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well, it is a one-year deal so they have to have a plan B for later years. I would guess that they'll take a QB in the draft someplace. See if they can do a Purdy. I am not as sour as most on Pickett. The O sucked under the old coordinator and got marginally better under the interim. We'll see what next year holds.Sources say it’ll be for the veteran league minimum. Are the Steelers basically admitting that drafting QB KP in the first round was a mistake?
Russell Wilson: Pittsburgh Steelers to Sign Ex-Broncos, Seahawks QB - Sports Illustrated
The former Broncos quarterback has found a new home.
Wilson will be the best QB the Steelers have had in at least the past 5 years. Pickett is totally incompetent and unskilled and Big Ben was washed up toward the end of his career. Hopefully, the Steelers dump Pickett and draft a QB to be Wilson's backup. The USFL is up and running so Pickett can get a job as a backup in the USFL.Sources say it’ll be for the veteran league minimum. Are the Steelers basically admitting that drafting QB KP in the first round was a mistake?
Russell Wilson: Pittsburgh Steelers to Sign Ex-Broncos, Seahawks QB - Sports Illustrated
The former Broncos quarterback has found a new home.
Yeah, Pickett isn’t the man. Weak arm, slow wind up, poor pocket presence.
For a 1 year deal, taking a chance on Wilson is a no brainer. With Pickett scheduled to make $2mm and Wilson only costing the Steelers the veteran minimum of $1.5mm that's only $3.5mm of next year's salary cap designated for the QB position so far.Sources say it’ll be for the veteran league minimum. Are the Steelers basically admitting that drafting QB KP in the first round was a mistake?
Russell Wilson: Pittsburgh Steelers to Sign Ex-Broncos, Seahawks QB - Sports Illustrated
The former Broncos quarterback has found a new home.
The Steelers are becoming the Pirates. Broncos are paying Wilson $40 million to not play for them.
Good point. The Steelers are desperate to replace their major draft screwup -- the stiff Pickett. Mason Rudolph would be a good alternative but he wants due to mistreatment. The Steelers lured Wilson to Pittsburgh to try and make fans forget about their Pickett blunder.
That's what they said about Bill Madlock too, way back in the day. It worked out pretty well for those Bucco's....
Huh? Steelers have had winning seasons for over a decade and finished the year being 26th of the 32 teams in cap space (meaning, they outspent 25 teams).
Why? Maybe he won't take us to a Super Bowl, but merely competent QB should get us to the playoffs again.
Yeah...well, the Broncos sent his agent a letter stating that if he didn't renegotiate his contract, he was going to be benched. The CBA doesn't allow teams to threaten players to sign a new contract. The contract is a contract. They can ask, but they can't threaten. So there is ample reason for Wilson to be upset at the Broncos.
This is looking like the Pens getting Karlson. Sign Wilson for one year and hope it goes well before the defense collapses. But it might cause lots of problems.
I'll be shocked if Pickett isn't the starter. But if he fails, you'll see Wilson quickly. But at his age, Wilson is a one-year guy. If he does great, he'd FA out to the highest bidder and the Steelers are going to break the bank for a 26 year old. He's there to add some senior leadership to the QB room. He may play, to get them through the year, but if Pickett doesn't flourish, they'll be on the market looking for a new QB in 2025.
There is a big difference. Wilson came into Denver riding a five year $242,000,000 contract. So the expectations were crazy high. He had an awful head coach. Even the new head coach called the former coach out. The new coach is a dictatorial guy who was successful in NO with his hand-picked guys. He, and they, didn't feel Wilson was worth the contract so tried to force him out in a way that lowered their cap hit.
Wilson didn’t come here to be a backup. He needs to start, play well, and get a huge contract next year. At his age he isn’t signing anywhere to sit the bench and be a player coach. He could go other teams and start so why sign with the Steelers if he isn’t going to start?
If he was going to expect to start, he'd have a bigger contract. Either with the Steelers or some other team. He's been told by the NFL that he is now a journey QB lucky to be in the league. QBs with big ego and high expectations don't sign for $1.2m Hell, Baker Mayfield is signing a $100m contract this week.
He is getting paid $35 million. But he wants to start to get one more big contract. And finish his career on top.
You’re funny. Bill Madlock was only 1/3 of the way through his career with 2 batting titles already in his pocket. Russell Wilson’s career is effectively over.
Huh? Steelers are a .500 team who blew a first round pick on a backup quarterback. Now they have no quarterbacks and no chance to win much of anything except the Keep Tomlin Employed Award by finishing.500 again.
OK, but they aren't the Pirates. When is the last time the Pirates were over .500? Last time that they are above 2/3rds of the league in player salaries? When is the last time they made the playoffs?
My comparison was in regard to MadDog being considered selfish and a bad teammate which was why he was available to the Bucs.
In a traditional sense, they and the NFL teams are the predators, and the females or player in this circumstance the prey.
Yeah...not going to get into the deets but my god, they are talking like a woman is a man's possession. Did it ever occur to these idiots that a woman might be on the market because she wanted to be?
If you are married (and I believe you've stated that you are), how did your proposal for that arrangement unfold?
The relevance is a young, accomplished player traded to a winning team with veteran leadership is much more likely to be motivated to contribute to a championship run than a disgruntled veteran who is over the hill and disparaging his team on the way out. The Steelers are going nowhere fast and signing Wilson is just an admission that they made a critical mistake in drafting Pickett in the first place.
Shannon Sharpe has the brain power of an end table and Stephen A (A$$hole?) Smith has the personality of an insect infestation.
Actually, as the legend goes, Captain Willie sat Madlock down and let him know how things worked with the Pirates and in their clubhouse. I'm sure winning helped, but that is my understanding of how that trade was a success.
Yes. It was kind of mutual. We met via a blind date and after a few months knew we’d be married. There was no proposal. We just knew it was right and drove to the jeweler
Rudolph is an unrestricted free agent and can sign with any team he desires.
That's a wonderful story. But if Mrs. Obli didn't make Obli Jr. become a Doors fan (Mr. Mojo rising), then it's a moot point.
Getting a bigger contract would only hurt his current team...he's making what he's making next year, and anything that the Steelers pay him is just offsetting/dropping the amount that Denver owes him. The thinking was that whoever was signing him would be doing it for the minimum, regardless of what they expected to be his role.
