I can agree with that. What about a bad offense?
Hold on here, doesn't guaranteed money change how it hits the cap? It IS about the cap because the money would hit this year more than if they pushed it out to other years as salary. I am not sure how you think it isn't about the cap. It is all about the cap. How do they give him what he wants and still fit in this years number which is tight.
Steelers don't have the $$$$$ to pay Watt $50 to $60 mill guaranteed. Then turn around and pay Fitz large guaranteed money. Then Bush as you feel the Steelers will do. The Steelers wouldn't pay Bell what he wanted which was peanuts compared to what Watt will want but you see them laying large guarantees for 3 deals in the next three years. Um...OK.
If the Steelers aren't going to change their ways you can forgot about them ever seriously competing again because they won't be able to keep any of their start players. They have to adapt.
This....Steelers simply don't have the $$$$$. The reason Raiders traded Mack was this exact thing.
Man you are always so positive about things. The Steelers have the cap room to pay them AFTER this year. They have always spent the max or damn close to it. I am not sure what the hell you are going on about.
Positive or negative has nothing to do with it. Money does. The Steelers pockets are not deep like the Jerry Jones of the world.
If they can’t adjust their ways they also will never be able to keep a franchise QB (if they draft one) into a second contract.
What is your point? If the contract fits within the Salary Cap they will pa it if it doesn't they can't no matter how deep their pockets are? I really don't get your point here. This isn't baseball and the Rooneys will spend to the cap, they can't spend more.
They don't have the capital in their bank account to put $50 to $80 million in an escrow for the guarantees. Or if they have it they don't want to pay that out.
Purely speculation on your part. Again I seriously doubt that is the reason for any of this. unless you have something to back that up. I call BS.
Is it speculation? Or am I simply going off of the history how the Steelers have run their franchise? Yep. Steelers in the past have handed large contracts but the guarantees were always very franchise friendly. So what is your reason the new Watt deal isn't finished?
Because they are trying to figure out how to make it fit with this years cap if they do guarantees like I said. Simple. If this were next year it would be done already as the cap wouldn't be an issue. If they give him large upfront money right now a portion of it has to hit this year. They may want to give him that money now but the current cap situation makes it hard to do and that makes it a salary cap issue plain and simple. They are having to try and work out a way to make him happy and keep cap compliant for this year.
So you are just speculating like me. Ok.
No, it is a fact that they have to fit this in under the cap this year. It is a fact that this years cap is tight and next years is not. It is a fact that guaranteed money has to partially hit this years cap in normal situations. So factually whatever they do has to work with this years cap. Correct? The only speculation is if it is the guaranteed money that is the hold up. We both speculate it is, the only difference is why. I am speculating it is the above facts not that the Rooneys are somehow cheap.
No...you are speculating the reason why it isn't done. Just as I was.