Omar Out?

I am a bit worried (Happy for him but sad for us) to hear that Omar Khan (Steelers chief contract negotiator and cap guru) will be interviewing with the Rams for their GM position. I feel that Khan would have had us under the cap and ready to make some upgrades with restructured contracts and more, but now I am a bit worried... Thoughts?

This was reported on the Trib

 

I think he will/already has a plan in place. Hes not going to leave the steelers high and dry.

 

that would be a brutal blow to our organization

 

Plus its just a rumor so far...I havent seen it confirmed anywhere. He's interviewed before, but has always stayed. I'd be shocked if he actually left.

 

I shouldn't have given him props this morning! St. Louis ownership must have seen it! I hope he does stay. We need someone like that.

I agree that if he does leave, he won't do so without getting us totally squared away for this offseason.

 

well, we all thought we were screwed when donahoe bolted for buffalo but colbert has done a stellar job for us.

 

I'd sure hate to see him leave. Maybe the Steelers can convince him to stay. raying:

 

ye$. there mu$t be $ome way to convin$e him to $tay . . .

 

I was dancing in the street when Donahoe left. I never understood the love for that guy.

 

Donahoe. Now isn't that an Irish name?

 

This would be a great loss. if we lost Omar Kahn.
He is our chief negotiator, and does a hell of a job at it.

 

I'd love to hear that he stays, but a promotion to GM, that's a big deal. I blame this on Jeff Fisher, he knows our organization as well as any competitor, he probably requested they talk to Omar.

 

Let me spout off at the mouth and make a stupid absurd statement........... We may be better off if he leaves!!

I don't know when Kahn became our chief contract negoiator. I don't know all the contracts of all the players but I know this. We are ALWAYS up against the cap and every year for the past several years have needed to cut vets ( okay with this since those cut usually helped us improve) and restructor player contracts ( hate this because it is a borrow from peter to pay paul ). These restructors hurt, not help because it ties your hands down the road. Putting todays money on tommorrows books hurts tomorrow. He's relying on tomorrow having more money ( cap increase ) and that is not being financially responsible or a proper way to run a business.

Stop gap measures are just that and shouldn't be a way of business.

Why are we not active players in FA? Because of Kahns mis-use of cap money. Why are we always up against the cap? Because we overpay way too many people. Ben is a 100 million QB? Ward, as much as we love him, shouldn't have gotten that huge of a contract. Other teams pay less for as good or better players which leaves them room to be competitive in the market place. You can't pay every starter top dollar.

Since I've been accused of making controversal statements just to provoke others ( not my real intentions) I guess I'm ready for the bashing to begin.

Cajun-

 

you are obviously clueless..Omar has done a great job with the Steelers. The Rooneys have done everything to keep him over the years. So now you are going to question their decision?

this is what I think of your post


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEkWH8DB7b0

 

Why is every person that's supposed to leave some huge blow to the organization? I don't doubt Khan's importance, but they'll find someone else that can do the job. Things change... People leave.

I thought it was hilarious when Keith Butler was supposedly leaving, you'd have though we were losing Vince Lombardi.

 

Oh Yeah, I'm Clueless. Paying your bills with your master card is how smart people do it!! And how DARE me to question the Rooney's decision. Heresy I say, just plain heresy!!!!!!!!!!

Enjoyed the video clip. Made me laugh.

 

Cajun,

I pretty much agree with 99% of your posts, but I think we can agree to disagree on this one.

 

if he could only learn to pick linemen. this seems to be his weakness for the most part. i know, i know he got pouncey and gilbert looks ok, but wow we have had alot of misses since he's been trying.

 

if he leaves does he take that $25 million over the cap with him?

 

I have no problem with you. I think I'm as smart as half of the people here and as clueless as the other half. Whether we agree or not you gotta admitt being pushed against the cap every year hurts our ablilty to be active in FA for that key star OT or OG or NT we need. Stop gap measures in cap relief produce stop gap players on our LOS. Kahn is point man so he gets the blame from me.

I also feel there are alot of financial gurus in the NFL who can do a better job though I know not who they are.

Cajun-

 

Cajun the steelers have never been really active in the FA market. Yeah we are ip against the cap every year but do you really think we would have the talent we have withou being up against the cap. Show me one team that is always good thats not up againt/over the cap.

 

The biggest reason we don't go into FA for big names is we re-sign our own. Guys we've signed the past few years to long term deal (Harrison, Woodley, Polamalu, Ike) would've been top names in the market.

 

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2012 cap projection appx 124 mil

A few teams that's always in the hunt like the steelers
NE=102 mil
Saints=113 mil
ravens=115 mil
colts=116 mil ( excluding 2011 they're always in the hunt)
Packers=118 mil
Chargers=112 mil
Giants 124 mil
Texans=116 mil ( up and coming though not historical powerhouse)

Raiders=140 mil (worst run team in the NFL)
Steelers=149.8 mil ( worst cap situation in the league- we mortaged our future instead of being disciplined and the piper must be paid/will be paid and the players we're stuck with are either aging or underperforming as a group)

The road to a 7th trophie may be a long and painful one now if our rookies and 1st/2nd year players don't step up big time. Hard decisions need to be made.

Yes we sign our own but my point is being missed, we quite often sign them to too large of contracts. Ward was too much,Timmons was too much. Ben was too much. Mahan and Kemo was too much.

Cajun-

 

Interesting data there cajun. You may have something there after all. I always did think we overpaid Ben the last time around. We gave him something along the lines of double what Manning and Brady were making and he's never really been in their league, IMO. I may have to delete that Billy Madison clip (even though I don't really want to.)