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OT: Le'Veon Bell

ConnHuskBask said:
Per PFT (not Commenter) Team is on the way to Cleveland without Bell.

I guess that means he doesn't get the Week 1 paycheck.
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Based on the weather there... probably won't regret it.
 
uconnphil2016 said:
Seriously. If I'm the Steelers I trade him tomorrow for a draft pick and rid myself of the locker room issues
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Conner, Samuels and they'll need to sign another back (I don't want to retread Toussaint yet again)
 
uconnphil2016 said:
If I'm the Steelers I trade him tomorrow for a draft pick and rid myself of the locker room issues
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Not sure what they'd get for him with less than a season to go, but I agree.
I just can't side with the player. I don't care about his pay relative to his peers, his impact on the team (touches) or actual worth. It's on the Steelers front office to do the contract negotiating and if the franchise tag is all they can do and it's within the rules, so be it. Obviously they will not be able to sign him once he's a FA and that's on them. Including this season he's made $29M in his career. If it ended today, he and generations after him should be set. So sign the damn franchise tag offer and get the NFLPA to renegotiate the contract they have.
 
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Waquoit said:
The fact is you have to holdout or threaten to holdout to get paid in the NFL. It's a crappy system but that's the system. Those critical of the players are tools of ownership, imo.
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I don't criticize his holding out, but communicate it ahead of time so the team has enough time to plan. So say, unless I get this, I'm not coming until week 11. Otherwise you are hurting other players and coaches, both on the field and subsequently in their own value on the market (or could even cost them their job). Don't take everyone down with you.
 
whaler11 said:
Based on the weather there... probably won't regret it.
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We were talking about buying extra vacation time yesterday. Now THIS is committment to extra vacation time. Technically, it's $855k for a few days off!
 
So if Conner has a few more performances like the one yesterday that's got to incite Bell to return? Right?
 
ConnHuskBask said:
So if Conner has a few more performances like the one yesterday that's got to incite Bell to return? Right?
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You've got to wonder. Pittsburgh might look to split carries in order to ease Conner into being their RB. But, if I'm Pitt, why not just trade Bell? your replacement is fine and Bell ain't coming back long term. If he comes back this year, are you that much better? Does the locker room turmoil offset the talent? Why not get something in return for him while you can?
 
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uconnphil2016 said:
You've got to wonder. Pittsburgh might look to split carries in order to ease Conner into being their RB. But, if I'm Pitt, why not just trade Bell? your replacement is fine and Bell ain't coming back long term. If he comes back this year, are you that much better? Does the locker room turmoil offset the talent? Why not get something in return for him while you can?
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I think that he has to agree to sign the franchise tag, then they have to work out a trade, all while the receiving team negotiating a long term extension. I'm not sure how tampering violations could bring that into play.

I agree with you though. RBs are replaceable and there's no point in signing on for the end of their 20s.
 
Would Bell play if he was traded? He's upset at not having a long term contract and a large sum of guaranteed money. I doubt if he got traded today that he'd suit up for week 2 and risk getting hurt and missing out on his long term deal
 
uconnphil2016 said:
You've got to wonder. Pittsburgh might look to split carries in order to ease Conner into being their RB. But, if I'm Pitt, why not just trade Bell? your replacement is fine and Bell ain't coming back long term. If he comes back this year, are you that much better? Does the locker room turmoil offset the talent? Why not get something in return for him while you can?
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What can you really get for him atm? A 5th or 6th rnder? A team that trades for him is either looking for a short term rental...or knows they are going to have to blow the bank (read 'cap') for an tread worn, injury prone RB.
 
tiger8mush said:
Would Bell play if he was traded? He's upset at not having a long term contract and a large sum of guaranteed money. I doubt if he got traded today that he'd suit up for week 2 and risk getting hurt and missing out on his long term deal
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He might. I think he was stupid not to sign a long term deal as they reportedly offered. RBs aren't going to make as much as he seems to think he is worth. That being said, Pittsburgh uses him more than any other team uses a single RB in the modern era. His issue, in part, is that he is more likely to get hurt playing for the Steelers because he will have so many touches. The counterpoint is that their run blocking OL is superb, which is why Connor was effective. He had almost 100 yards before contact.

Smart move for Bell would be to report and then run like Franco Harris. Go out of bounds, go down easy when you aren't trying to get critical first down yardage, and ask for more breaks. He will make enough by reporting to be set for life, whatever his next deal. And he must have a good injury insurance policy.
 
Looks like Bell was dropped off the depth chart today, though I think that's probably more symbolic than them knowing when he'll return.

Can't wait for this weeks slew of "sources guess" when he'll return being presented as actual journalism.
 
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ConnHuskBask said:
Looks like Bell was dropped off the depth chart today, though I think that's probably more symbolic than them knowing when he'll return.

Can't wait for this weeks slew of "sources guess" when he'll return being presented as actual journalism.
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You'll know the Steelers have really moved on when they start spending the cap money they have tied up waiting for Bell.
 
whaler11 said:
Had to take Conner with him. That’s some Reese level stuff from you ;)
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I should have known better than to take a running back #2 overall in the draft!

Fishy said:
You'll know the Steelers have really moved on when they start spending the cap money they have tied up waiting for Bell.
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Who is even available at this point for them to spend it on during the season?
 
nycscooby said:
Sorry man, all I know is that I breathed a huge sigh of relief when the guy just ahead of me in Round 1 took him with the 6th pick. If he had fallen to me, I probably would have pulled the trigger.
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No doubt. I took him pick 8 in another league, at least in that one I wasn't an idiot and grabber Conner!
 
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He is coming back during the bye week to get vacation pay and then play rest of season. Confirmed by CBS sports.
 
The Steelers are the new Browns. They're awful. Adding Bell is putting lipstick on a pig.
 
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