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So he just walked past $14M/year to get $13M/year?4 years 52 mil
He'll make a perfect Jete!
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If the Steelers were only willing to Guarantee $20MM, then they either wanted Bell to leave or they know something we don't know. I have no way to make a conclusive argument that either is the case, so I'm inclined to believe the $33MM number. This means that Bell would still have left ~$14MM on the table to wait to sign a deal for $35MM guaranteed.I'm not sure why @greggrosenthal is pushing this angle because it's a very superficial way of looking at it. The raw totals don't really mean anything. The guaranteed money is really all that matters.
How much he's going to make after 2 or 3 years in the Steelers deal is completely irrelevant if he tears his ACL or ruptures his Achillies in 2018. The Steelers would just cut him and he'd never see any of that money.
Nobody seems to have a clear answer on how much the Steelers offered him. There are multiple reports that have surfaced. I've seen some reports saying he was offered only ~$20M guaranteed, and I've other reports that the Steelers offered him ~$33M guaranteed.
I know people want to **** on Bell because he plays for the Jets now and we feel inclined to put a negative spin on it, but he did fine. He could've gambled on his health and made more, but it's clear that him and his agent cared most about setting a floor with guaranteed money.
I'm not sure why @greggrosenthal is pushing this angle because it's a very superficial way of looking at it. The raw totals don't really mean anything. The guaranteed money is really all that matters.
How much he's going to make after 2 or 3 years in the Steelers deal is completely irrelevant if he tears his ACL or ruptures his Achillies in 2018. The Steelers would just cut him and he'd never see any of that money.
Nobody seems to have a clear answer on how much the Steelers offered him. There are multiple reports that have surfaced. I've seen some reports saying he was offered only ~$20M guaranteed, and I've other reports that the Steelers offered him ~$33M guaranteed.
I know people want to **** on Bell because he plays for the Jets now and we feel inclined to put a negative spin on it, but he did fine. He could've gambled on his health and made more, but it's clear that him and his agent cared most about setting a floor with guaranteed money.
Last summer it was reported that he was offered around 5 years, $70M with an uncertain amount guaranteed (some said as much as $30M+); his agent publicly disputed this:If the Steelers were only willing to Guarantee $20MM, then they either wanted Bell to leave or they know something we don't know. I have no way to make a conclusive argument that either is the case, so I'm inclined to believe the $33MM number. This means that Bell would still have left ~$14MM on the table to wait to sign a deal for $35MM guaranteed.
And, yes, injury risk is always part of the equation. A season or career can end with a non-contact injury on a practice field in Training Camp. But, on that logic, any player with one year left on a Contract would sit out if he can't get the extension he wants. In some cases, that might be a rational decision...in others, such as Bell's, not so much.
In the end, there wasn't much of a market for Bell at the payday he wanted. In fact, it sure looks like the Jets were the only bidder at that level.
You don't have to be a Jets hater to look objectively at that franchise's track record with talent (Darnold is the only notable recent exception) to think that many Front Offices took a "Look, but don't touch" approach to this guy, starting with the Steelers, the organization that knew him best.
So I stick to my original position.
“No matter what that final number was and I am certainly not saying that what has been reported is accurate because it’s not, quite frankly — the most important element of it is the guarantee,” Bakari said. “You couple that with the traditional way in which Pittsburgh does it’s deals, which, at the end of the day, nothing’s guaranteed after the first year.”
Source: Steelers offered Le’Veon Bell $47 million over three yearsAnd as to the notion that only $10 million would have been fully guaranteed, at a time when the 2018 franchise tender for Bell is $14.54 million, the package included a $10 million roster bonus due not long after signing, making the practical guarantee $20 million. The Steelers would have avoided that payment only by cutting Bell within days after giving him $10 million to sign.
So Bell forfeited a $14.5 MM year salary in 2018 to get a $13 MM/year deal now. Sounds like my financial advisor.
I don’t think carving out provisions by position would really be in the players overall best interest. They need to work towards more/all guaranteed money (like MLB and NBA) not worry about a currently slightly devalued position group.The next CBA needs to address RBs particularly. You can't have teams drafting an elite talent like Bell, abuse the hell out of them on a cheap rookie deal (and perhaps a couple one year franchise deals), and then finally drop them to free agency in their late 20s when no team wants to give a big deal to an overworked RB.
The next CBA needs to address RBs particularly. You can't have teams drafting an elite talent like Bell, abuse the hell out of them on a cheap rookie deal (and perhaps a couple one year franchise deals), and then finally drop them to free agency in their late 20s when no team wants to give a big deal to an overworked RB.
The Jets got better but they aren't good enough to challenge the division, likely another year of irrelevance unless Darnold takes a huge step forward.
The Jete potentially finishing 7-9, 8-8, 9-7 does not bother me in the slightest.I think they got worse. They have Adam Gase now.
The Jete potentially finishing 7-9, 8-8, 9-7 does not bother me in the slightest.
I hope you're right but I think they'll be better and could make the leap from bad to mediocre.No need to worry about that. This team is 6-10 at very best.
I hope you're right but I think they'll be better and could make the leap from bad to mediocre.
I think Darnold sucks and will not improve much, which is where I differ from the general opinion. You can’t fix accuracy problems, and he isn’t good at reading defenses.