Diva
Translation: I'll stay if the money's right.
It probably won't be (especially in light of who his agent is and the probability that some idiot bottom-dwelling team will pony up $20 mil a year for his services, and where his numbers will precipitously drop), so enjoy him now, folks.
However, if the team plays its cards right, they can effectively keep him through the end of Ben's career and at that point it more than likely won't matter for a good while anyway as the next string of Stoudt/Malone/Brister/O'Donnell/Stewart-level QBs begins.
Not a diva, but some idiot GM somewhere, or more likely, an idiot owner who fancies themselves as a GM (Dan Snyder, Jerry Jones, come on down!) is going to throw stupid money at him at some point and he'd be a fool not to take it.
I think the fact that Rosenhaus started working on the Steelers FO last year while AB still had THREE years remaining on his current deal tells the real story here.
Rosenhaus just leaves a bad taste in my mouth. I know T.O. was a prick but his shenanigans got worse with Rosenhaus. Don't trust him.
If Brown want 20 million per year he will have to wait another 3 years since the steelers will put the franchise TAG on him after the 2017 season.I not believe that Brown wants to wait 3 years before having a big contract, so I think Brown is going to have a new contract next year.
And Jerry Jones was unwilling to pay Dez Bryant 20 million per year(or the same contract than Calvin Johnson) last year....
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If Rosenhaus was so bad, Antonio Brown would make a holdout last year.....I have no problem with him if Brown not make a holdout.I think Rosenhaus has a bad reputation because of Terrell Owens.
Brown will be the highest paid WR in the NFL and this is normal because he is the best receiver in the NFL in the last 3 seasons.
Come on Papa Smurf. You know that English is not the beast's first language.
I think the beast is trying to say that "Brown will be the highest paid WR in the NFL, and that should not be surprising, because he has been the best receiver in the NFL for the last 3 seasons."
Yup. I looked around really quickly and couldn't find salary data for the era - but $5 million dollars a year for a guy who you could've won a SB with in a 3 yards and cloud of dust era? Sounds reasonable to me.
Now if that contract put him in the say top 12 QB's for salaries - then no way you match it.
I honestly don't remember what that contract looked like when compared to the rest of the league.
Maybe.I think the Steelers would have been in the super bowl with O'Donnell in 1997 even if the Broncos had an incredible team.
He was not a great QB but you could win with him if the team was good around him, much like Joe Flacco right now.
Of course, I still can not believe his two horrible interceptions against the Cowboys in the Super Bowl.
Well, that's what the Steelers thought, and wound up waiting 10 years to get to another Super Bowl. So did the Ratbirds with Trent Dilfer. Two QB's that were nothing special, but did something worthwhile, so they went for the "upgrade", and it blew up in their faces.
Nobody is going to confuse Neil O'Donnell for Dan Marino, but he was what the Steelers (at the time) needed. A decent game-managing Quarterback.
The Jets threw that money at him like he was superstar, when he clearly wasn't. He was a product of the Steelers system.
I wouldn't have kept him for free.
I haven't mentioned his name (out loud or in writing) since XXX. Not only did he lose that game, you'll never convince me that he didn't intentionally throw it (pun intended). He had the lowest INT percentage in the league... yet, he all of a sudden throws THREE of them. I'm sure that Jerrah slid him a fat envelope prior to the game.
I would rather have had Joe Montana in 93-94. I know this was before O'Donnell left for free agency in 96 but Cowher and Donahoe said no.
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The Ravens won one with Trent Dilfer due to a historic year on defense and the fact that they faced a completely nondescript Giants team (outside of maybe Michael Strahan) in the big game that year. Kerry Collins, enough said. Never in the history of the Super Bowl has there been a bigger case of a team winning it all when the QB was really only along for the ride than the 2000 Ravens. Hell, their offense went for two solid months without scoring a TD at one point during that season.
The Bills have been trying to replace Jim Kelly since 1996. The Dolphins have been trying to replace Marino since 1999. The Broncos had been trying to replace Elway since 1998 when they finally broke the bank for Manning in 2012, and are now headed into 2016 with Butt Fumble as probably their most viable option at QB. Yeah, good luck with that repeat attempt.
A LOT of people are in for a rude awakening when Ben either retires or becomes ineffective. Franchise QBs are a pretty rare thing.
I guess my main point is that I seriously doubt that O'Donnell sticking around would have changed the "close, but no cigar" nature of many of the Steelers seasons in the late '90s/early '00s. He finally got his one big chance in XXX and he screwed the pooch. He simply wasn't a good enough QB to get an otherwise really good team over the hump.