No one is worth an unlimited amount, even Deebo.

McFadden is dead to me after this recent crap. I could care less if we resign him.

The reason that B-Mac is not back is that the Steelers don’t need him back right now, and it helps the Steeers at the end of the year.

 If Deshea and Gay do well enough, no need to rush B-Mac from injury, while this is true it does two things.

#1. Lowers B-Mac’s available asking price for the Steelers. Why should we pay him so much if he couldn’t beat out or hold off Deshea the last three years, whether due to injury or Deshea playing out of his mind?

#2. Lowers his exposure to other interested teams. If B-Mac is not on the field intercepting passes, or blowing up recievers teams like New England aren’t as apt to notice when they go to address their CB situation in the offseason.

I know a few people who have dealt with him on personal and business levels, and they have both told me the same thing, the guy is not very bright and does not think much for himself. Therefor it will likely be whatever his agent says. If he has an agent that wants the big bucks or an agent who wants his client happy and successful.

The reasons that James was cut from the Steelers had nothing to do with athletic ability, it was because it was so hard for him to understand the complicated defense. Tunch Ilkin said that Potsie told him that Deebo would throw his hands up in training camp and leave the field because he was so frustrated that he had no idea what he was doing.

Now will James leave a system that he understands, is successful in, and has worked so hard to get into in the first place, to maybe have to learn a new system again?

pretty much. hence the baddest dude in the nfl comment. I’m terrified thousands of miles away.

That makes me think of all the possibilities for telling Harrison tales. I think Chuck Norris has had his time in the sun. Pretty sure Deebo would break him in half.

We’ll see if they rework it this offseason, or if thats not necessary. Depends on what kind of advice he gets from the agent. He’s a hard guy to put a finger on personality wise, at least so say those closer to the team than me. This one could be interested and buck some of the trends we’ve seen with the team in the salary cap era.

All I want is for mcfadden to play out his friggin year here. “Oh I’m sorry, I can’t play the run, I don’t want to hurt my wittle arm because my agent told me not to.”

Agreed. Gay gives us leverage against BMac but BMac won’t care about the contract the steelers offer him unless it’s the one with the biggest dollar signs. And it won’t be.

The steelers have plenty of money to spend especially if they don’t sign BMac, and how often does a team spend big money on two corners? Ike is already rather well paid, and BMac seems to get injured (not saying it’s his fault). Our secondary performance without BMac has been surprising and quite good, and everyone should remember that Gay is in his 2nd year as opposed to 4th. Townsend is on the slide but we have some young guys that could come up and show enough upside. We played the patriots with Ike, Gay, Townsend, and Madison? The pats will say that their guys dropped balls, and I will say that it is harder in corners in inclement weather because they have to make their cuts in slop whereas the WRs know where they are going. It’d be great to have two lights out corners, but the defense can do very well without them.

I really don’t care to see McFadden on this team, but he is a damn fine player and if a deal can be done it would be great for our defense. We’ll have some money around and we’ll just have to see how it plays out, but the fact that a deal wasn’t done before is not good news for McFadden. His value will probably be low after this season, but I still think he looks elsewhere. I’m obviously biased though.

Someone is always willing to overpay for ex-steelers.