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Antonio Brown deal a disaster for Steelers

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The Pittsburgh Steelers allowed Antonio Brown to abandon his team, talk his way out of town, sabotage his trade value and still end up with a new contract that makes him the NFL’s highest-paid wide receiver with $30 million guaranteed.

For their troubles, the Steelers got the equivalent of Martavis Bryant and Ryan Switzer from the Oakland Raiders in what will go down as not just a terrible trade but an NFL cautionary tale on how not to handle contract and trade negotiations with high-end talent.

That all the Steelers could manage was third- and fifth-round picks in return for a seven-time Pro Bowl and four-time All-Pro wide receiver who was good for a minimum of 100 receptions, 1,200 yards and eight touchdowns the past six seasons makes the deal look like a disaster.

Everyone from team president Art Rooney II to general manager Kevin Colbert to coach Mike Tomlin has to be embarrassed for how they were publicly played by Brown and his agent, Drew Rosenhaus, in a deal where the Steelers were supposed to hold all of the leverage.


https://triblive.com/sports/kevin-gorman-antonio-brown-deal-a-disaster-for-steelers/

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I applaud the local media for not sugar coating this complete embarrassment
 
100% agree. The Steelers organization was made to look like complete, incompetent fools.
 
John Steigerwald: Antonio Brown made a fool of the Steelers

He played the Steelers like a fiddle.

Or was it Art Rooney II who wanted Brown out of town at any cost?


Brown won.

According to some reports, the Buffalo Bills offered a swap of first-round picks — No. 9 overall for the Steelers’ 20th — plus more compensation, but Brown said no.

Brown said no?

That’s when the Steelers had to know they lost the battle, but they actually lost it Dec. 30, when they allowed Brown to show up on the sidelines during a game against the Bengals wearing a mink coat.

He should have been told not to show up, and he should have been told not to expect his game check. Maybe the NFLPA would have put up a fight and won, but the Steelers would have sent the first message.

The second message should have been sent to Brown and his agent, Drew Rosenhaus. They should have been told the Steelers would try to trade Brown, but under no circumstances will the team accept anything less than a first-rounder in return.

In discussions with the media, Colbert and Rooney should have made it clear they were holding all the cards. They should have gone out of their way to tell the other 31 NFL teams any trade discussion would have to start with at least a first-rounder.

The Steelers should have told Brown unless a team offered a No. 1, he should plan on reporting to minicamp and playing for the Steelers if he wanted to get paid.

Instead, the Steelers caved, and that rendered every current and future Steelers player’s contract meaningless. If a star player becomes unhappy and doesn’t like the idea of being tied to playing in Pittsburgh, all he needs to do is walk out on the team, dye his hair blue and make an idiot of himself on Twitter and Instagram. Brown showed them all how to become a quasi free agent.

The Steelers showed they were not willing to take the cards they were holding and walk away. That’s when they lost.

https://triblive.com/sports/john-steigerwald-antonio-brown-made-a-fool-of-the-steelers/

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The hits keep on coming
 
Okay, EVEN I HAVE MOVED ON...It's over
 
You would think the Steelers would've at least insisted Brown restructure his contract prior to the trade to remove his dead money cap hit but they couldn't even do that. At least that would've somewhat compensated for this horrible deal. Of course no deals can be final until 4:00 PM today so it's never too late.
 
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Steelers1356 said:
You would think the Steelers would've at least insisted Brown restructure his contract prior to the trade to remove his dead money cap hit but they couldn't even do that. At least that would've somewhat compensated for this horrible deal. Of course no deals can be final until 4:00 PM today so it's never too late.
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The dead money cap hit was for guaranteed money he was already paid, there was no way to restructure to remove that cap hit.
 
He could have been required to pay some back. Brown is really being paid 71 million for the next 3 years. 23.6 mil per season when you figure in the dead money.
The signing bonus is paid with the expectation that a player fulfills the terms of the contract. If the terms of the contract are not fulfilled, a prorated portion of the signing
bonus should be returned.
 
Ok, so they tell Brown we didn't get 1st round pick, you need to report to camp. So we give him his 2.7 million dollar bonus, we deal with 6 more months of **** talking by AB about the coach, the QB, the team, and everything else. He would not report to camp, that would be the big story and a constant distraction. The season starts, AB is fined blah, blah, blah and he's still acting like a ******* idiot on social media so there's that distraction all season because he would never show up to play. So we play this card just to prove a point?

