THE OFFICIAL UNOFFICIAL STEELERS BS THREAD..PART6

[grayghost668]

I see some of you are back

 

[LeaderOCola]

Aaron Smith is legitimately a HOF worthy player but in their scheme nothing he does produces a box-score stat. Good bye to another legend who is sadly just a bit long in the tooth. Bring on Farrior/Foote and Kemoeatu.

 

[BigBlueNation111]

I see some of you are back

Thanks Misk! Howdy ghost and thanks ol buddy!

 

[MISKO]

Aaron Smith is legitimately a HOF worthy player but in their scheme nothing he does produces a box-score stat. Good bye to another legend who is sadly just a bit long in the tooth. Bring on Farrior/Foote and Kemoeatu.

youth is no substitute for experiance

 

[LeaderOCola]

Steelers To Release Chris Kemoeatu | Steelers Depot

now if only they can get out of colon's contract after this season.
the OL might be decent moving forward if they draft 2 IL in the mid rounds

 

[LeaderOCola]

youth is no substitute for experiance

no, but being too old to play more than 1/2 the season or 20% of the snaps while still being paid more than 3% of the teams cap is unacceptable

smith played 15 regular season games in the last 3 seasons
ward played about 5 snaps a game after week 8 last year, and their effort to get him 1000 (while deserved) cost them at least 1 game

 

[MISKO]

dont get rid of everybody .. we will be just as bad as the eagles

 

[MISKO]

dont think we will keep wallace either

 

[LeaderOCola]

Some online estimates indicate cutting Kemo, Smith, and Ward will free the team about 8.1M in cap space. With Farrior/Foote that will easily get them to around 11M . A restructure of Harrison and they'll be set to go with resigning Wallace to a long termer.

 

[MISKO]

thats the point they dont want to pay him that much everyone on the team is taking cuts and he still wants the big big bucks ..thats not a team player .. I would tell him take a hike

 

[grayghost668]

evening loc,

me I'm going to sit back and see what happens

 

[MISKO]

we need to think about picking up a back up qb too

 

[MISKO]

i think ward will be back

 

[LeaderOCola]

thats the point they dont want to pay him that much everyone on the team is taking cuts and he still wants the big big bucks ..thats not a team player .. I would tell him take a hike

everyone they've cut is on the downside of their career and already made $, and could be replaced by a 1st -2nd rounder this year and get equal production (or greater) than what was given last season . as for not being a team player, comeon, it's a business on both sides....

wallace is on the upside of his career and is likely all pro for 4-6 more years.
he was an amazing find in the 3rd round valuewise , and is the reason why brown and sanders do as well as they do. The reason why brown and sanders were drafted is to complement the offense based on what wallace adds to the offense. they will be without a true #1 WR if they let him go, which if they had a starting RB not on IR, an OL that could runblock inside the 5, and an offensive coordinator who favored run over pass might make sense. but none of those are true. no wallace, no offense-- end of story. drafting WR's to complement him is WHY the OL still sucks. losing him is doubling down on fail . everything about him screams 2000 yard season in this offense if the team stays healthy. they finally have the draft position to actually adress the OL early in this draft, if they lose him they have to go WR shopping in the draft all over again and the OL gets ignored. In a given draft you're lucky to find 2 players who ever become regular starters..... They have to start someone from this draft at NT, and OG at a very minimum. That means drafting 2 people at each position if it isn't addressed in the 1st round (which is where ILB should be addressed).... that's 5 of your draft picks, and you still need RB depth. Odds of finding a replacement for Wallace in the 5th-7th is pretty low.


/rant off

 

[LeaderOCola]

we need to think about picking up a back up qb too

i like russell wilson a lot as an undrafted FA

 

[LeaderOCola]

holy shit I need a drink

 

[MISKO]

we can get rid of some dead wood like leftwich ,, persuade batch toretire and tell dixon to take a hike and dont look back

 

[MISKO]

i like russell wilson a lot as an undrafted FA

who did he play for

 

[MISKO]

i got a feeling the vikes are gonna draft a new qb .. id lure ponder to the burgh

 

[LeaderOCola]

who did he play for

he transferred and finished his career at Wisconsin
if he weren't so short he'd probably be a 3rd-4th rounder