"You've heard people brag about 'being in the zone'. They don't know what the Hell being in the zone is about. I played in the NFL for 15 years and I was only in the zone that one time." - "Mean" Joe Greene on the 1974 playoff victory over Oakland
What a tool.
I don't think Bell has any cards or leverage left to play as much as he wishes he does... he either shows up week 10 or he doesn't. I think the steelers have pretty much 'let go' of the situation and have moved on. Next!
Bell's got a lot of nerve. What a douche canoe.
The team doesn't have to agree to anything. You get paid when you show up.......period.
I would be shocked if they agree to what he's asking for. I know I wouldn't.
Unsurprisingly, Bell is not very popular in Pittsburgh ...
This is also absolute BS.
When was the last time we saw a Pittsburgh players who was still with the team (I include the pirates and the penguins too) be unpopular as Bell is right now ... Barry Bonds?
Mike Wallace was not very popular in his last year, but not like Bell is right now ...
Plaxico did a pretty good job of pissing people off in Pittsburgh too.
So in three years will Conner be holding out?
No Bell today - Steelers are not pining away for him
“In our locker room we’re not even worried about it,” defensive captain Cameron Heyward said. “It’s unfair for me to even talk about him. He’ll have to answer his questions when he wants to. We’re not talking about him right now. We have the Cleveland Browns. If he joins along the way, so be it. It’s not fair to everybody in this locker room and Le’Veon himself to keep talking about him.”...
“You have to roll with what’s in front of you,” veteran offensive lineman Ramon Foster said Monday afternoon. “Right now, we just had a practice without him. Who knows, maybe we’ll see him. I haven’t talked to him, nobody has.”
https://triblive.com/sports/steelers...leveon-bell-at
Now Bell does not want a trade? Then why hold out? He's not getting any younger or smarter.
All Defense!
If he does not sign by the trade deadline, it is obvious his endgame is to collect a paycheck for doing nothing for half the season, and we should release him at 3:59 on the deadline day or he will sign at 4:01 and we will be stuck with the bill. $7.5 million for not playing.
See you Space Cowboy ...
Does anyone seeing any team at all signing him for what he wants?
At this point, I don't think so.
I’m not sure about getting what he wants. But if he hits free agency healthy he’ll get a lot. And whatever it is, his agent will spin it in a way to claim victory. No matter what the results are, Bell will claim he got exactly what he wanted. If someone runs the numbers and claim his decisions cost him money, he can always fall back on “it was never about the money... it was about respect” or some other thing.
Bell will claim forever that he wanted to reset the RB market. Which he did. If there had never been any Bell saga - like if he had just agreed to long term deal the Steelers offered years ago before they had to start tagging him, Gurley would not have gotten the deal he got.
Bell will always have that PR spin in his pocket “I took the hate and the fallout all onto myself to reset the market for all of us, and I did. If I sacrificed any money or goodwill for it, so be it...” etc.
He’ll never admit to a mistake. He already has cover to claim that he achieved his
To me his greatest crime was deceiving his teammates. Everything else is just decisions he’s entitled to make based on whatever criteria he wants. He was never a problem teammate and he always played with heart.
I think he’s weird and everything, and I think he acted against my PREFERENCES. But if he the Steelers got a GREAT DEAL for what they got out of him for the money they paid.
For his rookie contract he was the best value in the NFL. He played under the conditions of a CBA he never signed. I still don’t agree with him but I don’t hate him. If he comes back the Steelers will be better off for it and we should root for him as long as he suits up and gives it his all like he always has. If he dogs it or fakes an injury... then maybe I’ll hate him.