We have a great trade in the making with Buffalo, and 4 other teams in the mix, and AB screws it up by saying he won't report unless he has a new deal, so that wipes every team out but Oakland. Yeah the return is not the greatest, but the distraction is the **** out of here.

Either way we were playing next season without AB.
 
Coryea said:
Ok, so they tell Brown we didn't get 1st round pick, you need to report to camp. So we give him his 2.7 million dollar bonus, we deal with 6 more months of **** talking by AB about the coach, the QB, the team, and everything else. He would not report to camp, that would be the big story and a constant distraction. The season starts, AB is fined blah, blah, blah and he's still acting like a ******* idiot on social media so there's that distraction all season because he would never show up to play. So we play this card just to prove a point?
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That we have adults running the organization and that NO player is bigger than the team. Oh, and self respect.

Do you think there is a player, team, writer, media outlet, or twit on twitter that respects the 'storied' Pittsburgh Steelers at this point? And forget the 'playing with chip on shoulder in 19' happy talk. I would much prefer 'release hell in December'. Better memes.
 
Long before the point where he squashed the trade, leaving the Bengal game at halftime, the Steelers should have suspended him without pay for conduct detrimental to the team. Tomlin is nothing but an inflamed labia, so we know he's not doing it. Maybe someone higher up? Paging ART....no, nothing? OK let's just get played like ******* by a diva pos WR. Yep that sounds good. What an embarrassment.

It is truly a sad day when a bunch of baseball money ballers can take a dumpster fire Browns team in just a couple short years and build what appears to be a loaded team while Art, Colbert and Tomlin turn a once proud and dominant franchise into an impending dumpster fire.
 
The takeaway...

Brown is only worth a 3rd and a 5th.

OBJ is worth a 1st and a 3rd. Antonio isn't even the best receiver in the conference. Indeed, he is apparently little better than Martavis Bryant.
 
wig said:
The takeaway...

Brown is only worth a 3rd and a 5th.

OBJ is worth a 1st and a 3rd. Antonio isn't even the best receiver in the conference. Indeed, he is apparently little better than Martavis Bryant.
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Is someone working on the 'Colbert Bunzup Kneelin' av?
 
Vincent said:
That we have adults running the organization and that NO player is bigger than the team. Oh, and self respect.

Do you think there is a player, team, writer, media outlet, or twit on twitter that respects the 'storied' Pittsburgh Steelers at this point? And forget the 'playing with chip on shoulder in 19' happy talk. I would much prefer 'release hell in December'. Better memes.
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I don't care what others think, they bashed us pretty good before we traded AB, hell most of them would've piled on more had we made AB stay.

I'd rather win, and getting rid of that piece of **** distraction gives us a better chance at winning.

AB is the **** up here and the Raiders by giving him a new contract, not the Steelers.
 
8-8 is a perfectly acceptable non-losing season for the apologists
 
ab's dumb *** played the steelers for *******. this is the worst offseason i can remember
 
The Steelers held ZERO CARDS, as PROVEN by AB.

You only hold power over players DEPENDANT on the paycheck. AB was not dependant on the money at this point, and able to roll the dice. Now he can go to the Raiders and be a model citizen and rake in the cash, not that I think he will.
 
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The Steelers could have easily denied the Raiders offer of a 3 and 5 for Brown. Trading period starts today, it doesn't end today.

The fact is, they didn't want to. Brown effectively sabotaged the deal with the Bills, they must have figured he'd do even more damage to an already slim market for Brown.
 
BAS said:
The Steelers could have easily denied the Raiders offer of a 3 and 5 for Brown. Trading period starts today, it doesn't end today.

The fact is, they didn't want to. Brown effectively sabotaged the deal with the Bills, they must have figured he'd do even more damage to an already slim market for Brown.
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The deal with the Bills was very good, and there were 4 other teams in the mix as well. They all backed out once AB started with the "I'm no showing unless I get a new deal" not sure how that's on the Steelers.

No matter what, AB was not playing for us next season.
 
eyes up
chest up
prayed up
paid up
 
skialta said:
other than having him under contract of course
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That means squat...they could not put him back in the locker room, PERIOD. They had to move him and everyone in the NFL knew they had to get rid of him. You want that cancer back in the locker room? Yeah, well the rest of the NFL knew the answer to that questions was NO.
 
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