Chris Simms seems to think AB and his agent were conspiring with Raiders

[Big Ben Rules]

In the future CBA the owners should take a hard line that at the very least 50% of any signing bonus money a player is given goes into a retirement account FOR THAT PLAYER which cannot be touched until the player has retired from football. Enough with their bullshit wasting of money and then crawling off to another team to cash in again.

Furthermore, the CBA should have a clause for JUST this kind of situation. The Raiders should have had to pay a prorated amount of Brown's signing bonus from the Steelers as well as their 30 million in guaranteed money. That way they are truly buying out the contract. This would have made it MUCH LESS attractive for the Raiders to sign Brown before his contract was up.

Plus the ****** comes off your Salary Cap.

 

[wig]

That's what I'm saying BBRules. By buying out the prorated remainder of the traded player's signing bonus the team losing the player in the trade can recoup that money into their immediate cap.

It doesn't hurt the players at all except that it makes them less desirable to trade for early in their contracts as the Raiders did with Brown.

 

[Blitzburgh]

Steelers should have never publicly addressed an interest in trading AB. ARII blew that when he came out publically and said he thought it might be best to trade him.
If they kept quiet, holding the position they weren't trading him, they could have worked behind the scenes, got the deal they wanted and sprung it on the new league
year. By going public they gave AB the opportunity to start expressing his demands if traded. None of Steelers management should ever play poker.

Tomlin's awesome for playing poker with. Just like football he really has no idea what the rules are and he blinks real fast three times whenever he's trying to bluff.

 

[black and gold apex]

Nothing would be a surprise from the NFL anymore. All of Browns actions this year which we all observed each week from Brown, something was up. Throw in all the finger pointing and the lame one play that caused Brown for the back breaker, to look like a little kid crying for milk.

 

[SteelerFan448]

Brown doesn't just go off the deep end at the end of the season. He has been off for over a year now and something built up to get to this point and listening to this interview, it seems like the combination of James Harrison and Le'Veon Bell built the foundation for his actions.