelers just gave up when it came to trading AB. Getting only a 3rd & 5th round pick for one of the games best WR's is practically giving him away. They should have just said **** IT....here SF here's AB give us a 7th to get him out of the conference.
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That would have truly been giving up. I know the compensation isn't what it should have been. But you don't make it worse in spite.


That high third can be a damn good player, but a 7th? no ******* way.I would do that.

You don't cut off your hands in spite of your face.
 
There are two sides to every story, and although AB acted like a spoiled toddler week to week, we have to also look at what has happened to this organization since Mr. Rooney passed. Many of us has been to camps and watched his interactions with the players, his love for his employees have been penned in many Steeler books and articles. I was at the Latrobe Night practice before his death, he was carted onto the field and helped to a chair. Players coming over to hug him and interact with him, all of them smiling and laughing.

I just don't think Art II, or Colbert have that same chemistry that made the lockeroom extended family. Thinking about this more and more, the passing of Mr. Rooney may have marked the death of the Steelers as we knew it.

The Steelers have managed to push away arguably the best running back and wide receiver in the NFL, and although Bell and Brown share a large part of the blame, you can't dismiss the incompetence of the front office either. The restructuring of AB's contract last year and the shopping and negotiation for AB's trade the last two weeks is emblematic of what this organization has become. It's embarrassing sad.
 
mdk2 said:
We’re losing one player and all of a sudden we’ll be terrible.. that’s a great analysis.


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So how exactly would you see it. The ****** defense was terrible last year. And they still have to fill needs at Corner. Right now that is worse than it was last year if that's possible. This team needs wr, corner, outside linebacker, inside linebacker, backup TE (and the starter is glass), reserve offensive lineman and a ****** kicker. They have like 13 million dollars to play with. C'mon. Did you watch the final game against the Bengals. How about that analysis.
 
slashsteel said:
AB showed the rest of the NFL the blueprint for getting their way.
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And Khalil Mack and Aaron Donald...

It's been coming out that compensation wasn't the problem, it was the contract and there were only a small handful of teams willing to give Brown that type of money. The market shrunk to a few teams and the Raiders were the ones willing to do the contract. As every cap/front office writer said, no one was going to give up a high draft pick AND a huge contract, it was one or the other and unfortunately for the Steelers, it hurt them with compensation. The Bills deal was reportedly swapping first-round picks and a couple of picks in the middle of the draft. I would've been thrilled with that, but the problem is Brown wasn't going to go there, that was pretty obvious with how everything went down. If the Steelers got bent over by Brown, so did the Bills and just about every team that dropped out because of the contract issue.
 
It's over, don't let it ruin your day, week, year, it's not worth it.

Lots of rain in the desert this year and I'm heading out to hike some mountain trails and look at everything that has bloomed.

Enjoy the day SN
 
SteelerFan448 said:
And Khalil Mack and Aaron Donald...

It's been coming out that compensation wasn't the problem, it was the contract and there were only a small handful of teams willing to give Brown that type of money. The market shrunk to a few teams and the Raiders were the ones willing to do the contract. As every cap/front office writer said, no one was going to give up a high draft pick AND a huge contract, it was one or the other and unfortunately for the Steelers, it hurt them with compensation. The Bills deal was reportedly swapping first-round picks and a couple of picks in the middle of the draft. I would've been thrilled with that, but the problem is Brown wasn't going to go there, that was pretty obvious with how everything went down. If the Steelers got bent over by Brown, so did the Bills and just about every team that dropped out because of the contract issue.
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Can't they file a grievance with the NFL that AB's behavior caused a lot lower compensation?
 
SteelerSask said:
So how exactly would you see it. The ****** defense was terrible last year. And they still have to fill needs at Corner. Right now that is worse than it was last year if that's possible. This team needs wr, corner, outside linebacker, inside linebacker, backup TE (and the starter is glass), reserve offensive lineman and a ****** kicker. They have like 13 million dollars to play with. C'mon. Did you watch the final game against the Bengals. How about that analysis.
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I think their 0-line is one area that is fine. They have three T's in place for competition for one spot.
 
I doubt anything changes, but my goodness would it be tremendous if something did.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Steelers source emphasizes AB trade is agreement only and “it’s never over till it’s over.”</p>— Gerry Dulac (@gerrydulac) <a href="https://twitter.com/gerrydulac/status/1104763101520506880?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 10, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
 
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