2017 Pittsburgh Steelers Thread

[Troy Loney]

Can this finally be the year that the Patriots trend towards irrelevance?

[the wicked child]

Can this finally be the year that the Patriots trend towards irrelevance?

Tom Brady still exists, their division is trash... So probably not. But would be nice.

[LITT]

brandin cooks is going to have 3500 receiving yards

[willeyeam]

Can this finally be the year that the Patriots trend towards irrelevance?

lol no

[Troy Loney]

According to my father in law, the Boston talk radio scene has already crowned them SB champs. But I'm guessing that's an annual thing.

I just looked at a preseason power ranking, I think there's a pretty clear top tier, especially in the AFC, and getting the top seed is going to be a pass to the AFC championship game.

[blackjack68]

Harrison is still a solid depth LB. If you manage his snaps, he can still have an impact, albeit not as large as it used to be.

Correct...as usual.

[nocera]

https://twitter.com/JFowlerESPN/status/ ... 2188710913

Drama Ben: Camp Edition.

[count2infinity]

That man is a saint!

[blackjack68]

https://twitter.com/JFowlerESPN/status/ ... 2188710913

Drama Ben: Camp Edition.

Drama Ben in mid-season form.

[Viva la Ben]

Enjoy the series finale of the Ben Roethlisberger era.

[blackjack68]

You just gave me a sad.

[slappybrown]

Doesn't he have to play this year and next or he owes millions?

[Viva la Ben]

He's reworked his contract so many times, I bet it is is a small(relative) amount

[Dickie Dunn]

Shazier is considered week to week due to a hamstring injury. Vince Williams and Dirty Red might be your week 1 starters at ILB.

[willeyeam]

Shazier hurt? What?

[slappybrown]

He's reworked his contract so many times, I bet it is is a small(relative) amount

I thought I read last year it was 19mm if he walked before last season, like 10 this year if he retires before this season, and maybe 5 or so if he retires and doesn't play 2018. My recollection could be wrong, of course.

[Viva la Ben]

I heard an interview where he talked about playing long enough so his kids will remember watching him play, but now he wants to remember playing with his kids.
I really have doubts about him playing next year.

[Kicksave]

I don't care how good Lev Bell and Antonio Brown are, if Ben retires, this team is F'ed.

[slappybrown]

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/ben- ... e-retires/

16.8 if he retires right now. He has two years left after this season, so assuming its 17mm divided by 3, he'd owe around 11 if he retires after this year and 5.5 or so if he retires before his last year. Steelers could always walk away from it I suppose. Also assumes he doesn't have a clause prohibiting this kind of payback.

[Viva la Ben]

He can afford it.

Roethlisberger is the highest paid Steelers player in franchise history, having accumulated $159,517,882 over 13 seasons.

[willeyeam]

I'm sure he's like every other athlete and has all of it in his savings still

[NTP66]

I'm sure he's like every other athlete and has all of it in his savings still

Let's hope that it's not all in his savings.

[blackjack68]

something...something..millions in hush money paid...

[MrKennethTKangaroo]

I heard an interview where he talked about playing long enough so his kids will remember watching him play, but now he wants to remember playing with his kids.
I really have doubts about him playing next year.

this kind of logic doesn't really add up to this gentleman. Aren't big ben's concussions basically a sunk cost at this point? He has had multiple concussions on the playing field and this gentleman recalls that he got a concussion during the infamous motorcycle accident, too. In other words, if he brain is going to be mush, the damage is done. If he want to continue to play for a few more years, it is not like his brain is going to be any mushier than it already is

[dodint]

Wow.