AB's Contract

Does anyone remember what AB's signing bonus was? How much money is guaranteed?

 

Brown should already be sitting on a 25 million dollar nest egg, after taxes and bling.

He has maybe 7 years left to play, maybe 8 more years. So he should be able to retire with a 100 million dollar nest egg, even if things play out as is.

There is no reason for players to spend over 250k a year. The average American probably lives on 25k a year.

AB needs to find some intelligent friends, and spend less time crying about cash and bling.

 

Problem is sports pay in general. Every time someone gets locked up somebody else sets the bar higher and like it or not it swings the pendulum. Happens at every position. Somebody over reaches, over pays and it sends a tsunami throughout the league. Problem I see is Pitt has a way of doing things, when they step out of their way... It usually goes bad. See woodley for one example. Seems like they knee jerk to keep up at times... Ala Tez Allen. Id love to pay AB whatever the market's fair share is, but don't want it to kill us cap wise and tank other parts of the roster.

We'll find out in the next year or 2 if he's a homeboy playing by what is the fair price and in the best interest of the team, or a me guy and bounces. Coming down the pipes sooner than what he inked on his more than generous deal which was made on a hopeful whim at the time... Guaranteed!

 

And guru, the idea of asking them the to consider the salaries of the commoner that pays their salary is kaput! When football was football these guys had a plan B in the offseason... These kids nowadays give a rip and could live a lot better than we can or the legends could off of on one years salary for a lifetime than was ever dreamed of before.

We can't imagine those selling their rings etc trying to make ends meet 20+ years ago... It'll only get worse and the sad part is, I've been a fan for damn near 40 years and may never be able to take my family to see the team. My old man never could and he's the reason I love these a holes!

 

I say no new deal for AB, it sets a bad precedent. He outplayed his contract but too bad, go help your team win a Super Bowl first.

 

Too bad? come on! If AB were underperforming and dropping passes like DHB out there I guarantee this whole board would be up in arms demanding a pay cut or his release. But since he's outplayed his contract (very significantly) he shouldn't want more? I'd want more if I were him. He deserves more. It goes both ways IMO. Extending someone earlier for absolutely demolishing his contract production wise doesn't set a bad precedent. In all reality it should motivate players to keep getting better so they have an opportunity to cash in even more.

With that said it won't get done this offseason, but I will be incredibly disappointed if it doesn't between this year and next.

 

Ever watch Ballers on HBO? It's a good representative of the life of NFL players. These guys get used to living the high life.

 

Colbet says he won't renegotiate Brown's deal.

http://triblive.com/mobile/8950240-96/brown-contract-steelers

 

Sorry. He signed the deal 2 years ago and wasn't worth the money then but steelers seen he was a hard worker and had potenial. They rewarded him. He needs to keep it up for 2 more years and THWN and only then should he see more

 

I disagree, if you give AB a new deal then Bell and his agent might want to redo his deal so that's a bad precedent. I'm not going to feel bad for AB if he can't live off his 6 million salary then oh well. The Steelers should try to extend players who will be free agents soon like Beachum, Decastro, and not a diva WR who has 3 years left on his deal.

 

Not a comparison with Bell, since he is on his rookie deal. The fact of the matter is that we don't have any comparable player/contract situations to AB. The only way we would is if Cortez Allen magically morphed into Darrelle Revis, or if Mike Mitchell started playing better than Kam Chancellor, or if Heyward within the next couple years starts out-shining JJ Watt... Like I said, a situation like this is so unique. You hardly ever get a guy who out shines his deal to the extent that his salary is about half of his market value on a second contract. We may not have a similar situation within the next twenty years, so handling it differently wouldn't be an issue idt.

And I agree with you about trying to extend Beachum and DD, but calling AB a "diva" is a bit much.

 

I disagree as well. He's going to get paid handsomely with another contract and he knows he is going to get paid big. However, he and Rosehaus felt like they had the Steelers by the balls after his huge season and tried to take advantage of it and leverage the team with pressure. Fortunately the Rooneys don't respond to being pressured. AB quickly realized that and pulled an immediate 180 on Rosenhaus by going back to the team first, humble hard worker guy he started out as. And that is a compliment to AB, it shows intelligence on his part.

He is an elite player and will get paid like one closer to when his contract is up. There's no need to pull that hen house crap like an Ocho Cinco or a T.O. would do. AB is better than that.

 

AB does act like a diva sometimes, arguing with Haley on the sidelines about not getting the ball there was a report he was complaining in practice this week about the same thing. Celebrating every first down and TD, and now the contract situation. It's a moot point anyway Colbert said this week they won't redo his contract.

 

I will be honest and say i didnt read all of the post and opinions of people.
With the steelers there is only one way. They forgot about that way and got themselves into some trouble with the salary cap. Tomlin understands how it works and knows performance it kept to a higher standard (ie. the standard is the standard)
We are all fans of the steelers and we know how business in conducted. We should all know how it works. Everything is bigger then any one individual. Its the pittsburgh steelers.

 

$8.5 million signing bonus.

As far as guaranteed money goes, define "guaranteed". Everyone has a different interpretation of what that means.

 

Well said...

 

What I like about the Steelers is, if it gets bad and starts to wear on the team. AB will play his contract out, go to Miami and Bryant will get a nice 5 year deal. Then three years in he will B*tch and the new guy will get a nice deal 2 years later, after Bryant then goes to Miami