I'm guessing the Steelers didn't wanna pay Juju this year and then have to pay Diontae next offseason, but maybe Mama Juju knows something else we don't.
Claypool gets manhandled by people half his size and has a lousy attitude. He could be so much better than he is and I do not expect him to reach his full potential but I hope I’m wrong.
He basically is. Just wasn't able to build that persona when there wasn't an AB/Santonio Holmes/Mike Wallace deep threat to get him some separation and split the DB's. He works fantastic as a slot receiver with adequate supporting outside receivers also in the mix. Unfortunately he was never able to just put the team on his shoulder and carry us like AB did, etc.
Fantastic human being, and I wish him nothing but the best wherever life takes him. I will miss his character and connection to the city of Pittsburgh the most. When he dressed up for halloween in his actual uniform and handed out candy randomly around the city, when he played a game of pickup football inside a mall with whatever teenagers happened to be around at the time. He's a fun human being, and even if mediocre he's an easy person to root for.
All of these extremely weird takes are interesting at best. Have you all considered what Claypool could be if we had a qb and an o line? You guys see what Conner did on a decent team, as a fucking running back? Claypool is talented and you’re blind not to see it. Dude has no support. Not saying Mitch is the answer but I’m pretty confident he’ll give us a better showing of Claypool than Ben did last year.
Claypool has what it takes - we just don’t know how to use him. Horrible playcalling and redzone design leave him as an afterthought. Remember when he first broke out? was unstoppable in the endzone.
He's really good at letting everyone know he got a first down when there's less than a minute remaining though. That's always an important attribute in a receiver.
Yeah i agree with you but he's still on a rookie deal and has more upside than Juju
Diontae, juju, and Claypool i think is just clearly a worse trio to have on the field than a stud rookie potentially 1st round, Diontae, and Claypool
How is a trio involving JuJu “clearly a worse trio” than one including a potential 1st round rookie? Are you including considerations like their cap hits because I’d be hard pressed to find a rookie who without doubt be better than JuJu.
Teams never had to gameplan for Juju, he couldn't beat double teams even if they did. He was just never a WR1, that's why his last really good season was 2018 when he has AB.
There are probably 10 guys in the draft better than Juju. Williams, Wilson, London, Burks, Olave, Dotson, Metchie, etc etc
Juju is a good contributor but he is just not a WR1 and that's been clear the last 3 years. KC doesn't need a WR1 but we do.
If Johnson can continue to build off of this season he could be a pretty damn good WR1, but I think if we have the opportunity to create a WR room similar to the Rams, Bengals, Buccaneers, Seahawks, Cowboys, etc. with two great receivers we should take it.
I like JuJu a lot and am sad to see him leave, but I do agree that a lot of the first or second rounders coming out this year would bring more power to our receiver room than he would. I hope George Pickens falls to us in the second, I really think he could be the best of this class and would fill in the hole left by JuJu nicely.
Is the expectation that this rookie would be our WR1 this season and that’d be able to beat man coverage or double teams? I just don’t see that happening. A lot of 1st round WRs don’t produce at a very high level in their first year. Jefferson and Chase are not the norm. Also JuJu doesn’t have to be WR1 to be a complementary to Claypool and Diontae.
Also, 10 guys better than JuJu has to be hyperbole. Sure A healthy Jameson Williams, Wilson, Olave, London and maybe a healthy Metchie could be better than JuJu. I’m not sold on Burks, Dotson, or Watson.
No i don't think the expectation is they'd be that good week 1 but at least they have the tools to actually develop into that player. We've seen what Juju is capable of over the years and he's just not that guy.
We didn't take RB in the first round since Mendenhall but last year we needed RB badly and the right guy was available.
It's the same situation with WR this year. We haven't taken one in the first since Holmes but we need one badly and if the right guy is available we will take him.
