Michael Pittman Jr!

[SteelerSask2]

Listening to the guys on McAfee Im really excited about this move. Finally we get a very good receiver who is not a head case. If they get the usual idiot in the third round with a ton of talent they can use him up for four years.....Im good with it.

 

[topseed]

Rodgers sat behind Favre for 3 years; Love sat behind Rodgers for 3 years, and now we have the Packers braintrust running the Steelers QB situation. That's my observation, not my plan.

Good point.

 

[topseed]

Or got one when Ben hurt his elbow and was obvious near the end of his great career.

But we got Bush, so there's that.

Can't believe that Devin Bush is not only hanging around the league, but also thriving -- Chicago just signed him to a 3-year, $30 million deal with $21 mill guaranteed! What could the Bears possibly see in this guy?

 

[topseed]

Good point.

Great minds think alike.

 

[Hines57]

Listening to the guys on McAfee Im really excited about this move. Finally we get a very good receiver who is not a head case. If they get the usual idiot in the third round with a ton of talent they can use him up for four years.....Im good with it.

His head has been scrambled courtesy of Kazee

 

[bigben]

It's not that he wasn't worth keeping, they couldn't afford to keep him and Peirce and Jones, and they still have to pay for others.

It wasn't like he was trash... It was much like the Tuitt or Hargrave for us several years ago. They had to make a choice. They need to extend Jones, Nelson, Buckner, Taylor and a host of other players that make up almost their entire roster. If you look at who their FA's for next year, it's A LOT!

If they felt he was worth keeping they would have found a way to keep him. It's pretty simple

 

[jitter77]

More targets, more production, but he's a possession guy. For all of his accumulation stats, no pro bowls or all pros in 6 years.

He's a volume guy on a team where he was the best option. Not that Doubs is special, but he's more explosive and 3 years younger.

The way the Steelers are currently constructed, the offense is going to be played within 10 yards of the LOS.

I get it, but every team needs one of those guys. We don't really have a steady consistent guy. DK had the drops, but can make the flashy plays. We need a good route running chain mover

 

[Badcat]

I didn't know a damn thing about the guy, so I watch this past season's highlights and he seems to be a very good possession WR. He gets open, catches the ball, and fights for the tough yards. Not a lot of speed or YAC to be excited about. But he's better than the what we have had at the #2 WR in a long time.

 

[Litos]

More targets, more production, but he's a possession guy. For all of his accumulation stats, no pro bowls or all pros in 6 years.

He's a volume guy on a team where he was the best option. Not that Doubs is special, but he's more explosive and 3 years younger.

The way the Steelers are currently constructed, the offense is going to be played within 10 yards of the LOS.

That's what the draft is for, to find the explosive guy

 

[Litos]

If they felt he was worth keeping they would have found a way to keep him. It's pretty simple

Look at Sherlock over here

 

[insaniti]

If they felt he was worth keeping they would have found a way to keep him. It's pretty simple

You've been playing too much madden. They just signed Alec Peirce to a huge contract, they just signed Jones to a big contract, Jonathan Taylor will need extended... It's a balancing act, tough choices must be made, at a $29m cap hit, they didn't want to be the Bengals and have 100m tied up in WR with no defense.

We've had to watch guys walk over the years for the very same reason. Every year the super bowl winning team loses a bunch of players because they can't afford to keep them all.

So again, it wasn't for lack of production, strictly a money issue

 

[bigben]

You've been playing too much madden. They just signed Alec Peirce to a huge contract, they just signed Jones to a big contract, Jonathan Taylor will need extended... It's a balancing act, tough choices must be made, at a $29m cap hit, they didn't want to be the Bengals and have 100m tied up in WR with no defense.

We've had to watch guys walk over the years for the very same reason. Every year the super bowl winning team loses a bunch of players because they can't afford to keep them all.

So again, it wasn't for lack of production, strictly a money issue

No team in the league is taking 29 million cap hit for Pittman, regardless of who else they have to pay.
Chase and Higgins have a lower cap hit 2026 than Metcalf and Pittman.
Thats nuts

 

[insaniti]

No team in the league is taking 29 million cap hit for Pittman, regardless of who else they have to pay.
Chase and Higgins have a lower cap hit 2026 than Metcalf and Pittman.
Thats nuts

That's what happens at the end of contracts in the NFL. It's why these types of trades happen to begin with, and why they're are always cap casualties. Until Lamar and the ravens redid his deal, he was set to count 74m this year.