Brown wants a new deal

[Troglodyte]

**** Colbert. That is the stuff of hypocrisy. The Steelers don't always honor contracts so shut their fat heads saying players should.

If a PLAYER under-performs on his contract, they will cut them and MAYBE agree to pay them less.

Is THAT "honoring" a contract? Tell me how that isn't dealing in double standards. If a player outperforms their deal (especially on the level that AB is) they should indeed offer a new deal before the old one is up.

Dude! You really don't understand this stuff.

Did Lamar Woodley give back a cent of his signing bonus?

 

[SteelerFan448]

Their methods seem to work to this point, I don't see it as a double standard.

I don't either. They generally sign the players they want and often times keep them throughout their contract. Of course there are some exceptions, but that is when a player they signed to a very nice contract just falls off a cliff. I found this article from a couple of years ago and if anyone has the time, check it out, particularly the last couple of paragraphs. They gave me a good laugh.

http://grantland.com/the-triangle/the-price-of-loyalty-in-pittsburgh/

And then, perhaps, the Steelers are stuck between stations with their most expensive player of all. Ben Roethlisberger is now technically seven years into his second contract, a deal that has already been restructured three times in three years and has one year left to run. Roethlisberger does not come cheap these days; with nowhere left for his money to go, the Steelers have $18.9 million of their cap dedicated to him this year, the second-largest cap hit of any quarterback in football.

Roethlisberger clearly isn’t the second-best passer in football. He’s obviously good enough for Pittsburgh to win, but his contract is sufficiently onerous enough to prevent the team from spending money elsewhere. At 32 and with a history of both taking big hits and getting injured, it’s not clear that signing him to an extension would be a wise move, even if there isn’t an obvious Roethlisberger replacement on the roster. A team with cap space would give Roethlisberger a deal similar to that of Jay Cutler or Alex Smith, one that guarantees him more money over the first two to three years of a longer contract, but the Steelers don’t have that luxury and won’t in 2015, given that they already have $130 million committed for just 38 players. I’m not sure what the right thing is to do with Roethlisberger. After looking at what they’ve done with their veteran extensions over the past few years, I have to say I’m not sure the Steelers know what to do, either.

The article had some good points, but the doom and gloom of "salary cap hell" that we always heard about never really came about. They've actually kept high-priced vets too long, but generally have fielded a competitive team. In fact, poor drafting led to the missed playoff appearances more than poor cap management.

But to bring this back to Brown, he is another one of the talented players that they've drafted worth keeping and they'll pay him what they believe he's worth...which is probably at or near the top of the wide receiver scale. It would just be right to do it this year and not wait another season.

 

[slashsteel]

I don't either. They generally sign the players they want and often times keep them throughout their contract. Of course there are some exceptions, but that is when a player they signed to a very nice contract just falls off a cliff. I found this article from a couple of years ago and if anyone has the time, check it out, particularly the last couple of paragraphs. They gave me a good laugh.

http://grantland.com/the-triangle/the-price-of-loyalty-in-pittsburgh/



The article had some good points, but the doom and gloom of "salary cap hell" that we always heard about never really came about. They've actually kept high-priced vets too long, but generally have fielded a competitive team. In fact, poor drafting led to the missed playoff appearances more than poor cap management.

But to bring this back to Brown, he is another one of the talented players that they've drafted worth keeping and they'll pay him what they believe he's worth...which is probably at or near the top of the wide receiver scale. It would just be right to do it this year and not wait another season.

Surprisingly it has been pretty quiet this year for contracts. I would prefer for them to work out something now, just to have it done with and out of the way.

Maybe they are still crunching the numbers figuring out the game plan moving forward.

 

[POP]

That is just business. They have a cap to manage. If someone becomes dead weight they have to cut him.

Just the same fading Steelers have earned more than their worth at times.

So the fact that a player can be overpaid and not all are asked to take a cut, evens the playing field.

Again I don't buy the double standards tag. We will have to agree to disagree.

Yes, I did want to add that sometimes they actually let under-performing players longer than they should. But I would like to change that too. I'd rather them take a "we will do what is appropriate" instead of making blanket statements about keeping "deals" even though they often don't actually keep their end up.

I don't either. They generally sign the players they want and often times keep them throughout their contract. Of course there are some exceptions, but that is when a player they signed to a very nice contract just falls off a cliff. I found this article from a couple of years ago and if anyone has the time, check it out, particularly the last couple of paragraphs. They gave me a good laugh.

http://grantland.com/the-triangle/the-price-of-loyalty-in-pittsburgh/



The article had some good points, but the doom and gloom of "salary cap hell" that we always heard about never really came about. They've actually kept high-priced vets too long, but generally have fielded a competitive team. In fact, poor drafting led to the missed playoff appearances more than poor cap management.

But to bring this back to Brown, he is another one of the talented players that they've drafted worth keeping and they'll pay him what they believe he's worth...which is probably at or near the top of the wide receiver scale. It would just be right to do it this year and not wait another season.

As I said above, I prefer they actually react a tad more quickly when players aren't living up to their pay. And, with that, also get the guys really outperforming their deals to more $, which would be rare, but not unheard of. AB deserves more $. Get it to him.

 

[SteelerFan448]

Surprisingly it has been pretty quiet this year for contracts. I would prefer for them to work out something now, just to have it done with and out of the way.

Maybe they are still crunching the numbers figuring out the game plan moving forward.

Not a whole lot of work to do this year as long as they can get Brown and DeCastro done. Maybe they are holding out until they learn more about Bell's situation before making any deals. I saw an update on Timmons, who previously said he wanted to finish his career here and would probably be willing to take a relatively low contract. However, after they held onto so many defenders to too long, they may just look to let him play out his contract and move on after this season. At least that's what I expect considering they could sign Vince Williams to a modest starter salary after the season.

Yes, I did want to add that sometimes they actually let under-performing players longer than they should. But I would like to change that too. I'd rather them take a "we will do what is appropriate" instead of making blanket statements about keeping "deals" even though they often don't actually keep their end up.



As I said above, I prefer they actually react a tad more quickly when players aren't living up to their pay. And, with that, also get the guys really outperforming their deals to more $, which would be rare, but not unheard of. AB deserves more $. Get it to him.

There were some examples in the article where the Steelers did react relatively quickly to bad contracts. Maybe not as quickly as you'd like, but still with several years left on the deals.