PITTSBURGH, PA. — Well playas…it’s Week 7 of the NFL season and the Pittsburgh Steelers still haven’t heard from running back Le’Veon Bell. They’re on their bye week this week and will be off from Thursday through Sunday and they’ve got Cleveland at the crib next week.
Bell told boyz earlier this month over at ESPN that he would show up during the Week 7-8 time frame but nobody’s heard from him yet. He’s already jerked away $853K per week by not showing up so far. That’s a total of $5,971,000! What kind of sense does that make?
They offered ole boy $14.5 million on a franchise tag before the season started and he whiffed at it because he wants a long term deal. Now I can understand him wanting a long term deal but he’s eligible to become a free agent next year, only if he shows up by Week 10 this year to make this year count.
So therefore, he’s got to play this year if he wants to sniff a bag next season. So again, what sense does it make not to take the $14.5 million that was sitting on the table this year and then grab the bag waiting for him next year too?
Let’s keep it real or all the way 100, whichever comes 1st! His agent is giving him terrible advice bruh. He’s screaming about preserving his body so that he can get the long term deal next year but he’s got to show up and play at some point this season to even be eligible for next year’s bag.
He’s in NO game shape right now because he hasn’t played all season. I don’t care what he’s been doing at home he’s in no game shape. Being in shape and being in game shape are two different things. Therefore, showing up in Week 8, 9 or 10 he’ll be susceptible to crazy injury because everybody else is 8, 9 or 10 weeks ahead of him. Now what happens if he gets hurts? NOBODY is going to sign him to a long term deal and he misses out on the bag from this season and those going forward.
And please don’t run that foolishness to me that he’s got bread already because according to a Sports Illustrated article written March of 2009 entitled “How and (Why) Athletes Go Broke.” By the time they have been retired for two years, 78% of former NFL players have gone bankrupt or are under financial stress because of joblessness or divorce. Go read it for yourself playa if you think I’m lyin’. There isn’t an athlete in the NFL that can afford to turn his nose up at $14.5 million that he’s already earned. Not a one.
He’s listening to a cat that’s only thinking about the money that he’s (the agent) is going to get. The agent isn’t the one that has to play the games. The agent doesn’t have to show up and play whenever you decide to show up. The Steelers aren’t going bring Le’Veon Bell in slowly. They’re going to throw him out there Day 1 he shows up with everybody moving 100mph so he’d better be ready. And guess what playa, he puts his body at major risk when he does. Stop me when I start lyin’!