Bernard is the 13th Highest Paid Back in the NFL and has ...

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(09-17-2019, 09:59 AM)TJHoushmandzadeh Wrote: I think they extended him because of his character.

There's been a concerted push this year to sign character in order to establish the right culture.

I'm sure the same people complaining about this approach will be the ones complaining about the meltdown at the end of the Stealers play-off game and how Burfict and Pacman should never have played again.

This year we saw character being a big theme in the draft: Jonah Williams, Drew Sample, Pratt, Finley all being lauded as high character guys. I think they want to establish the right leaders around people like Joe Mixon and next year's draft picks.

High character guys are great. It's just, they paid him as a Top 13 back. There had to be a happy medium somewhere on dollars.

I feel like they signed him as insurance in case Mixon holds out with the Elliott and Gordon holdouts. ie Reactionary move. And they didn't want to waste time negotiating so they offered him a big contract.