We should have never let KENAN LEWIS GET AWAY

I was watching the eagles game last night LEWIS has become a monster and Collinsworth echoig that all night.We let go of a corner in his prime to keep a 33 yr old Taylor, hope they wake up from this and don't let Worils walk and let fat Lamar get traded

 

I think you will find on here somewhere I said we needed to keep him. I also called his breakout season last year BUT, I think he and Mike Wallace both decided they wanted to leave. They were childhood buddies

 

i thought the same ..

 

When will we ever hear the end of this

 

Collinsworth, and others, have also said many times that Lewis wanted to go home to N'awlins. Or was that someone else?

 

[h=1]Apparently Keenan Lewis Wasn't in the Steelers' Free-Agency Plans After All[/h] [h=3]By Andrea Hangst
(AFC North Lead Writer) on March 15, 2013[/h]




The Steelers let Keenan Lewis leave without an offer. Why?

Jason Bridge-USA TODAY Sports
When Tuesday's start of free agency approached, it seemed to be consensus that the Pittsburgh Steelers' biggest priority was to secure cornerback Keenan Lewis to a long-term deal. The way the Steelers cleared cap space by releasing linebacker James Harrison and restructuring four other contracts hinted that at least Lewis would be among their re-signings.
Instead, Lewis headed out of Pittsburgh to meet with, and eventually sign with, the New Orleans Saints, receiving a five-year deal worth $26.3 million plus a $6 million signing bonus.
Though it sounds like an expensive deal, according to Dave Bryan of SteelersDepot.com, it was one the Steelers could have afforded themselves. The breakdown of the money is such that the contract would have cost the Steelers just $1.72 million in cap space this year—a completely reasonable amount considering the team is presently around $13 million under the salary cap .
So what happened?

Well, according to Lewis' Twitter feed, the Steelers didn't offer him a new deal at all—not to begin with, and not after he had been courted by the Saints. It appears that Lewis was never the high-priority re-signing we all thought he was heading into the new league year.

 

The cap numbers depend on you ask:

Kenan Lewis contract
according to Dave Bryan of SteelersDepot.com, it was one the Steelers could have afforded themselves. The breakdown of the money is such that the contract would have cost the Steelers just $1.72 million in cap space this year—a completely reasonable amount considering the team is presently around $13 million under the salary cap .
So what happened?

 

Well, I thought Keenan's cap number was closer to 2.3m in new orleans? Not sure we had the room and he might have already told them not to bother with an offer cause he was home sick? Who knows, it really shouldn't be a big deal just because NO won one playoff game.

For what it's worth, we had 3 players with equal or more PASSES Defended than Keenan Lewis..... Cortez Allen 13, Ike 12, Troy 11, Keenan 11

 

I question those cap numbers as well:
But,They spent that much to keep Ike here, and he certainly isn't a premium corner by any stretch of the imagination, to lose a talented corner while keeping an under performer boggles the mind...

 

we used 2,5 milion for sanders that was one year rent , could have used for lewis and took the 3rd pick from the pats ?

 

And we couldn't sign Lewis, but could do this????


Taylor had a base salary of $6 million this season, according to Spotrac. By converting his base salary into a signing bonus the Steelers can spread the cap hit over 2013 and 2014, the final year of Taylor's contract.The move will give Pittsburgh some room to operate, especially if it needs to sign additional players due to injury, but will also increase Taylor's salary cap hit in 2014. Taylor will now count for close to $12 million against Pittsburgh's 2014 salary cap and it would cost the Steelers slightly less than $5 million in dead money to release him.

 

I said it at the time he left they needed to re-sign him and then have Allen and Lewis as the starting CB's they should've released Taylor and taken the cap hit. When you have young talent you need to make it work financially, stop overpaying for guys in their thirties who aren't performing at a high level.

 

No way!

 

What about he wanted to play for his hometown team don't you guys understand?

 

The article above he says he was never given an offer by the Steelers? I'm sure he did want to play for his home town team, but it didn't sound like he made a choice between them and the Steelers?

 

At least we kept PFF's 104/109 rated CB in the ENTIRE LEAGUE this year. one Ike Taylor

 

He did...but I also remember him saying he wanted to stay a Steeler too. But they never offered him a deal and let him go. This whole thing has been beat to death here and elsewhere...we all would have liked to keep him...they Steelers didnt see/put him in their future plans and thats the end of it. time to move on!

 

I take it he played well last night? I seen the saints a few times this year and his nickname could have been toast

 

And of course in what has become a far too common occurrence in a DL coached defense the player doesn't get it figured out until the end of his rookie contract making him susceptible to the free agent market. WE MUST BEGIN DEVELOPING THESE PLAYERS A LOT QUICKER THAN IN THE PAST SO WE'LL BE ABLE TO SIGN THEM TO AN EXTENSION AT A MORE OPTIMAL POINT IN THE ROOKIE CONTRACT. You have to have a pretty good idea what you have about halfway through their initial contract but as long as it takes brain surgeons and rocket scientists in order to be effective in LeBeau's complex defense we're never going to be able to keep our defensive superstars. And when you're told, like Worilds was, that no matter what you do or how you perform you're not going to get on the football field then that further exacerbates the issue. I've got a feeling next year that somebody may be starting a thread entitled "we should have never let Worilds get away".

 

There's no way we keep woodley over worilds. right?...