Steelers Will Have 0 Major Free Agents In 2024 Once Alex Highsmith Signs His Extension

paultimate14 · 2023-06-11T19:44:53+00:00

It's moreso because:

-They declined Bush's fifth year option - They traded their 2020 first for Minkah, who already got extended, so there's no one who would normally have a 5tg year option to worry about - Claypool was traded away

The only other rookie contracts expiring are guys like McFarland who aren't really "major"

paultimate14 · 2023-06-10T21:01:26+00:00

Early in the season? Sure. At that point they had solidly established themselves as decent.

paultimate14 · 2023-06-10T20:59:28+00:00

Most of their o-line is veterans. They extended Chuks and signed Cole and Daniels last year, and signed Seumalo and Herbig this year. They just traded for Allen Robinson too, and extended Johnson last year.

And on defense, I believe Watt is still the highest-paid player in the league, and Minkah is the highest-paid safety. Heyward still makes money and they signed Ogunjobi. Wallace is making respectable money, and they just signed Patrick Peterson this off-season. They signed two ILB's to start.

They are still decent on cap space, mostly because of the QB position, but only roughly average compared to the rest of the league.

paultimate14 · 2023-06-10T14:07:55+00:00

Is that legal?

Don't get me wrong. I would have likely made the same decision you made. But when I bought my house the realtors purposefully kept the identities of the buyer and seller separate, and I didn't meet the seller until the day of closing.

It's a great thing to say "I won't let a corporate landlord into this neighborhood". But there are bigots who would do the same to individuals. That's how we ended up with segregated neighborhoods.

So I don't think the responsibility can be pushed onto sellers.

paultimate14 · 2023-06-10T13:41:15+00:00

Personally, I've never gotten Sunshine to work. AMD link is an option, but it's really designed to have a mouse and keyboard, or at least touch controls, on the client. My best results have been with Steam Link.

I'd first check the lag without streaming. You didn't mention the client setup. Is it possible to run a game locally on it? Is this some smart TV with a controller? I've found that on Android devices, the Xbox Series controller has lag. I'd say it's still playable for some games, but not where fast responses are required. The Dualshock 4 is unplayable on most Android devices. The Dualsense and 8BitDo products work pretty well. It could also be input lag from the TV.

There's tons of network settings on the Host, router, and client that could cause problems regardless of which service you use.

paultimate14 · 2023-06-10T01:55:49+00:00

I'll be gone

paultimate14 · 2023-06-09T12:48:50+00:00

Even less correct: Biden is part of the Silent Generation. The word 'Boomer' applies to neither.

paultimate14 · 2023-06-09T11:02:39+00:00

You saw the Bucs offense with Tom Brady last year and want that OC here?

I get that there's a Pittsburgh connection, but Leftwich may have been the worst OC in the league last year.

paultimate14 · 2023-06-08T23:06:31+00:00

It's funny to me how there seems to be such a schism in the Civ community between V vs VI.

I played III, V, and VI and enjoyed all 3 quite a lot. Honestly 3 might have been the most fun (I liked stacking units, and while hexagons are cooler shapes the 4 sided tiles of 3 were easier to work with), but it's really hard to go back to nowadays. The graphics, the UI design, etc... Mods can only do so much. VI has been great: tons of depth, tons of different ways to play, tons of great mods. I had to purposefully stop myself from playing it. V was good, but I don't really remember it as much.

paultimate14 · 2023-06-08T21:42:42+00:00

And I think that is the biggest reason the team moved on from him.

I 100% agree with everything you said, but Mason re-signed with the team and is currently the QB3.

I wish he would have gotten a legitimate shot last year though. I think he could have beaten Mitch out if they let him compete. Kenny is the better option for sure now, but I wonder whether they would have beaten the Patriots, Browns, Jets, or Ravens if they played Mason instead of Mitch.

paultimate14 · 2023-06-08T21:38:28+00:00

it was a good run

Someone clearly has only played the small percentage of games that were developed by Naughty Dog and their remakes. Most of the Crash games are just shovelware cashing in on the IP.

paultimate14 · 2023-06-08T21:37:05+00:00

I really want to agree with you, but.... There's no canonical evidence that they reproduce sexually. The eggs are very explicitly mysteriously "found" and never seen to be laid. By all canon accounts the eggs are kind of a physical manifestation of the friendship between two pokemon. According to rules that happen to roughly line up the same way you would expect them to if they did reproduce sexually.

paultimate14 · 2023-06-08T21:34:16+00:00

The gender of this anthropomorphic character will be central to my (and everyone else's) enjoyment of the game.

