# Rothlisfucker deal **URL:** \ **Category:** PittSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [March 4, 2008, 7:24am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/rothlisfucker-deal/195883 "2008-03-04T07:24:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 42
**Author:** ![Hycomp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Hycomp](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Hycomp)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2008, 1:18pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/rothlisfucker-deal/195883/42 "2008-03-04T13:18:46Z")
> [@WTB Fast domestic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/wtb-fast-domestic/35258/12): > > How exactly do you “invest” in an offensive line in one year? What if the horses aren’t there? Should they just go out and sign a bunch of no names or someone they think can be a stop gap? Rome wasn’t built in a day. Well, for starters you don’t let one of the few good horses you actually have go. > [@WTB Fast domestic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/wtb-fast-domestic/35258/12): > > Signing professional athletes to contracts is a game of Russian Roulette. If you wait another year, and he has another monster year next year, his price tag increases exponentially. Then again, if he has a terrible year, you might wait another year to sign him, then he has a big year going into free agency and decides to sign elsewhere for gigantic money. This was a preemptive strike by the Steelers to lock up a top flight QB for what is widely considered (at least from what I have read on [si.com](http://si.com) and [espn.com](http://espn.com)) as a fair market value for his abilities. It’s definitely a gamble. However I don’t think any of the other big names mentioned as comparables have contracts up after this coming year and unless he had a some rediculous season this year (ala Manning and Brady TD record seasons) he could not realistically command money above what they are making. > [@WTB Fast domestic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/wtb-fast-domestic/35258/12): > > And how do you know whether or not the Steelers included any sort of dangerous activities clauses in his contract? Maybe they did? But, then again you obviously must have read the contract before it went off to the NFLPA and NFL offices for approval, so I won’t dare challenge your thought. Actually I believe they did include a clause directed toward at least some dangerous activities (as I heard mention without any real specifics). However unless the NFLPA has changed drastically the clause is much much milder than what I proposed (i.e., possibly forfeiting a portion of the signing bonus but still retaining past pay, along the lines of what Vick is on the hook to ATL). --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/rothlisfucker-deal/195883)._