Cam Heyward does not plan to attend OTAs as he seeks a contract extension.

If they give him an extension, I hope it's a team friendly deal, don't overpay for what he has done in the past.

 

I like Cam, but dude is the definition of Mr. regular season, can't have one of your best players continue to be a no-show in the playoffs.

 

I believe that is where the players go to hookup with other players and workout. Also, some time in the training room with the trainers.

Fee free to post Picks of Cam working out at the local Golds or 24 hour fitness.

 

That’s not really fair. The whole team has been no show in the playoffs.

The issue is the timing of all of this. He is 35 and coming off an injury that really hampered his production all last season. It’s a huge bet and massive risk to commit a lot of cap space to Cam in the future. If Cam is confident in his abilities still and his health then I’m hopeful he will agree to a fair deal requisite with his age and recent injury history. A deal heavily incentivized based on performance and availability is the only fair deal for player and team.

 

No severance pay like they did for Ben R the last 5 years. Totally stunted the Steelers reload process.

 

Maybe I’m wrong, but I thought Ben did a team friendly restructure

 

Ben didn't have a choice Art ll said if he wanted to return, he would have to take a pay cut.

 

You guys are hilarious. As if nobody would have wanted Ben Roethlisberger if he hit the market in 2018. Even when he was injured, he would have still been worth something to a team willing to take a shot at a title.

The Steelers ran out a young QB in Pickett, and an established but untapped QB in Rudolph to sign Russell Wilson. A guy that his last 2 teams didn't want anymore and is in his late 30's.

The Steelers could have gotten a king's ransom in draft picks for Ben if he wanted to go anywhere. As if Big Ben needed to be loyal to the Steelers in order for him to play anywhere.

There were quarterbacks that literally sucked that made close to what Ben was making at the end of his career. So he injured his elbow at the end of a HOF career and tried to come back. Oh the horror! Then he leads them to an 11-0 start before the wheels come off of another team.

People that think he was holding the team back are delusional. He was the guy keeping the team competitive. Did Ben miss on a bunch of draft picks? Did Ben make his coaching staff turn into a group of dinosaurs using no modern offensive concepts? Was Ben responsible for bad free agent signings with the money they cleared up by signing him to contract extensions in the first place that caused the cap issues? That would be a big NO to all those questions.

And for those of you that are bitching about how much money they paid Ben, he signed a deal to basically play for nothing in 2021 to lower the hit on the team.

https://www.nfl.com/news/ben-roethlisberger-agrees-to-new-deal-with-steelers-for-2021-season

Without Big Ben, Mike Tomlin would only be dreaming of never having a losing season. This isn't a bash Mike Tomlin post. This is a fact to anyone that understands the impact Big Ben had on those untalented teams during the seasons some of you are bitching about.

Bitching about a Hall of Fame quarterback especially after seeing everything that has followed after his retirement......

 

Can I get an Amen???

 

I think we will make some sort of shorter term/team friendly offer to Cam, but he is nearly done.

 

Should someone camp out at his house and sneak photos of cam working out at his home gym?

 

He should do sit ups in the driveway dogdammit!!!!!

 

I guess I will if someone will pay me well enough to do it.

 

That was way after the Steelers foolishly over paid for Ben R services.

 

I don't think they will; that's what his contract in 2020 was for. I expected them to try an extension earlier this offseason, as it allows the team to convert some of Heyward's base to signing bonus and thereby reduce his 2024 cap hit while taking no pay cut. They can still do that of course, but I'm not sure what they'd be clearing the money for, seeing as they're still $18.2M under the cap.

 

I forgot about him being a captain.

Great point.

 

Are you drunk or on drugs? I'm being serious.

You've accused me 3 times now of stuff I've never said or been associated with.

 

I'm really not a fan of him. And that's not just because of what's going on now. Last year wasn't just someone who dealt with injuries. It dealt with someone who wasn't giving it their all.

Some players, like Troy, fought so much. But cam is the opposite. You don't see him making a play than going to the sideline to hit oxygen and coming in the next play. Instead we all watched him not play for majority of a drive and only came in at the red zone and still failed to help. We saw so many drives of him only coming in on the third.

And now he thinks he deserves more money and 3 years.

 

I'm just curious. What DL player have you seen that declined between 32-35 for two years and then came back stronger at 35+ years?

 

Let go pull aaron Donald out of retirement.

 

Are you drunk or on drugs? Do you not even know what you are writing?

 

He declined from All-Pro to Pro Bowl with 10.5 sacks in 2022. Yeah, that's a massive fall.

He was either out of the lineup or playing through a significant injury all of last season. Of course, Heyward is a big risk coming off a major injury at his age, but your comparison is overly simplistic at best.

 

And How is Cam different? Both around 35 and in the decline of their career.

Ben took an actual $5 million pay cut his final year, let's see what Cam does.

Is there a betting line for the number of games Cam will play in 2024? Because of this whole not attending workouts and OTAs, I would guess under 10.

 

Wait, cam went thru being 32 to 37 before?

..... yep you're on something.

 

$20 bucks an hour sounds about fair !