You are the GM/DFO

Bud isn't going to accept a low offer of $12 million a year, he will get over $16 million on a franchise tag.

 

Turtle said:

Let Hargrave walk
Cut McCullers
Gamble on the defensive side - Cut Alualu and bank on Buggs and a returning Tuitt (save 2.8 mil If I'm reading it right lol)
DL - Cut Alualu, McCullers, Hargrave signs elsewhere, get FA DT

---Yea you're reading it right

Daniel McCullers DT $1,500,000
Tyson Alualu------------DE $2,750,000
Javon Hargrave DT 27 PIT TBD ----$778,564 UFA Market Value $14M [Wow!]

---Considering that the D line was a major strength last year I was surprised that so many
were letting JH go. Now I think I see why. $14,000,000 MV Geez!

Frankly, whatever is done here will be fine.The Steelers have had the best DL coach in the league since the early 90's and Mitchell is still here[asst.HC now also] and the new DL coach Karl Dunbar[2 yrs] is also excellent.

---It's going to be interesting to see how they handle the D-line.

Oh! I almost forgot---find another Casey Hampton in the draft. I'll settle for a Joel Steed.

Edit: Come to think about it maybe they will let Alualu go he is 32.

2019 DL snap counts [participation %] from Football Outsiders

Player ------------AGE------ Total Snaps----------------D-Snaps---DS%-----ST------ST%
97-C.Heyward PIT 30 DL 997 0 0.0% 885 80.5% 112 26.0%
79-J.Hargrave PIT 26 DL 696 0 0.0% 692 62.9% 4 0.9%
94-T.Alualu PIT 32 DL 506 1 0.1% 440 40.0% 65 15.1%
91-S.Tuitt PIT 26 DL 314 0 0.0% 282 25.6% 32 7.4%
93-D.McCullers PIT 27 DL 193 0 0.0% 132 12.0% 61 14.2%
96-I.Buggs PIT 23 DL 77 0 0.0% 75 6.8% 2 0.5%
95-L.Walton PIT 27 DL 0 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 0 0.0%

 

yes that's fine but he may be looking for the security of a longer term deal

 

They don't need another Hampton type NT, those guys don't play that many snaps with all their sub packages. They just need to find another Hargrave type in the middle to late rounds.