MrBrightside
Registered User
I just can't with this conversation. If it's somehow evidence that the Steelers over-prioritize defense because they re-signed Cam and Watt and Highsmith and Minkah, you're looking for an agenda to push. I personally think when you have really good players you should try to keep them, but maybe that's just me. What offensive player the last 5+ years has deserved big dollars? They did re-sign Johnson once, a move that most of the people who now bitch about them not spending money on offense criticized them for doing and were all in on trading him away. They signed two interior OL to mid-market deals. They apparently are trying to add Aiyuk and pay him top 5 WR money. Literally the only big ticket defensive free agent they've acquired basically since James Farrior was Queen and his addition clearly didn't prevent them from adding offense given their Aiyuk overtures. The offensive payroll is low because they don't have a QB making anything, and to this day no one has identified what QB they could/should have added at big dollars that would be better than Wilson or Fields. Cousins wasn't coming here. Who else?
If people want to bash Tomlin for being too conservative and hiring shitty coordinators and being a lousy game tactician, I'm all in on those criticisms. Blaming him for things he (and more to the point, that the GM's do and don't do), particularly when most of them actually make sense, just to push an agenda is nonsensical. They don't spend money on offense at the moment because they didn't draft offense for many years and when they started doing it, those guys either aren't worth being paid or aren't to the point in their careers to get paid.
If people want to bash Tomlin for being too conservative and hiring shitty coordinators and being a lousy game tactician, I'm all in on those criticisms. Blaming him for things he (and more to the point, that the GM's do and don't do), particularly when most of them actually make sense, just to push an agenda is nonsensical. They don't spend money on offense at the moment because they didn't draft offense for many years and when they started doing it, those guys either aren't worth being paid or aren't to the point in their careers to get paid.