Originally Posted by smokin3000gt
seriously.. we didn't make the bet, why must we suffer?
seriously.. we didn't make the bet, why must we suffer?
Humph. Keep it up and I'll find one even WORSE. I know they exist.seriously.. we didn't make the bet, why must we suffer?
See you Space Cowboy ...
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Bell and his agent going on a media spin tour with ESPN and SI to put lipstick on their pig of a contract negotiation strategy
Turns out Bell's clown agent did not know Bell did not need to report last season in order to qualify for free agency in 2019 - masterful knowledge of the CBA there
Bell said Thursday he absolutely intended to show up on the team's bye week in Week 7 to sign his tender and get to work. But shortly before then, Bell learned that he didn't need to play any games to hit free agency. Before then, he thought he needed to play six games for an accrued season, but turns out he was free as long as the Steelers didn't tag him again. The Steelers ultimately decided the $14.5 million transition tag for 2019 was too steep.
http://www.espn.com/blog/pittsburgh-...r-in-nfl-exile
Of course there was no master plan before then either. As Bell tells SI:
His original goal was to only miss Week 1. As certain events began to unfold leading up to the season opener, however, Bell started to contemplate missing more games.
"At first I was literally thinking like, 'I don't want to play camp and OTAs' because of the hurt in my body and I'm like, 'I'm not playing,'" Bell told Sports Illustrated. "When Week 1 comes, I'm going to come, but the things that kind of led up to Week 1, I started thinking, 'I'm not going to play Week 1.' After even Week 1, it started to build up and it's not making me feel comfortable."
Bell said he couldn't recall specifically what kept him from returning early on in the season.
https://www.si.com/nfl/2019/03/19/le...-steelers-jets
You forfeited $850,000 a week in salary and you don't remember why exactly you did not report?Whatever Le'Veon was smoking must have been damn good.
yeah, smoking weed does make you forgetful.
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Bell and his agent going on a media spin tour with ESPN and SI to put lipstick on their pig of a contract negotiation strategy
Turns out Bell's clown agent did not know Bell did not need to report last season in order to qualify for free agency in 2019 - masterful knowledge of the CBA there
Bell said Thursday he absolutely intended to show up on the team's bye week in Week 7 to sign his tender and get to work. But shortly before then, Bell learned that he didn't need to play any games to hit free agency. Before then, he thought he needed to play six games for an accrued season, but turns out he was free as long as the Steelers didn't tag him again. The Steelers ultimately decided the $14.5 million transition tag for 2019 was too steep.
http://www.espn.com/blog/pittsburgh-...r-in-nfl-exile
Of course there was no master plan before then either. As Bell tells SI:
His original goal was to only miss Week 1. As certain events began to unfold leading up to the season opener, however, Bell started to contemplate missing more games.
"At first I was literally thinking like, 'I don't want to play camp and OTAs' because of the hurt in my body and I'm like, 'I'm not playing,'" Bell told Sports Illustrated. "When Week 1 comes, I'm going to come, but the things that kind of led up to Week 1, I started thinking, 'I'm not going to play Week 1.' After even Week 1, it started to build up and it's not making me feel comfortable."
Bell said he couldn't recall specifically what kept him from returning early on in the season.
https://www.si.com/nfl/2019/03/19/le...-steelers-jets
You forfeited $850,000 a week in salary and you don't remember why exactly you did not report?
And here I thought his holdout was for a higher calling. I thought he was sacrificing himself so that all the other running backs would get their true value...…..
Josh Harris knows why...
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Apparently so
Bell jumps on the Ben is a bad teammate bandwagon in the full SI story
Bell says Roethlisberger wasn’t the only factor in his wanting to leave Pittsburgh—but “yes, it was a factor.” Bell says he and Roethlisberger didn’t quite vibe; Bell wishes they’d shared a “more open, more genuine, more real” relationship. He says players didn’t feel like they were treated by the QB as being on the same level as him. “Quarterbacks are leaders; it is what it is,” Bell says. But “you’re still a teammate at the end of the day. You’re not Kevin Colbert. You’re not [team president Art] Rooney.” ...
“The organization wants to win. Tomlin wants to win. Ben wants to win—but Ben wants to win his way, and that’s tough to play with. Ben won a Super Bowl, but he won when he was younger. Now he’s at this stage where he tries to control everything, and [the team] let him get there. He adds: “So if I’m mad at a player and I’m not throwing him the ball—if I’m not throwing A.B. the ball and I’m giving JuJu [Smith-Schuster] all the shine or Jesse [James] or Vance [McDonald] or whoever it is, and you know consciously you’re making your other receiver mad but you don’t care—it’s hard to win that way.”
https://www.si.com/nfl/2019/03/20/le...gency-contract
IMO this is clearly bullshit on Bell's part. His contract negotiation strategy failed and now he is grasping at post hoc excuses for why he did not take the Steelers deal by repeating what he heard AB say to force a trade.
