“I think we’ve been upfront with Ben in letting him know we couldn’t have him back under his current contract,” said Steelers team president, Art Rooney II, in his annual end-of-season talk with the media on Thursday.
Rooney, of course, was talking about veteran quarterback Ben Roethlisberger and his $41 million cap hit for 2021.
Yikes, just reading that statement from Rooney gives me flashbacks to the few times I’ve heard “We need to talk” during the course of my adult life—that rarely ends well.
But sometimes it does and a love-affair can continue.