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Apparently he's still processing Pouncey's retirement. He got use to placing his hands under that booty
https://www.nfl.com/news/ben-roethlisberger-still-processing-maurkice-pouncey-s-retirement

I think Watt would love to compete with his brothers. He has made comments about not wanting to play with them, because they fight with each other. But I bet he would love to play them twice a year for bragging rights.

espeically this.

I couldn't find exactly where to put this, as he's a FA and not a released player.

I wonder if we decide to look at CB Jourdan Lewis, whom is coming off a down year at Dallas...(Dallas D struggled mightily all year, and in 2019 Lewis was looking to be a stud out there) He will be slightly cheaper coming off a down year (btw he missed the game we played at Dallas) and is still nice and young at 25....Can play in and out, and I know there a lot on this board who liked him coming out, including I. He has 6 sacks in the past two years, and you know Joe Woods loves a corner blitz. He isn't going to increase our speed outside, as he more or less is like a younger Terrance Mitchell....just someone under the radar who I thought of.

To be honest going only by what you typed, he sounds not qualified, I mean if they want another prospect they've already got a room full of them.

Side note: I weirdly love Mina Kimes

This might be a little captain obvious'ish, but I would hope we would REALLY do our homework on someone coming from a defense that did as poorly as Dallas.

Their D is on a VERY short list of having a legit claim of being worse than our D.

You do poorly as a unit. That unit can still have lots of really good players. Our D is that example... we were very bad much of the time, yet we have a number of really good players. We just need more of them and fewer holes.

Per the article below, some dude from spotrac suggested 12m/year on their podcast. Separately Peter King suggested a 2 year deal.

https://www.syracuse.com/buffalo-bills/2...h-new-team.html

The 2 year deal makes sense to me, maybe add in a 3rd year team option. $12m feels a little high to me (but who am I). I was thinking $10m.

Maybe offer him a 2 year/$20m deal (low signing bonus, say $5m) with additional incentives. For example, if he has 10 sacks in year 1, he gets a $4m bonus for year 2. If he gets 10 sacks in year 2, the 3rd year is automatically picked up with a guaranteed salary. Things like that.

If he were to suck year 1, we could cut him with low impact ($2.5m dead cap in my example).

j/c:

You gotta imagine a player like him... who's also never been a FA. Definitely a new experience.

Future released player????

If the Steelers cut Roethlisberger they’d still have over $22 million in dead cap. Fun times.

if he doesn't restructure his contract they'll release him... that's way too much money for his performance... but they have zero option at QB... Rudolph isn't the answer for them

I bet the Steelers land Deshaun Watson some way, some how. Because of course they would.

i'd be so pissed.. but I wouldn't be surprised if it happened...

I'm basically going to be holding my breath until Watson gets traded or plays his first game for Houston.

Sounds like Ben is done in the 'Burgh whether he likes it or not.

The statement by their GM was nothing more than a bargaining maneuver working towards a restructure of his contract.

Yes he is. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

Seems legit.

There you go......That was easy.

Wouldn't that be "Cleweland"?. He should have tweeted "Free agency is bedeviling.".

No, no, no....you gotta read that as half of a 'w'....J.J. couldn't make it too obvious!

That tweeter missed something Watt didn't. This town is named after Moses Cleweland.

You mean you don't spell it with a double V?

No ... but I'm villing to consider it.

j/c:



Browns' alumni joining the cause. This Watt-to-Cleweland thing is really taking on a mind of it's own.

If we can sign him for 2 years for 20 to 25 million we would be stupid not to IMO.

and you can't spell "free agency is wild" without CLE Wins.

Lol

A Fujita sighting!?!?!

If that doesn't do it... well then God just had other plans.

I’d take Von Miller over JJ Watt. And I would like us to sign JJ Watt.

Isn't he still under criminal investigation?

Maybe? He was/is under investigation for something at some point. That’s all we know.

j/c...

yeah, Baker compared to the other QB’s of the other teams that can fit him financially

If it was an issue of whether Baker was going to eat into the financial pie too much (like many fQBs do) then there wouldn't even be a discussion. We have Baker for bargain bin prices for the next 2 (?) seasons.

I think Watt is looking to push for a championship. I think that he thinks that his addition to many teams would put their defense over the edge, but the offense has to bring it too, in order to get the 'ship.

add: first read of that tweet I was rolling my eyes, but then I figured it was meant more as "I want to play on a contender" type thing.