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Officially 3-peat with win on Sunday!


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If this team stays healthy and we can retain Short-Norman....we can be even better in 2016. Our window seems bigger than SF and Seattles. A slow burn on the NFC south as champs...4 in a row?

All we need next season is a nickel corner, DE depth and prob a WR ..just bc but almost all would be added as depth. 

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22 minutes ago, TANTRIC-NINJA said:

If this team stays healthy and we can retain Short-Norman....we can be even better in 2016. Our window seems bigger than SF and Seattles. A slow burn on the NFC south as champs...4 in a row?

All we need next season is a nickel corner, DE depth and prob a WR ..just bc but almost all would be added as depth. 

Norman is really the only FA we have next season. Everyone else is under contract minus a few third stringers nobody will miss. And we can franchise tag Norman and still have plenty of cap space afterwards.

WR may not even be a big need next year if Funchess continues to progress and of course Benjamin is coming back. DE depth? Charles Johnson, Jared Allen, Ealy, Addison, Delaire are all under contract.

We really are set up great for the future. Not only the talent on the roster but DG has us in great shape cap wise as well.

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2 hours ago, Kuechly59 said:

If the failclowns lose the early game we will have clinched it before we even play next week.

Yep.  Pulling for Delo to put away the other birds tonight so we can go ahead and clinch playoffs as well.  At least that way he can also walk off that field victorious this year as well.

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11 minutes ago, Skydivingcows said:

Yep.  Pulling for Delo to put away the other birds tonight so we can go ahead and clinch playoffs as well.  At least that way he can also walk off that field victorious this year as well.

We'll unfortunately the Steelers D isn't as good as it used to be...

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47 minutes ago, R0CKnR0LLA said:

Norman is really the only FA we have next season. Everyone else is under contract minus a few third stringers nobody will miss. And we can franchise tag Norman and still have plenty of cap space afterwards.

WR may not even be a big need next year if Funchess continues to progress and of course Benjamin is coming back. DE depth? Charles Johnson, Jared Allen, Ealy, Addison, Delaire are all under contract.

We really are set up great for the future. Not only the talent on the roster but DG has us in great shape cap wise as well.

If we pay for Norman I would look for CJ to either be gone or he accepts an extention that pays him a lot less. He is under contract but it is not guaranteed and is huge. 

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8 minutes ago, TANTRIC-NINJA said:

If we pay for Norman I would look for CJ to either be gone or he accepts an extention that pays him a lot less. He is under contract but it is not guaranteed and is huge. 

CJ and Allen will both probably have to take paycuts to stay next year, but we're in good shape cap wise so we won't be forced into it. There's at least some options and flexibility. If we were 20 million over the cap like when DG first took over it'd be a different situation.

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