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Peat

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xlm34 said:
It seems like that very well may be the case but it also seems like a good way to lose top tier players.
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Always paying top tier players what they want is also, in the long run, a good way to lose them when you realise you can't pay them all. Arguably that's what happening right now. Sooner or later the cap introduces no-win scenarios for all successful teams.

There is an interesting contrast between SF's long protracted fights on this and, say, Kansas moving on very quickly from Tyreek Hill and Sneed when they decided they couldn't pay them. We'll see how this ends but I think Kansas look smarter. Even when the 49ers have kept the players, they've had so-so first seasons on the new contract from protracted hold outs.
 
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Pay him and trade him later if you can’t afford him seems prudent, but I guess there’s a line to be drawn in the sand as @Peat says.

Aiyuk saw all his teammates get market reset money so I guess he wants that.

Khan is doing this correctly though. You have a price you will pay, tell 49ers to come back to us if it works. If not we will move on.
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Pay Aiyuk, trade Deebo next offseason, and try to win with both of them this year is what I’d do but I dunno. I don’t think they really know what they want right now either.
 
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Pay Aiyuk, trade Deebo next offseason, and try to win with both of them this year is what I’d do but I dunno. I don’t think they really know what they want right now either.
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Especially with the constant injuries persall the 1st rookie wr
 

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CheckingLineCenter said:
Pay him and trade him later if you can’t afford him seems prudent, but I guess there’s a line to be drawn in the sand as @Peat says.

Aiyuk saw all his teammates get market reset money so I guess he wants that.

Khan is doing this correctly though. You have a price you will pay, tell 49ers to come back to us if it works. If not we will move on.
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Iirc, the way most big NFL contracts are structured, sign then trade is just a no-go due to the dead money hits.

Idk. If I was the 49ers, then I'd have not deviated after not selling him at the draft. My message to Aiyuk would be you can play for the 49ers next season or you can not play. But now that we've got this far, that's clearly not a good idea to go back to (although I'd still be real tempted by it after he turned down the Pats offer). But I'm sure they thought they wouldn't either.

Actually, now I think about it, I'm curious what's happened in the last couple days since it sounded like there was no deal between the Steelers and 49ers forever, and now there is. I wonder what changed there.

(edit - I also think if I was an NFL GM, my rule with all but the most ridiculous of talent would be either you sign by the draft or we wish you good luck at your new home. The other way doesn't seem worth it).
 
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Coastal Kev said:
The Steelers should offer a 2nd for Pearsall.
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Here's a better idea, Khan gives them a drop dead date to get it done or we just tell them to F off! This is stupid at this point! Somebody deserves to experience a lot of suffering as a result of this! They're playing with ppl and it's morally reprehensible!

Either do it today OR let Frisco and that miserable community experience the worst earthquake in human history! Either way I win!
 

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Ryder71 said:
That was like two months. This is over six months now! This is absurdly and mind-numbingly silly at this point!
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Brandon Aiyuk is a Steeler, it just hasn't been officially announced yet. Just prepare your apology for being wrong all this time when it is.
 
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Mr Jeff Jimerson said:
Brandon Aiyuk is a Steeler, it just hasn't been officially announced yet. Just prepare your apology for being wrong all this time when it is.
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Apology for what exactly?

And if he is a Steeler why hasn't it gone public yet? What's the hold up?
 
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Ryder71 said:
Here's a better idea, Khan gives them a drop dead date to get it done or we just tell them to F off! This is stupid at this point! Somebody deserves to experience a lot of suffering as a result of this! They're playing with ppl and it's morally reprehensible!

Either do it today OR let Frisco and that miserable community experience the worst earthquake in human history! Either way I win!
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"Morally reprehensible" is a bit of a stretch :laugh:. I agree that this situation is taking too long, but that's not really the Steelers fault. This is a 49ers/Aiyuk standoff.
 
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WickedWrister said:
"Morally reprehensible" is a bit of a stretch :laugh:. I agree that this situation is taking too long, but that's not really the Steelers fault. This is a 49ers/Aiyuk standoff.
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If the Steelers permit the 49ers to continue this idiocy with no end in sight they're complicit!

Again 6 months of this nonsense!
 
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WickedWrister said:
Murder is morally reprehensible, dragging your feet in a trade is... poor business etiquette?
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No, it's morally reprehensible!

There's a lot of individuals affected by this beyond Aiyuk the 49ers and the Steelers. So, do it or move on. Lots of ppl are suffering, and it didn't have to be this way.

They're all scum buckets, vile individuals

#worstoftheworst!
 
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FYI: Nothing has changed since last week as far as Steelers are concerned regarding Aiyuk trade. Just waiting to see if 49ers are going to re-sign him or deal him. NO Steelers players involved
 
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Ryder71 said:
Here's a better idea, Khan gives them a drop dead date to get it done or we just tell them to F off! This is stupid at this point! Somebody deserves to experience a lot of suffering as a result of this! They're playing with ppl and it's morally reprehensible!

Either do it today OR let Frisco and that miserable community experience the worst earthquake in human history! Either way I win!
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I get that you're tired of it, but I bet that the longer it goes the more in favor it goes to the Steelers leverage.
 
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