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Making Financial Sense of Le’Veon Bell Decision

Le’Veon Bell is the first franchise player to sit out a full season since Kansas City Chiefs defensive end Dan Williams 20 years ago because he declined to sign his franchise tender with the Pittsburgh Steelers before 4 pm eastern time on Tuesday. By missing this deadline, Bell is ineligible to play for the rest of the 2018 season. Pittsburgh and Bell’s inability to reach an agreement prior to the mid-July deadline for franchise players to sign long term deals was a catalyst for this result.

Bell rejected a five-year deal in the $14 million to $15 million per year range containing a $10 million signing bonus and a $10 roster bonus due shortly after signing according to various reports. Slightly over $33 million of the money was in the first two years. The three year cash flow was $45 million to $47 million.

 

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Steelers Getting Vintage Play by Ben Roethlisberger

Ben Roethlisberger put on a show in front of a national audience as the Steelers dismantled Carolina 52-21 in Week 10. Roethlisberger threw just three incompletions while racking up 328 yards through the air and five touchdowns. Any time you throw more touchdowns than incompletions that is a pretty good day at the office. It was clearly one of the best performances in Roethlisberger’s Hall of Fame career.

Roethlisberger has always been a supreme talent. He is one of the best passers of the football in the history of the game. Clearly, he is a big, strong quarterback and has an outstanding career highlight tape of extended plays with sheer physicality that leads to playmaking that most quarterbacks just wouldn’t have even attempted.

But as Roethlisberger aged, the Steelers realized that he had to change his style of play. Bruce Arians is an excellent offensive coordinator, but his scheme puts his quarterback in jeopardy. Just ask Carson Palmer and Andrew Luck. Arians loves to push the ball deep downfield and therefore, in his longer developing passing plays, his quarterback takes a lot of hits. You mix that scheme with Roethlisberger’s nature of extending plays and what was a much lesser offensive line back then and it is easy to see why the Steelers organization would be concerned for his long-term prognosis.

 

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Panthers-Steelers Could Be QB Show

Carolina at Pittsburgh

Spread: Steelers -4

When Carolina Has The Ball: Few seem to realize it, but the Panthers have one of the NFL’s truly elite offenses. It is littered with versatile explosive playmakers and Cam Newton is playing great football. Norv Turner deserves a lot of credit for Carolina’s success and this is a very difficult unit to prepare for, especially on a very short week. However, over the last four games, Pittsburgh’s defense has really stepped up and is playing very solid football against the run and pass. You will see a lot of RPOs, read option, pre-snap movement and misdirection from this offense. And Newton has been outstanding off play action. Overall, Newton has been making big plays without leaving many plays on the field. That efficiency makes him extremely dangerous.

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Eagles and Steelers Among Teams That Make Sense for CB Patrick Peterson

A surprising name and contract may be hitting the trade market.

The Arizona Cardinals are open to trading seven-time Pro Bowl cornerback Patrick Peterson according to CBS Sports Insider Jason LaCanfora. The trading deadline is 4 pm eastern time on October 30.

First-year head coach Steve Wilks characterized the trade rumors as ludicrous while addressing the media after Sunday’s 27-17 loss to Minnesota Vikings. A slow start to the season has led to speculation that 1-5 Cardinals will attempt to acquire draft picks to rebuild around rookie quarterback Josh Rosen, who recently replaced Sam Bradford in the starting lineup. Safety Deone Bucannon and linebacker Haason Reddick, the 13th overall pick in the 2017 NFL draft, reportedly are also available because they aren’t considered good fits in Wilks’ 4-3 defensive scheme.

Peterson is no longer customarily tracking the opposition’s best wide receiver regardless of where he lines up in Wilks’ more zone oriented system. He was named to Pro Football Focus’ First Quarter All-Pro Team because of his quick adaptation to the scheme change while continuing to perform at an elite level.

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There is Clear Threat in AFC to Patriots and Chiefs

The Patriots narrow Sunday Night victory over Kansas City in Foxboro was one for the ages. These look like the clear top two teams in an AFC Conference that looks far more respectable now than it did to open the season. It may even be the superior conference right now.

If we put New England and Kansas City in the top tier of AFC franchises right now and at this point, that is a safe assumption to make, which franchise or franchises belong right behind the Patriots and Chiefs?

Unlike in the NFC, the second tier in the AFC looks just as clear as tier one. Four teams make up this group: Baltimore, Cincinnati, Los Angeles and Pittsburgh.

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