Center Austin Reiter in for visit

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(07-26-2021, 04:40 PM)mikey6866 Wrote: why would career earning matter at all?  A low ball offer is still a low ball offer.  Why would bates or whitworth or any other player take tens of millions less than what their worth for "loyalty".  Loyalty only enters the equation when your comparing 2 similar deals.  We didnt offer Whit in the same ball park.  It doesnt matter if i made 5 million or 500 million Im still not going to just take half of what im worth out of loyalty.  Nobody would.  If the bengals offer was within a few million of the rams whitworth would have been retiring as a bengal.  He left because he was potentially leaving tens of millions on table if he didnt take rams offer.  I dont care who you are, nobody is leaving that kind of money on the table for "loyalty".

Polamalu retired for a multitude of reasons and creating cap space wasnt one of them.  The steelers forced him into retirement basically because he didnt want to be released and play anywhere else.  Its pretty widely known Polamalu was very upset with how steelers handled it.  He didnt want to retire but he had no interest playing for anybody else and his choices were retire now or we are releasing you.  He chose to retire.  He certainly didnt care about the steelers salary cap when he did it.

Bates hasn't made set for life money yet.  Whit was long past that threshold when he left.

Your logic is one way to look at things, but that's not loyalty.  If you go to singles bars every Friday night, are you still loyal if you only hook up with chicks that are significantly hotter than your girl?  

The Steelers pressured Polamalu to retire because if he had been cut the acceleration of his bonus money would have eaten a ton of the cap savings.   He was well within his rights to tell them to cut him so he could sign elsewhere (he was worth a lot more than $0), but instead retired because he didn't want to play anywhere else.  He wasn't happy about it, but he was loyal to the Steelers.