I love that we signed Antonio, but really we had him under contract for last year at less than $1 million. Basically, we signed him for a 4 year extension at $10.4 million. We could have signed him this off season for the same deal he signed last year and got an extra year out of the deal. I generally have faith in the front office, but I don't like these kind of deals.
Also, I'm not one of the many who think Omar khan is a genious. He has kept the team together by mortgaging the future. Unfortunately, it has now caught up with us.
Talking about contracts on a $/year basis in the NFL is useless.
In a league where you can be cut at the drop of a hat, you really need to look at signing bonus and distribution of $$$ to understand if a contract is good.
For example two 3 year contracts:
--------------Contract 1-------Contract 2
Bonus----------$15M------------$10M
Year1-------------5M---------------5M
Year2-------------6M---------------7M
Year3-------------7M--------------11M
----------------------------------------
Total------------$33M------------$33M
Total/year-------$11M------------$11M
Same on a $/year basis. But contract 1 is way better if you get cut. I think agents don`t point this stuff out to their clients too much because they get paid on the total value of the contract, not the amount that actually gets paid to clients. I`d guess that there is a big different in the NFL.
Why, because he got hurt? That's like saying they made a mistake with Ben because he got hurt last year and then wasn't 100% after that. Do you think Brown was 100% when he came back. How many big returns were called back because of penalties. Something Wallace seemed in capable of doing despite his supposed otherworldly speed. They signed the more complete player as Brown's over 2,000 yards in combined yardage proved in 2011. They signed the player they wanted long term and it will prove to be the right decision.
"My team, may they always be right, but right or wrong...MY TEAM!"
Or.... the Steelers signed a guy based on 1 year's production, then after signing watched his production & impact dip significantly, while mental errors & ball control issues arose in his game.
2 sides of every coin.
And if you are going to use the "Wallace could get injured & therefore isn't worth the contract money" line, you can't absolve Brown because he... got injured.
The people that are trying to make the world worse never take a day off, why should I?
Light up the darkness.
Browns overall performance would have been much more impressive if there weren't so many penalties on special teams. I got to the point where I didn't want him to try to return anything
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