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Get em Beane! As am I ^. Oh great..

I'm struggling to make you understand why I don't like the NFL contracts or the franchise tag. I don't doubt the existence of it. This started with me saying NFL players are getting screwed and you questioning why. You're team owners I guess, I'm team players. That's all this boils down to and is tiresome otherwise to listen to y'all nitpick a point I'm bringing up with someone else. Sorry I brought up Jimmy Butler I guess. You can't listen to a comparison if it's not the exact same situation as to Bell's. A little difficult because it's literally never happened before. How about I leave it with it hasn't happened in other leagues lol. Happy? I said NFL contracts suck. Simple sentences going forward. Discuss. NFL contracts. Good or bad. Hint: it's an OPINION.

Franchise tag was literally what I started with before you hopped on to my last post lol

Cool...

I'm saying the franchise tag sucks and your point is he plays in a league with a franchise tag... Huh. Maybe that's where we disagree lol I really gotta dumb it down for you geniuses

He's 26 and can hit the FA if not for the franchise tag. If you'll call the possibility of a franchise tag that can go for any player that's of his status a contractual obligation than.. agree to disagree. But we both understand what happened. If Bell was average he'd have hit free agency and not be tagged. Makes a lot of sense ?. I understand the narrative you want.. but what happened to Robert Woods?? Huh he hit free agency! Weird! Yeah that's exactly what I said. Why does Bell's rights belong to the Steelers ? they tagged him. He completed his rookie contract. Idc what he gets, what happens. But he didn't need to sit out a year because he was good enough to merit a tag. Who cares. He doesn't want to play for the Steelers. If y'all had a burning desire he would play for the Steelers cool. Come out and say it. He wanted out and was forced to stay. Call me a neutral fan that prefers to see the best players in the league play a season. Doesn't happen in other leagues.

There's been some battles going on. Bye week going nuts part of the season I suppose.

Lol that's positive thinking. He's probably on the same page there. I NEED A DOME.

Was thinking of Lhetonen that's right

Bell wasn't allowed to hit free agency. You said he thought he was worth more and the Steelers disagreed. Why wasn't he able to know what the LEAGUE thought. Butler wasn't at the end of his contract and he has more freedom than a dude that completed his contractual obligation in another league. I know what happened to Butler lol. Do you not understand the difference between these two? They're in different leaaaaaaaaaaagues Do you understand what I'm saying lol I know what I'm talking about because it's so simple. There are two players. At odds with their team. Want to get out. One has finished his contract. One hasn't. Knowing that information would you guess which one would have more leverage? No. Because NFL and NBA treat players differently. IMO the NFL is pretty crappy with theirs and the union sucks donkey.

I'm talking about all the NFL players. But Bell can do whatever he wants. No one's "winning". Sucks for the Steelers not having RB depth and another weapon given Connor was in concussion protocol. Sucks Bell has to sit out a year without pay. I think both sides were too petty as I see former NFL players baffled at the situation. They can't fathom resenting teammates over money, they're all in it together: co-workers. Doesn't happen in other leagues. Imagine the top basketball or baseball players sitting out a year over a contract. They get shipped out via trade or cut.. but they can always play every year when healthy. Bell's not playing behind this offensive line that keeps making backhanded comments towards him. Screw that haha that's a runningback's nightmare if you have any suspicion your OL aren't trying to protect you. Look at what Jimmy Butler was able to do in the NBA. We can argue till the cows go home who is in the right.. Steelers/Timberwolves? Bell/Butler? At the end of the day one league allowed that top player to play and the other doesn't... And it didn't make any difference to the teams they both lost a player. But Butler gets to get out and Bell has to stay?? WHY did the Steelers hang on to him? Simply because they could. That's really bizarre man. I don't think the players foresaw how the franchise tag would be used: to hold up stars from hitting a proper free agency market rather than to give middling players more money in a season than they might get in their whole careers.

I just assumed Anderson and Barkley signed here pretty sure they'd have to start if Allen was hurt. I guess maybe Anderson thought he'd back up Allen, Barkley knew he was signing up to play right away lol what a weird situation for these outside Quarterbacks looking in.

I was saying 3rd = Tyrod = Kelvin I don't see much difficulty getting them lol. Not that it matters but I honestly can't remember the last time we nailed a 3rd. FACT CHECK: our best 3rds in the last 20 years are Preston Brown or Goodwin.. guys we never kept. But we suck at drafting. That was like.. a throwaway point saying it was used to grease up a few spots. No I'm not ****ing looking it up but we traded up what like 6 spots to get Edmunds? And that cost us a 3rd? Was that 3rd that valuable compared to the 1st we packaged so the team could move down and get something out of of that. It greased the deal. It wasn't Joe Montana I bet.

