Peat
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He’s trying to hold the organization hostage over it too…they absolutely should not resign him for another two years at his age…disappointing…he’s being paid $16M this season at his age and that’s a good coin
He's being paid more than that, he gets 22.4m for this season.
But that's kind of besides the point. Him sitting out OTAs is a pretty milquetoast form of hostage taking. It's pretty common. I'm not going to get up in arms about him doing it.
That commenter has such "My Uncle works at Nintendo vibes." I can't take seriously anyone who's source is basically "Trust me, I heard it" and their absolute complete bias against someone screaming through their narrative to the point they can't even call Tomlin by name.
On the one hand, yeah - although isn't pretty much everybody's source on these sorts of things, trust me, I heard it? It's not like Kaboly or Dulac or whoever are producing transcripts or audio recordings to back up their stuff like "Rudolph u-turned when he heard about Wilson".
On the other... it just sounds credible to me. I'm not saying it's what happened, but I'd be completely unshocked if someone produced hard evidence that it did.
Not to mention, most of it is corroborated by the team's public statements and beat reporters. We know the Steelers dramatically changed their tune on Pickett and Rudolph because we heard them do it. Their initial quotes on Johnson and their later actions don't exactly match up either. We've been told Heyward was internally pro-Wilson. We've been told the Steelers promised Wilson the starter's role, although that's been refused, and we know he's been put in pole position for it in an org where pole position rarely loses. And obviously we know Pickett and Rudolph chose to be elsewhere.
In fact the only part of it's that new is the idea that Heyward said "make changes or I go". Which, yeah, sounds plausible enough.
Tbh, I mainly threw it out there because I thought it'd be fun to post the completely unsubstantiated rumour posted in the very sensationalistic way... but looking closer, 80% of it is the story we've already heard.