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But that's how the contract the Steelers offered to Bell looked and that's part of what ticked him off.
Yep. This. I don't think anybody is tricking him if he went public last time with his dissatisfaction over the "guaranteed" money.
I'm no lawyer and have no inside info but i'd expect an agent in this situation to pitch it as "we need bell to reset the market for running backs before we get you the most money we can"
Right it's the contract Steelers offered and people held up the Gurley contract so they could cite it as Steelers being cheap but I don't agree with your "tricking" him terminology.
As much as i like kirwan, there's no question he's pro management on a lot of these things, so that wouldn't surprise me at all.
Remember reading how Tom Brady & Jimmy Garroppollo had the same agent...and thinking that could only help TB12.
I'm going off memory here so I could be wrong, but I believe the issue with the Steelers' contract was that it wasn't guaranteed into year 2, not year 3. And other FAs from that year mostly had their contract guaranteed through year 2 (at least the ones I looked up quickly at the time, which included Jarvis Landry among a few others).
I don't want to beat a dead horse but his contract was going to pay him $33M in first two years and nothing other then death was going to keep him from getting that money. That second year is inherently guaranteed because the teams can't afford to cut you.
Tonight and apparently they’re getting rather antsy about it considering how many times they’ve been burned including Barr today.
Coleman gets to pick his own agent... I guess the Jets could leverage this relationship by telling Bell's agent they are interested in Coleman instead, lol.
Last year they offered him 14.5 a year for 4 years. The year before it was 13 a year for 4 years.
What do you think now that Baker is the one with the mega-elite WR?JoeSteeler said:
I think he’s going to announce it with the release of his albumI think he’s going to announce it with the release of his album
Plus with the Raiders moving to Vegas next year they could structure the contract where he takes a little less money this year so he gets more next year in Vegas with no state taxes. So lets say he takes 10% less to go to the Raiders is he really losing out that much considering the high taxes in New York.LawFitz said:
LOL.
The guaranteed money is the key here, it pretty much has to be but we don't know how much the Steelers proposed to him. Only thing we can be sure is he's sure to be one of the Top 3 RBs off the board.
Whelp, so I guess it was about the guaranteed cash + incentives. The other thing besides the Pittsburgh drama is no team was really breaking the bank here besides the Jets. Ravens shifted to Ingram, Browns got Hunt, Eagles according to reports were content to wait, Packers/Bears/Chiefs didn't need him; only the Raiders possibly could have paid for him and they are throwing cash at other areas.
You consider this a win? Bell has handled his NFL future like a batty old woman who keeps her fortune hidden in soup cans because she’s too afraid to invest. The safest approach is rarely the optimal one. Bell likely got himself a larger short term guarantee, but now he’s playing in a far less dominant offense and, by any financial / risk model I can create, has lower expected career earnings. That’s a strange way to “win”
You might need to work on creating some new models. Your missing the one where Pitt runs him into the ground on the last year of his deal
He had an absolute ton of unknowns and new territory to try and circumnavigate.
