Chuck Wagon

Interest is a one way street until proven otherwise. Agents are just using us.

Well, Cincy is the cheapest team in the league so they never pursue a FA anyone cares about. Cleveland has certainly gotten the same amount of flack as the Bills have but now with Baker they are everyone's new favorite team. Pittsburgh and Green Bay have been Super Bowl champs (semi) recently. The organization has put itself in position to be the butt of these jokes, bottom line. It doesn't mean some "writer" who makes $30k a year and lives off ramen while living in a friends garage in "beautiful" LA needs to be taking every cheap shot at the Bills.

Has being in the same division as the Pats taught you nothing. There's no such thing as a "running football team" in 2018. We have to build an offense capable of scoring 30 on anyone. Doing anything less is settling for mediocre at best.

We need both. Don't close off an avenue for improvement.

AB did not make a football choice. We all know it. That's why people are mad.

This. Beane saw a chance to acquire a true #1 WR and took it. Bills and Steelers had parameters of a deal in place. Steelers tell Rapaport. Bills reach out to Rosenhaus / AB to make sure all would be ok. Rosenhause / AB runs to Schefter to blow it up. Beane says "eff this" and walks. Twitter makes fun of the Bills, instead of AB or the Steelers, because that's what it does.

AB is about the brand of "AB". We could throw him 25 passes a game and he wouldn't care. He wants to be a star and we are Siberia in that regard.

I don't see any reason why a guy like AJ Green or Julio would have a problem coming here. But guys like AB and Odell are about making themselves bigger than the game and Buffalo is pretty much the hardest place in the league to do that.

But by the same token, he'll be given an actual chance to show he's the guy.

John Brown already said no last year. This changes nothing with how FAs view us. The view is the same as it's been for 2 decades. We are at the bottom of most every single FAs list unless we pay to be at the top.

As others have said, it's pretty apparent something is already rotten with the Steelers. AB didn't start this, Leveon was the first. Roethlisberger has a long standing reputation of not being the hardest working guy in the room, I think players saw how the organization handled Leveon vs how Roethlisberger gets treated and it's permeated the locker room. I do believe it's clear AB is at the point where it's more about him than the team. But this notion we can't handle any ego in the locker room and have to be a team of only blue collar guys is a sure way to go 5-11 every year.

If we can't handle one "diva" in the locker room, our locker room is already dead.

His trade value was/is at a nadir. Beane wouldn't have overpaid for anything. We very likely would have gotten a hell of a value on a guy who is still top ~5 at his position. But if you want to think this is some positive, by all means drink your kool aide.

There's zero cap benefit to them cutting him now and they needed to trade him before today to avoid the roster bonus. I think he just nuked his trade value. I don't think he plays a down of football in 2019.

He's signed through 2021. Roster spots are too valuable, but I'd love it if the Steelers just let him sit at home for the next 3 seasons and hit FA at 33, 3 years removed from the league.

He doesn't want to be traded, he wants to be released. He (and Rosenhaus) wants new money.

Most likely scenario was a deal was close if not done, the team went to Rosenhaus / AB and they ran to the media to nuke it.

This The Steelers have to be fuming. Their chances at a decent deal are gone. AB wants freedom and a new contract. I 100% think the same thing would have happened with the Redskins or Titans unless a trade came with a fat new contract. There's very little risk on the acquiring team if Brown is on his old deal, if he's a malcontent you can cut him with no cap hit. A new contract changes that. We just get heaped on because most of the media is unoriginal and will always take an easy pot shot joke about the Bills.

Cool

OBJ would blow it up too.

Bingo I 100% believe the narrative Brown wants a new contract on the team he picks. He's going to force the Steelers to release him. The Titans / Redskins smelled it out and pulled out before they let it get reported to the point of essentially Brown nixing an agreed upon trade. We got used by Rosenhaus / AB and now end up the butt of jokes throughout the entire league because of it, likely through no fault of our own.

No

Brown is a great player. He refused to come here and it wasn't about money. He's completely forgotten his roots, the fact he walked on at Central Michigan and entered the league in the 6th round is entirely irrelevant. He was just on the "Masked Singer", he's beginning to look at his steps beyond football and raising his profile for the next stage of his life, if he comes to Buffalo that's a profile killer. I strongly applaud Beane & McDermott for having the stones on pursing it. The aggressiveness is what's needed. But they can/should find out through back channels if it's a move AB would even entertain before putting as all out there with egg on our face.

He's 165 lbs and has a moron in his ear. Easy pass.

We badly overpaid Mario and he had no other contract in the ballpark. Hyde was another guy we overpaid (at the time) who ended up being a gem, he had fallen off the depth chart in Green Bay.