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Steelers will reportedly decline Broderick Jones' 5th-year option

Coryea said:
There is zero chance that Colbert wanted to trade up for Bush, that's a Tomlin pick, trying to get his LB that can cover other teams WR's in his Dollar General Tampa 2. I'm always putting more of the blame on the coach than the GM. IMO the coach says who they want the GM makes it happen. The manager of a restaurant isn't going to go buy the ingredients if the Chef says no.
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Its nice to speculate without facts huh?
 
Drink IRON City said:
That 5th year option would have a little over 19 million dollars guaranteed.

I think I’d side with you on this one.

You can’t blame the whole debacle on Broderick as Tomlin jacked him around his first two seasons.

He played decent 3rd, till injury. Had no injury occurred…… who knows his ability to date could be way better.




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Tomlin jacked him around how??
 
steel dino said:
I always hate to see when we decline a fifth year option on a player…
That indicates a failure in your organizational process… either the draft process, player development process, or coaching failure… or all of the above..
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We may get a glimpse as to whether the problem lies in coaching this year. No one was praising the developmental process from the previous staff. What has happened to Kevin Dotson (another thread) gives hope that Jones can be salvaged if healthy.
 
We kinda screwed Jones around, but his attitude didn't help either. When he played he ranged from serviceable to awful. I don't recall any games were he looked like a franchise tackle. I think coaching / scheme certainly played a part in that, but I agree that he should be on a prove it year
 
That non move was definitely expected given the scenario.

Best of luck to BJ getting healthy and having a long prosperous career where he can exit the game still healthy.

Best case scenario now is the Steelers getting a valuable prove it season out of him, hopefully he can return to health and stay healthy. Rooting for the young man.
 
Litos said:
Nope, but he Might have been tagged
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Why would that be? The franchise tag would be $25.8 million. Jones's 5th year option was $19.1 million.

Either way, the neck injury was the nail in the coffin on his inauspicious career with the Steelers. They could not risk being on the hook for that amount of money to retain a pedestrian player coming off that type of surgery.
 
topseed said:
Why would that be? The franchise tag would be $25.8 million. Jones's 5th year option was $19.1 million.

Either way, the neck injury was the nail in the coffin on his inauspicious career with the Steelers. They could not risk being on the hook for that amount of money to retain a pedestrian player coming off that type of surgery.
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Because Rooney
 
This was revealed via 'trial balloon' about two weeks before the draft. Either Jones' neck is not right, or the Steelers want to move on or both. I'm guessing both.
 
slashsteel said:
I believe he is referencing playing him on the right side instead of his natural left.
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He didnt jack him around though. Okorafor was terrible at RT and ended up being benched and so they had no choice but to play him at RT since Dan Moore seemed the better option at LT. So essentially they were forced into the move. Anybody who actually followed the team would know that ...not some troll who jumps online to type the first thing to come into his rabid brain.

If not Jones at RT then who was the better option to play at RT in his stead?? Jones actually had a better than average rookie season so playing RT was not the issue. His issue is between his two ears moreso then anything else because he doesnt have that dawg in him and he plays lazy a lot affecting his technique and focus. That has nothing to do with him being jacked around.
 
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steelhurt said:
They had no other choice here with the uncertainty of Jones’ injury but this is alarming that no first round pick hasn’t had his fifth year option picked up since the 2017 draft.
Let’s face it, Colbert in his later years and now Kahn haven’t exactly had the greatest drafts.
The 2022 draft class has left us zero return which stings big time in what would be their fifth season coming up.
Lots of failed number ones over the last several seasons. Jarvis Jones, Devin Bush, no number one in 2020, Naji Harris, Kenny Pickett, Broderick Jones ( not looking good). Also, a number of number two picks.
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Lots of poor scheme fit and reaches there. I'm sure it's not helped by drafting at #20 or thereabouts but you'd think at least half would have been good enough to stick.
 
slashsteel said:
I believe he is referencing playing him on the right side instead of his natural left.
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Add in that Tomlin chose Moore to be starting LT over Jones.

Jones clearly thought he was better than Moore and let that positioning battle work against his state of mind. Sort of like a boil festering.

Moore ranked dead last in LT evaluation of all starters for that season, justifying Jone’s line of thinking.

Tomlin eventually told the Media that Moore couldn’t play RT (not true) and thus cementing phycological contempt.

Behind closed doors there was way more controversial going on than what is mere fans had privy.

The thing is, even as a rookie green-horn……. Jones was a better LT than Dan Moore and it took Jones a while to over come the mental side of that decision.





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