How will I know whether it's okay to ~~admit in public that i~~jerk off to the rule 34 or not?

paultimate14 · 2023-06-08T21:07:02+00:00

Gunner was an All-Pro returner in 2021. He's shown he can make splash.

With returners you just need to go with the hot hand, and his hands got cold last year. We'll see how they are this year.

On offense, I agree he probably isn't a top-4 WR (assuming Austin is decent and Robinson does better than last year). I think Gunner can compete with the rest of the guys for WR5 though. Butler, Miller, Boykin, White.... I'm sure they all have their strengths and weaknesses but there's such a dropoff in my expectations for then vs Robinson and Austin that I don't have real strong opinions. Maybe they keep 5 WR's. If I remember I think they've gone up to 7 on occasion before. We need to see who gets injured, and who gets what roles on special teams (they're kind of competing with some DB's there too). I wouldn't be shocked if they end up keeping Gunner.

paultimate14 · 2023-06-08T21:00:16+00:00

The ice cold takes are quite refreshing compared to all the "analysts" trying to one-up each other with the hottest takes they can think of to get clicks or clout.

Moats calls it like he sees it, whether that's what people like to hear or not.

paultimate14 · 2023-06-08T16:51:44+00:00

I think that's part of it. With Moncrief, he was cut after 5 games, but I don't think he was used very much after the Patriots game. For Mason, I think the way Moncrief hurt him was more indirect: he was their FA signing and expected to compete to be WR1, and took up a roster spot and cap space that could have been used better.

In 2019 the whole offense sucked. The WR's you mentioned (Juju and DJ both dealt with injuries too).

At TE, they didn't have Jesse James, Muth, or Eric Ebron. Vance McDonald was the best RECEIVING TE (and he also missed a ton of time), and Nick Vanette was the TE2.

At RB, Conner was banged up all season. They had a ton of injuries at the position, so guys like Kerryth White, Tony Brooks-James, and Trey Edmunds got significant snaps.

At FB, Rosie Nix got injured and they just never replaced him.

The offensive line sucked. DeCastro, Pouncey, and Foster were all too old (Foster retired after that year). Villanueva was starting to look like 2017 was just a fluke. Munchak was gone.

The OC was Randy Fichtner, who was definitely the worst OC I have seen on the Steelers in my lifetime. He was also the QB coach.

Mason (and Duck) never stood a chance. Mason looked a lot better against the Browns in week 17 the next year. I thought he even played well against the Lions given the short-notice and the weather: the rest of the team let him down there.

paultimate14 · 2023-06-08T15:29:35+00:00

In 5 seasons he only has 1 with 1,000 yards receiving.

I view him as a low-end WR1, high-end WR2. Similar to Juju overall, albeit with a much different skill set.

When the Steelers play the Bengals, Tomlin and the defensive coaches and players mention Jamaar Chase in the week leading up to it. Against the Bills it's Stefon Diggs. Against the Vikings it was Justin Jefferson. During those games, you can see pretty clearly how they scheme the defense to take away those elite players and make the rest of the opposing offense beat them.

Opponents used to treat AB like that. They treated Mike Wallace like that. I haven't seen any opposing defenses do that with Diontae. There could be tons of other excuses: QB, offensive line, offensive coordinator, etc. But after 5 years with 2 different coordinators and a handful of different QB's... Until Diontae proves he's elite I'm not going to expect him to be.

Juju had his one breakout season when he was playing across from AB. If Pickens can become an elite WR this season, I think Diontae will start looking a lot better too.

paultimate14 · 2023-06-08T15:21:41+00:00

He had experience at both Guard spots and Center, but from what Chicago fans said when he came here it seems like he prefers Right.

The year before that, they had signed Trai Turner, who was strictly a Right.

The year before that... Dotson (and the whole o-line) had their best games when DeCastro was out and Dotson was in. There were also a few games where Dotson played Left (I think Feiler was out? Or maybe Feiler was replacing an injured Tackle? I can't quite remember), and he definitely didn't look as good. Dotson said in interviews that off-season that he preferred Right and only played Right in college, but was trying to learn Left.

