Jets Not Breaking the Bank for Le'Veon

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/...-bank-to-sign-leveon-bell-away-from-steelers/

Interesting many still go on the presumption that Bell could get more than the Steelers offered to him last year.

We will see.

The last reports were the Steelers were going to utilize the transition tag on Bell, making it so they can match any offer other teams make. In doing so, they'd still have exclusive rights to him until deciding not to match said offer of another team.


So interesting and as crazy as it has been, as of right now neither Bell nor Brown are not playing for the Steelers next year.


Stay tuned should be interesting. I'm going to bet that Bell won't be getting more than the Steelers offered him last year.

 

At this point I hope we don’t use the transition tag on him. He isn’t coming back and I’d like to have the comp pick for him.

I agree that his best contract would have been with Pittsburgh.

 

I might be wrong but I don't remember any reports on what the Steelers said they were going to do with Bell. If I am right there are many articles about what they should do with him all of which are not from the Steeler organization.

I was a Bell supporter, one of the few on here before the season and right now Bell can go find another team and don't ever come back. JMO

 

Your right bell won't be on the Steelers next year. So why are we still talking about him

 

https://247sports.com/nfl/pittsburg...eon-Bells-reps-in-the-coming-weeks-127926890/

Because the Steelers have not finished talks with him and his agent.

 

Because it’s Super Bowl week!

 

Fair enough. Of course the Steelers aren't anywhere near the super Bowl unless they bought a ticket so might as well talk about something I guess

 

https://steelersdepot.com/2019/01/r...-steelers-might-not-tag-bell-before-deadline/ << dated Jan 17,2019

"It’s hard to know for sure which way the Steelers will go with Bell this offseason and while team president Art Rooney II did admit during a Wednesday interview with Bob Pompeani of KDKA that the organization does have the option of tagging the running back again this offseason should they so choose, he claimed a final decision has yet to be made on if that will happen.

“Again, we haven’t made any decisions on Le’Veon whether we’ll do anything or not, Rooney said. That will be part of the offseason evaluation as time goes on."


There is an older ones. There are others.

https://www.profootballrumors.com/2018/11/steelers-expected-to-use-transition-tag-on-leveon-bell

 

I will be really disappointed if the Steelers use the transition tag on Bell. There is no compensation associated with the transition tag. So to me, if the Steelers use the transition tag on him, that means they want him back. There is no other reason to use it unless you do. This is would send the wrong message to the team IMO.

 

Yeah in the above article Rooney also states that he likes what we currently have at the position with Conner and Samuels. It is largely expected that Bell is gone, BUT the deadline to utilize a transition tag is mid March and if Brown is traded things could get interesting.

 

He probably wont get more money overall I don't see that happening but I also didnt see him living out that entire 70 million contract with pitt. He will definitely get more than 10 million fully guaranteed though.

 

It don't say they are gonna it says that's an option. I don't recall the Steelers saying anything on Bell I do recall just like you pointed out the options they have but nobody has said they were gonna.

 

Bring bell back if they can he just wanted to get paid and he deserves the money I know they can get a deal done spend some money cause being cheap hasn’t gotten them anywhere

 

He had a chance at 14.5 million guaranteed last year turned it down.
And that’s why that $10 million number has to be incorrect.

 

Bell made the most foolish move a professional football player could ever make last season when he declined a 70 million dollar contract in lieu of skipping a season while in the prime of his career as an NFL RB. I have no idea what terrible advice he was getting from his agent but there is no way he will come out ahead in the long run. If he's banking on a Rap career during or after his NFL life then that's one gigantic pipe dream as well. Funny thing is, the Steelers still hold the cards and can still stick it to him if the foolishly choose to do so as well. He's really backed himself into a corner on this one. Not many teams are going to break the bank for this high risk player. At least not for the money he's wishing for.

 

An out of shape, lazy, halfhearted Bell will not yield any positive results on for off the field or the Steelers in 2019. It's really a lose, lose situation at this point.

 

$10M is a number that Bell lovers throw out there when trying to defend the indefensible. It's usually compared to Gurley's $45M "guaranteed" money to show how wrong the Steelers were and again to defend the indefensible. Comparing apples to apples, if Gurley's "guaranteed" number is $45M, then Bells "guaranteed" money is $33M. Or if Bell's "guaranteed" money is $10M, Gurley's "guaranteed" money is $23M. Both contracts are structured the same way. The lesser "guaranteed" money is their signing bonuses. The greater reflects if they are still on the roster in year 2 of their contracts, which both would have been. Lets also not forget that the Steelers offer preceded the Rams offer byu several weeks, so there wasn't a Gurley contract to compare to when they were negotiating with Bell, something else that Bell lovers conveniently omit.

 

There is a level of concern in the building about Bell's motivation if he lands a big payday.

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL. I called this last fall. Other teams are watching.

Bell's value =

 

Who?

 

The fat rapper