Steelers sign Worilds to 1 year deal...9.7 mill

[K Train]

He can definitely hold them hostage on $9.7 million and not sign a long term deal if they dont open the wallet enough. Sucks

[hawaiiansteel]

He can definitely hold them hostage on $9.7 million and not sign a long term deal if they dont open the wallet enough. Sucks

that's exactly what Max Starks did...

[K Train]

Sure, you can say "players want the long term security"...but realistically, $10 million is $10 million. He could mike wallace it for a year to "prevent injury".

Signing this is not a loyalty thing on "he wants to stay", signing this is a payday until a long term pay day presents itself.

Steelers dug their grave on this one if they arent prepared to pay the man

[squidkid]

this was a bad move by the FO only to be out done by a worse one once worilds signs the long term deal that will be offered.

[feltdizz]

I got ya, but wasn't this announced this morning?

yep... but if the long term numbers look a little fuzzy I could see Worilds taking a one year deal. $10 mill is $10 mill.... I want security but if the security isn't to my liking I take one year and bounce...

[Slapstick]

Were they supposed to just let him go?

[steelsnis]

You guys are nuts! This is great news. If Worilds left, this place would have been in FULL FREAK OUT MODE for giving up a 26-year old pass rusher. Now, by all accounts, Worilds quickly signed the 1-year deal, eliminated any chance of signing with another team, and is expecting to work out a long term deal that will lower the cap # and keep him in Pittsburgh for years to come.

What's everyone bit**ing about???

[Oviedo]

You guys are nuts! This is great news. If Worilds left, this place would have been in FULL FREAK OUT MODE for giving up a 26-year old pass rusher. Now, by all accounts, Worilds quickly signed the 1-year deal, eliminated any chance of signing with another team, and is expecting to work out a long term deal that will lower the cap # and keep him in Pittsburgh for years to come.

What's everyone bit**ing about???

So true. If he walked next week it would had been cited as another Colbert/Tomlin failure. Keeping Worilds is a good thing.

[papillon]

You guys are nuts! This is great news. If Worilds left, this place would have been in FULL FREAK OUT MODE for giving up a 26-year old pass rusher. Now, by all accounts, Worilds quickly signed the 1-year deal, eliminated any chance of signing with another team, and is expecting to work out a long term deal that will lower the cap # and keep him in Pittsburgh for years to come.

What's everyone bit**ing about???

I don't think we're b****ing about it, but we are questioning the salary number and getting him under the cap, and allowing rookies to be signed and participate a bit FA, that's all. Not to mention many believe that he's as injury prone as Woodley and he doesn't have a complete season under his belt as the starter. The Steelers just basically gave a backup 10 million dollars for one year, we're curious is all.

Pappy

[feltdizz]

You guys are nuts! This is great news. If Worilds left, this place would have been in FULL FREAK OUT MODE for giving up a 26-year old pass rusher. Now, by all accounts, Worilds quickly signed the 1-year deal, eliminated any chance of signing with another team, and is expecting to work out a long term deal that will lower the cap # and keep him in Pittsburgh for years to come.

What's everyone bit**ing about???

the numbers... 10 mill is hard to fathom. I know the chances of a long term deal and money being spread out is high. If he gets hurt early or looks like he did before the last 8 games it's a big number to swallow.

[K Train]

I think worilds is about half the player hes being made out to be.

And getting paid for double what he would deserve...ironic

[Ernie]

Way over paid for Worilds, one year, 9.1 mill, can't justify it. This is pretty disappointing to me, I hope he produces, but what if he's injured again?

If he gets injured again.... that's a familiar scenario (ie Woodley, Polamalu, Pouncey, etc).

[Ernie]

I don't understand the one year deal. Would have been fine with signing him to a 3-4 year deal. Definitely going to be some speculation as to who is cut, etc to compensate for this signing

[Shawn]

Actually, I think it's smart. Worilds was a half season wonder. On the open market, some ignorant team would have signed him to a large long term contract. So the Steelers transition him, making it tougher for teams to come in and sign him. Yes, they overpaid for his serviced this year...but it give them an additional season to evaluate Worilds talent. If he continues with his dominance...then they sign him long term. If not, then they dodged a 50 million dollar bullet.

[Shawn]

I suspect Troy might be the the cap casualty and not Woodley. I believe the Steelers save around 8 million by cutting Troy. Woodley would give some relief but there is so much dead money...and the Steelers hate dead money. Not to mention JJ is an unknown commodity. I suspect JJ won't find his own until the 2015 season.