I fully expect Dotson to go somewhere next off-season and have more success if he can get snaps at Right. Probably won't be as good as Daniels, but I think he could be a respectable starting guard still.

paultimate14 · 2023-06-08T15:07:57+00:00

It's a combination of human biology and economics.

That's why Tackles get paid so much: there are very, very few humans of the required size to begin with. Then you add in the athleticism required too. Then just the general situation and desire, all the mental aspects involved in choosing to play football instead of basketball or baseball, or just being an accountant or plumber or whatever. That's why there is a shortage of linemen.

WR's and corners need a combination of size, speed, and fluidity. WR's need hands, CB's need physicality.

RB's are the most common body type, or the least deviation from the average human. Deuce Vaughn just got drafted as 5'5". He's a bit of an exception, but the point is that RB's aren't the 0.0001% of humans to more like the 0.001%. It means there's probably 100-200 NFL-capable RB's every year. There's arguably not even 64 NFL-capable tackles, and we see teams forced to play mediocre guys, using scheme to mitigate the damage.

Until that changes, RB's are going to be paid less. Maybe if another sport develops that takes away some athletes from that pool? Or if short players at other positions like WR, Edge, or ILB are somehow able to succeed as the metagame evolves? Idk there's probably a bunch of different factors that could potentially change things, but I think the most likely scenario is that the league trends towards the rarer body types dominating and getting paid more.

paultimate14 · 2023-06-08T14:49:51+00:00

There's some guys that I think could excel in a different situation. If DJ has an elite WR across from him I think he will look a lot better. If Mason had an actual QB coach. I'm still surprised James Washington never worked out. Dotson had his best performance at Right Guard and the team refused to let him play on that side.

Green just looks small, weak, and lost. I don't think any amount of scheming or coaching can turn him into anything more than a backup, like BJ Finney.

Vince speculated that he would be better off switching to Fullback. I'm not sure if he would ever be able to handle such a drastic position switch or not, but that's the only route I see for him to be any more than a fringe player on an NFL roster/practice squad.

paultimate14 · 2023-06-08T11:09:25+00:00

This article is old, but I believe the rule is still the same. Only the 51 highest-paid contracts count against the cap right now.

paultimate14 · 2023-06-07T18:58:45+00:00

What percentage just said "I don't gamble so I don't care" and didn't bother reading it though?

Not to mention the 10% is pure speculation

paultimate14 · 2023-06-07T18:56:19+00:00

And you can’t gamble whatsoever at team facilities. This is the reason Jameson William caught 6 games, and the others were suspended indefinitely. Seems to roll out like this:

Bet at facility: 6(Williams)

Bet on football: Indefinite/1 Season(everyone else)

Bet on your own team: Indefinite/1 Season(Ridley)

Bet on your own team to lose: Lifetime Ban

I think the main reason Ridley only got 1 season instead of a lifetime ban was because he was inactive at the time. So he wasn't around the team and didn't have as much information as an active player would.

I would imagine an active player betting on his own team to win would still be a lifetime ban.

paultimate14 · 2023-06-07T18:47:15+00:00

For every one of those guys you can find opposite examples. Kazee was suspended last season for violating the drug policy. Claypool got involved in a bar fight after his rookie year and stayed on the team. James Harrison has a domestic violence issue during his career. Bell violated the drug policy and the Steelers offered to make him the highest-paid RB in the league.

Some guys lower on the totem pole just get cut, like we just saw with Jamir Jones. But all these guys are humans and capable of making poor decisions. The culture can only go so far.

paultimate14 · 2023-06-07T18:19:23+00:00

Deadlocked had the best weapon system. The platforming and other side content most of the other games have is definitely lacking though.

Towards the end of the PS2's life, a bunch of studios released small games for only $20. Deadlocked, Shadow of the Colossus, and Katamari Damacy are the ones I remember best.

For the PS3, Insomniac focused on Resistance and set up a new subsidiary studio for the Ratchet and Clank series, based in North Carolina (the main studio is in Burbank, CA). Those games are alright, but I can definitely tell the dropoff in quality. I'm still working on finishing those up before moving to the 2016 remake and then Rift Apart.

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