I agree, if he doesn't go play and show what he can do, he will only look like more of a Diva and his value will plummet. He is being an idiot. I am sure they offered him a fair deal versus what he is making now and no less than what he will get franchised next year. He is sinking his own boat and trade value.
I would tag his *** next year. Make him sit or play for what would be fair money.
How can the Steelers be worth $8.7B, Arthur controlling at least 30% by NFL rule and the owners, all of them, not have enough money from annual profits of around $150M to enable an operating balance to handle escrowed funds? Those escrowed funds would fall off escrow as used annually.
Yes, and we add to them annually. Again, the difference for the Rooney's is the Steelers are their sole source of income. The "value" of the team is meaningless unless they are selling or borrowing against it. is imaginary money Unless you want to be like a certain party and tax unrealized net gains and net worth.
Fun fact.....if true. A friend just sent this to me today.
Well that just means a cheap offense. They use the cap up to the top every year, that doesn't make them cheap or not
I appreciate JPJ for wanting a contract extension, but holding out this point is dumb and the team needs to figure out this "injury" thing and start fining him for missing games. You're also right, he'll never make up the last money he passed on this season. If and when he eventually signs elsewhere, it's highly unlikely he'll play out the contract and lose out on another potential $50 million (that is IF he gets $100 million in guarantees).
It sounds like you are playing both ends just to criticize Rooney
They kept a near paralyzed Shazier on the roster to get him enough seasons to get into Vested Vet Programs... that meant still paying him and keeping him on PUP..
The owners of the bears and lions are having significantly more success than Rooney in the past 10 years and are in the the range of his net worth. Your argument of net worth limiting Rooneys ability to compete and sign players has been debunked with your own article
This is my thinking. If all teams did this maybe players would stop acting like entitled brats. Most teams would offer players fair contracts with some room for negotiation
The league forced them to divest their horse racing and gambling operations a while ago because it was a bad look for the league to have *cough* owners involved in gambling *cough* so as I recall that stuff got handed off to other family members not connected to the Steelers.
as others said, the league took a hardline stance on it..
Not the first time. Couple years ago they repeated something I posted here verbatim.
I think that's the consensus of everyone not named Porter. I get trying to get the best deal for yourself that you can, but Jr may well be destroying his future in the process.
