Quote (Flopps @ Apr 29 2018 08:25pm)
thoughts on bell?
conner/ridley could be studs in pittsburgh
conner already proved he can play well
At this point, we need to just move on from him. He's delusional for thinking he should be paid the combined salary of a WR1 + RB1. That's not how the cap works. I was really hoping we'd go get a guy like Dion Lewis in FA or draft a RB in the early rounds (Michel/Guice/Chubb). That way we'd have a solid backup plan. Instead we hamstrung ourselves by relying on Conner (coming off of injury), Ridley (hasn't produced in years), and Touissant (career roster bubble guy). We added Samuels, but I don't see him as a workhorse back.
We would be INSANE to pay bell over 14 mill annually unless none of it is guaranteed. 3 of the final 4 teams in the playoffs last year used committee approaches at RB and paid their committees less $ than bell wants by himself. His production has declined in each of the past 2 years. He's getting older and has taken a massive workload which wears rbs down.