Originally posted by NYniner85:
Originally posted by BOI49er:
If someone tells you they want to leave, and you turn them around with money, they still want to leave, and will still be looking for an acceptable way of doing that. We're still open to trading him, so let's not be surprised if that feeling is mutual.
Lol wut? He had a chance to leave AND get paid. He chose not to. This was all about getting paid as much money as possible because it's a sport where you can tear your knee apart at any moment…as you can see. Fans get all emotional and butthurt over a player getting emotional over his $$. Talk about hypocrisy lol.
Who give a rip what TJ Houshyourmomma says about Brock? From everything I remember BA has said nothing but great things about Brock.
Originally posted by Chance:
Originally posted by NYniner85:
Originally posted by BOI49er:
If someone tells you they want to leave, and you turn them around with money, they still want to leave, and will still be looking for an acceptable way of doing that. We're still open to trading him, so let's not be surprised if that feeling is mutual.
Lol wut? He had a chance to leave AND get paid. He chose not to. This was all about getting paid as much money as possible because it's a sport where you can tear your knee apart at any moment…as you can see. Fans get all emotional and butthurt over a player getting emotional over his $$. Talk about hypocrisy lol.
Who give a rip what TJ Houshyourmomma says about Brock? From everything I remember BA has said nothing but great things about Brock.
Aiyuk had a career year with Brock that netted him 30m/year, and much of Brock's contract was due to playas like Aiyuk out there balling. Safe to say that both Brock and Aiyuk appreciate each other.
I agree with that. It was suggested that Pittsburgh was offering $27m. We went higher than we wanted to $30m, I think just to match, because Pennsylvania's flat rate income tax is 3.07 percent, and California's top rate is 13.3 percent, for a difference of more than 10%, so in round numbers, that's a wash. I'm of the opinion that that trade fell apart because Pittsburgh wasn't offering the team fair value.
Since John York landed, we've gotten away from paying anything to keep the window open. If this happened first, I don't think we'd have made this deal. I didn't like it at the time, but whatever. There is no chance we'd make this deal now with the hindsight of BA's performance the first 7 games, his injury, and his uncertain performance post injury. We are saying we are still open to trading him. We'll see if we get our money's worth. I doubt it.
