I for one have had enough with those two doing what they want in order to get to other teams.
Especially with AB, who is under contract through 2021, I'd tell him he better get in line because we won't let him go before 2021 and if he fails to report he will incur the fines for that, might as well retire right now. Looking at the cap hit he will give us even if traded and considering we probably won't even get 1st rounder for him, I see absolutely no reason why we should let him go. None at all. If he holds out, so be it. Let's see if he is willing to hold out for 3 years losing millions of dollars and probably not getting signed by a team after 3 years out of football.
For Bell, I'd at least try to give him the franchise tag again and then let an arbitrator sort out whether we can tag him for 2nd tag money because he held out last year. But since we will get $14 million of additional cap space I would support to franchise tagging him even if it is 3rd tag money... just to show everyone, if you sign with the Steelers, you better not even think about holdouts or similar things.
I'm sorry, but with Ben having maybe 3 more years left I'm not willing to let our two best offensive players leave just because they behave like spoiled kids. Unless maybe we get like two or three first round picks or Pro-Bowl players.