@AtlantaDan
I’m waiting for Bell to bleach his mustache. Until then, I won’t take his words seriously.
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Not certain adding a bleached mustache would provide any help for someone who rambles like this
Click the video and you tell me if you can keep up with his thoughts.
https://triblive.com/sports/first-ca...hunt-penguins/
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Gold chain is thick, bro.
Doesn't every elite quarterback want to have a lot of say in how the offense is run, and gets it? I mean Manning and Brady I'm sure call a lot of the shots in the offense, I'm sure Brees and Rodgers too. Quarterbacks that are limited by their system are usually that way because they aren't that great.Apparently so
Bell jumps on the Ben is a bad teammate bandwagon in the full SI story
Bell says Roethlisberger wasn’t the only factor in his wanting to leave Pittsburgh—but “yes, it was a factor.” Bell says he and Roethlisberger didn’t quite vibe; Bell wishes they’d shared a “more open, more genuine, more real” relationship. He says players didn’t feel like they were treated by the QB as being on the same level as him. “Quarterbacks are leaders; it is what it is,” Bell says. But “you’re still a teammate at the end of the day. You’re not Kevin Colbert. You’re not [team president Art] Rooney.” ...
“The organization wants to win. Tomlin wants to win. Ben wants to win—but Ben wants to win his way, and that’s tough to play with. Ben won a Super Bowl, but he won when he was younger. Now he’s at this stage where he tries to control everything, and [the team] let him get there. He adds: “So if I’m mad at a player and I’m not throwing him the ball—if I’m not throwing A.B. the ball and I’m giving JuJu [Smith-Schuster] all the shine or Jesse [James] or Vance [McDonald] or whoever it is, and you know consciously you’re making your other receiver mad but you don’t care—it’s hard to win that way.”
https://www.si.com/nfl/2019/03/20/le...gency-contract
IMO this is clearly bullshit on Bell's part. His contract negotiation strategy failed and now he is grasping at post hoc excuses for why he did not take the Steelers deal by repeating what he heard AB say to force a trade.
Have fun playing for the jets. Good luck against the patsies.
Who cares.
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Both Bell and AB are dicks. But I’m not going to entirely dismiss what they say about Ben. Because much of it rings true. I mean the general manager comes out in a public statement saying that Ben is the daddy and the other 52 are his kids. Is there more proof needed than that?
Those mean older kids hurt my feelings so I decided to walk away from 14 million dollars.
That makes a ton of sense.
Also, is anyone surprised that the older by over a decade QB from small town Midwest America doesn't vibe with AB and Bell? Other than their employer, these guys don't have a single thing in common. I suspect all three are annoying jerks in their own way!
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And it’s cutting off the oxygen supply to his teeny, tiny brain.
That is pretty much the crux of it.
Who wants to hang out at the club with jerks who are stupid as fuck and way into themselves? Other jerks who are full of themselves and stupid as fuck, that's who. Who wants to talk about your shitty rap tracks? Dumbfucks who are into rap music and want to be your friend so bad that they pretend to like your shitty version of it.
In other words, the types of people who "keep it real" with the likes of AB and Bell-Luther-King-Einstein are going to be the groupies who want to hang around because of their money and fame, which makes them feel like their own status is higher. The average NFL quarterback who has more money and more fame than you, and who would be "the old guy at the club," does not really fit that profile.
I mean, Ben does not have the reputation of being the smartest son of a bitch in the world, and is no stranger to nightclub/party shenanigans (of a slightly different variety) ... but if even he is not interested in hanging out with these meatheads, that ought to tell you something.
See you Space Cowboy ...
We lose the best WR the game. We lose one of the best RB’s in the game.
Yet, we’re all happy.
Good riddance to two egomaniacs.
AB now has Burfict as a teammate...love it.
We didn't lose Bell, he was already gone last season. Offense didn't skip a beat. We just lost AB, we'll see how they respond to that.We lose the best WR the game. We lose one of the best RB’s in the game.
Yet, we’re all happy.
Good riddance to two egomaniacs.
AB now has Burfict as a teammate...love it.
I'm optimistic, we still have the same starting o-line (Gilbert basically never played much at all), same RBs, and Big Ben is still our QB
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