He played professional football. That's an amazing feat many dream of few can do. He flopped like hundreds have done because it's so hard. We've released so many players earlier than Peterman and they were very talented too. That said... Dude nobody in the national media gives a flying **** about the Buffalo Bills. The fact that Peterman has been brought up is because he is so fantastically bad. You can be bad and not be noticed.. and then you can be Peterman bad and the national media is going to be like "oh yeah what's going on with that team?" bad. Literally what other Quarterback has had his career trajectory, it's quite newsworthy. Like you bring up the badgering of the national media like it's a curse.. it's a signal that he's so bad they are going to give him lip service on precious Patriots talk! That's all the average fan literally knows about the Bills! National media isn't usually wrong about the Bills because they don't even bother to have hot takes with them. The only time Bills are brought up is when they are obligated to speak about something so strange like starting Peterman. Blame the coaches, blame the media, blame us(????), BLAME PETERMAN, man's in charge of his football career if he was any good he'd be pissed he was a 5th rounder. He looked like he hates football! For the love of God write me a love letter on the resilience and talent of Torrell Troupe. PLEASE. Because no one cared lmao.

Dude turned it ON for the Stars in the playoffs before they lost to the Sharks. Thanks Sabres! And the Olympics.. I think. Don't follow hockey too much.

No we need to develop Allen and show him how to lose.. in every way possible. For as long as possible. And he'll be hungry to win when we are ready.. or majorly depressed he got drafted to "develop and lose" Al Davis famously said "just lose baby!" I get his point but.. clarify that sentence. Sounds like develop (long term) and lose (this year) are being conjoined into "develop and lose".. until fully developed? What until he's 30 like the rest of his draft class in their prime? Lol.

But ya gotta admit.. this year SUCKS And there ain't no guarantees. 2019 is judgement year. We can't keep living like this boys! Give me hope at LEAST by the month of November! All I want is meaningful football again.. this show marches on and it's long and weary but we can do it. We can play meaningful football next year. And if not.. we take a loooong look at the mirror and see if we look like we're turning into the Browns.. and we march along to a new beat

The Wentz/Goff and Trubisky/Mahomes class is great. We haven't had consecutive good quarterback drafts for forever. Can't wait till these old farts get out and we have a guy for once. We just saw sparse elite Quarterbacks come through for like 8 years. Matt Ryan and Russell Wilson and Cam are the only middle aged Quarterbacks i'd rate with the best of them

That would be insanity. Ryan to Jones is thier identity. But if McB trades the farm AND pays the bucks?? Best. Whoever is in charge of the team / HC / GM.. EVER I'll tank for him. I'll tank and tank and bring back Peterman if he's available for high picks.. I'll take back literally my entire rhetoric about this season It's no different than Whaley's EJ to Watkins gamble but we got to risk this for our offense. Whaley's didn't payoff but every GM has to pair their franchise Quarterback with a stud.

Dude works. Need that hustle.

That was intense. But at least Ned's got the right idea on Friday night.

Couldn't help it Alpha. I was literally trying to steer you back to the hypothetical and you found it categorically, and factually illogical. And it is! Because Tyrod ISN'T on the team. But I tried very hard to bring you to grasp the alternate dimension where Tyrod is starting. And I failed you. I'ma steer ya'lls vitriol to the sillier of arguments in this thread ^ How long does bye week last? Do we play on Sunday?

The most roundabout way to donate money haha but it's better than nothing.. I guess. I donate deer cause it's a pain to do anything else with it. Too lazy. I just buy venison the next day and pretend it's my deer. I'd pocket the money to get a new car hahaha. Or are you donating scrap metal. Now that's a real charity. Are there really that many deer up there? We gotta give up an arm and leg to legally kill em. Cause.. they're not trashing our backyards and eating everybody's garden enough in Texas. They SUCK and will run straight into my stopped car full speed for no reason, break their necks, and hobble off to die with my car body just wrecked. $2000 body work. Thanks for killing yourself on my car multiple times deer.

Bigly. I told stay away from the damn Tyrod thread haha. Made my brain hurt with how off point it was inevitably leading past page 3

Iol I've had too many arguments today in the dumb Tyrod thread. Just trying to chill. Yeah we're talking about the same dude.