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  • hawaiiansteel
    Legend
    • May 2008
    • 35648

    Steelers | Not expected to tender offer to Stapleton

    i'm somewhat surprised by this move, guess the Steelers don't see a future in Stapleton.


    Steelers | Not expected to tender offer to Stapleton

    Mon, 01 Mar 2010

    Adam Caplan, of Scout.com, reports the Pittsburgh Steelers are not expected to tender an offer to restricted free-agent OG/C Darnell Stapleton.
  • D Rock
    Hall of Famer
    • Dec 2008
    • 2797

    #2
    Re: Steelers | Not expected to tender offer to Stapleton

    If he doesn't have a future as a starter or a top backup then theres no need to keep him around.

    Kemo, Essex, Foster, Hartwig, Legursky


    Yep...No need for Stapleton. Gotta keep a spot open for a rookie.

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    • phillyesq
      Legend
      • May 2008
      • 7568

      #3
      Re: Steelers | Not expected to tender offer to Stapleton

      Originally posted by D Rock
      If he doesn't have a future as a starter or a top backup then theres no need to keep him around.

      Kemo, Essex, Foster, Hartwig, Legursky


      Yep...No need for Stapleton. Gotta keep a spot open for a rookie.
      I'm also a bit surprised by the move to non-tender Stapelton. He didn't show great strength, but he did demonstrate pretty good mobility. I would think that more competition for the backup spots would be better. If he gets cut in camp, so be it.

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      • Oviedo
        Legend
        • May 2008
        • 23824

        #4
        Re: Steelers | Not expected to tender offer to Stapleton

        Reading between the lines, maybe Foster and Urbik have passed Stapleton and the team knows he won't be able to beat out either of them.
        "My team, may they always be right, but right or wrong...MY TEAM!"

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        • Steel Life
          Pro Bowler
          • May 2008
          • 1535

          #5
          Re: Steelers | Not expected to tender offer to Stapleton

          Perhaps the knee injury is worse than any thought or his dedication to the recovery training is wanting. Either way, chalk up a rookie being drafted now.
          It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust & sweat & blood...

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          • Chadman
            Legend
            • May 2008
            • 6537

            #6
            Re: Steelers | Not expected to tender offer to Stapleton

            Interesting....Chadman had assumed Stapleton would move into the back-up Center role. Legursky gets a chance perhaps?

            Does this mean interior OL is on the agenda?
            The people that are trying to make the world worse never take a day off, why should I?

            Light up the darkness.

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            • steelblood
              Hall of Famer
              • May 2008
              • 4166

              #7
              Re: Steelers | Not expected to tender offer to Stapleton

              Originally posted by Oviedo
              Reading between the lines, maybe Foster and Urbik have passed Stapleton and the team knows he won't be able to beat out either of them.
              I think it is more likely that he isn't recovering from his injury very well.
              Even if Bill Belichick was getting an atomic wedgie, his face would look exactly the same.

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              • JUST-PLAIN-NASTY
                Hall of Famer
                • May 2008
                • 3937

                #8
                Re: Steelers | Not expected to tender offer to Stapleton

                Legursky? Draft choice? Urbik rumors true? They are heavy in the interior.

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                • MaxAMillion
                  Backup
                  • Dec 2008
                  • 439

                  #9
                  Re: Steelers | Not expected to tender offer to Stapleton

                  This tells me that the Steelers must be banking on drafting a center in this draft. I don't believe they are banking solely on Legursky being the starter in 2011. Hopefully that means my man Pouncey is coming.
                  The Steelers’ went through seven consecutive drafts (2003-09) without taking an offensive lineman in the first two rounds, the longest such streak by any franchise this century.

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                  • fezziwig
                    Hall of Famer
                    • Jan 2009
                    • 3515

                    #10
                    Re: Steelers | Not expected to tender offer to Stapleton

                    When they say they don't plan on making him an offer, does that mean for sure he won't be a Steeler ? What if no other team shows him attention, do the Steelers keep him at a bargain basement price ?

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                    • Oviedo
                      Legend
                      • May 2008
                      • 23824

                      #11
                      Re: Steelers | Not expected to tender offer to Stapleton

                      Originally posted by MaxAMillion
                      This tells me that the Steelers must be banking on drafting a center in this draft. I don't believe they are banking solely on Legursky being the starter in 2011. Hopefully that means my man Pouncey is coming.
                      You will be very disappointed with Pouncey. There is a reason he refused to lift at the combine. he is weak in comparison to the other Centers and will get eaten alive in the AFC North.
                      "My team, may they always be right, but right or wrong...MY TEAM!"

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                      • phillyesq
                        Legend
                        • May 2008
                        • 7568

                        #12
                        Re: Steelers | Not expected to tender offer to Stapleton

                        According to a few of the reports I read, Stapelton is expected to generate interest as a FA. If the Steelers could get a 7th for Sean Mahan, I'd like to think that Stapelton would be able to bring back a late round draft choice. After all, he is young, and he started for a SB winner. That should count for something, IMO.

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                        • Mister Pittsburgh
                          Hall of Famer
                          • Jul 2008
                          • 3674

                          #13
                          Re: Steelers | Not expected to tender offer to Stapleton

                          Originally posted by phillyesq
                          According to a few of the reports I read, Stapelton is expected to generate interest as a FA. If the Steelers could get a 7th for Sean Mahan, I'd like to think that Stapelton would be able to bring back a late round draft choice. After all, he is young, and he started for a SB winner. That should count for something, IMO.
                          We didn't trade Joey Porter. He could of landed us a very high draft pick.
                          @_Hellgrammite

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                          • birtikidis
                            Hall of Famer
                            • May 2008
                            • 4628

                            #14
                            Re: Steelers | Not expected to tender offer to Stapleton

                            Originally posted by Oviedo
                            Originally posted by MaxAMillion
                            This tells me that the Steelers must be banking on drafting a center in this draft. I don't believe they are banking solely on Legursky being the starter in 2011. Hopefully that means my man Pouncey is coming.
                            You will be very disappointed with Pouncey. There is a reason he refused to lift at the combine. he is weak in comparison to the other Centers and will get eaten alive in the AFC North.
                            Ummm have you ever lifted with pouncey?

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                            • stlrz d
                              Legend
                              • May 2008
                              • 9244

                              #15
                              Re: Steelers | Not expected to tender offer to Stapleton

                              Originally posted by Mister Pittsburgh
                              Originally posted by phillyesq
                              According to a few of the reports I read, Stapelton is expected to generate interest as a FA. If the Steelers could get a 7th for Sean Mahan, I'd like to think that Stapelton would be able to bring back a late round draft choice. After all, he is young, and he started for a SB winner. That should count for something, IMO.
                              We didn't trade Joey Porter. He could of landed us a very high draft pick.
                              Not necessarily. You can't trade without a partner. If no one was willing to take on his salary then forget about it.

                              This part isn't just directed at you because there are a few others here who do this too, and it drives me nucking futs: it's either "could have" or "could've" but never, ever, ever "could of".

                              Sorry...I just can't take that anymore...it makes me crazy to read "could of".

                              [url=http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/couldof.html]click me![/url]

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