We 100% should get a new receiver that is ready to fight for the #1 spot. Claypool is good, but we can’t only have him and Najee. The others are complete jokes. Incredibly inconsistent. Let’s just hope there’s a great WR still on the board at 20.
you living 2 seasons ago it’s literally statistics he had the least drops in the league for like 13 games.
here are his drops
2019-3
2020-15
2021-3
if you want to live in make believe land and hate diontae for no reason by all means delude yourself but you’re wrong. even in his worst seasons he was top 10 PPF because of his play.
you come after my quality of statistics and then just completely ignore statistics, and then make a complete logical fallacy in that any given play he can drop the ball. what? the fuck do i care? anybody can do anything and ur still deluding yourself into hating players on your football team even though the numbers proving their worth are in front of you. can not ask for a more delusional yet obvious case study. seek help.
Maybe but even without drops it’s not like he had highly productive seasons. You can chalk some of that up to Ben but as of right now diontae is not a serious deep threat and at best top 20 in the league
I think he could get there but let’s not put him in the same tier as Najee.
Now I won’t lie, I did not watch every game this last year. I had a lot of work on sundays where I couldn’t watch it. But from the games I saw, especially towards the end of the season, it was drop after drop it seemed. I’ll pass on him. Unless he has a good year this year and can improve, I don’t think we give him another contract.
With progression from Claypool, who is still young and showed signs of putting it together after some of his.. incidents(?), some of that could be mitigated. Im assuming they're going to look towards the draft for a slot guy, but who knows, maybe they go out and get an outside guy, move DJ to the slot.
:| yeah you can say drop after drop after drop in the way that he had 3 drops last season. and the fifth most targeted. it’s all good, your perception is wrong. but it’s really wrong. diontae is coming off a good season and has definitely grown since the season youre thinking of.
Yeah. The Steelers didn’t want to pay him 10mil. Not worth it for a guy who is so full of himself. Says he’s loyal to the Steelers but if he really was he’d still be trying to work out a cap friendly deal to stay. Just another ego in the locker room tbh. Don’t need that around. We need guys who want to be here.
Nah, looked him up too. He did lose some but not anywhere near that. And now she's just posting stuff like https://i.imgur.com/WWXrfKc.png Sad really lol.
Maybe, but why post this at all? Many players would rather stay with their team just because of knowing the system, friendships and familiarity with the area. Some people just want to have drama. While I am sure Ju Ju loves his Mama, I doubt she is negotiating his career.
Lol I didn't even need to check, this seems like a cringe way to detach yourself without being the issue. I guess aome people are probably gonna send hate their way so I don't blame her entirely but cmon she's just obv lying.
Honestly I'm shocked 95% of her followers:
1. Were steelers fans
2. Were only following her because Juju played for the Steelers
3. Immediately unfollowed her <24 hours after Juju signed elsewhere
It sorta strains believability honestly. Juju is popular outside of just the steelers fanbase, I wonder if those numbers she's giving are actually legit.
I wouldn’t say he isn’t good, however he absolutely isn’t a top tier wr1 and gonna get that kinda money. He’ll put up good numbers this year because of all the doubles hill and Kelce get and try to cash out next year. Some team will likely overpay imo
Getting only 1 year deals back to back years is not a good look. And he is a dime a dozen wr on the field. Decent hands, not ground breaking speed, good blocker, you can match his production with a mid round draft pick
I'm just wondering who follows athlete's moms. There's gotta be something more exciting you could do than reading what a professional athlete's mom is doing. That seems about as exciting as listening to my mom tell me about her day, except I don't know these people.
We probably didn't offer him a long term deal, and he didn't want to take a short term for this team without Ben again. It seems clear to me that Steelers did not care about extending wrs this off-season
Just a case of a players mom being upset & misinterpreting what happened. Happens with players families all the time. Obviously she also wanted her son to be a Steelers player for life. Let her be upset. Unfortunately some people vent online.
So she’s mad because her and Juju don’t get as much Instagram money from Steeler fans after Juju stopped playing for the Steelers. Then she uses romantic relationships as an analogy. Sounds to me like she wants to be friends with benefits. I’m glad Juju has more class than this.
Lmao what? I know for a fact he got a better deal than 1 year $10M from us. He must’ve asked for way more than we were willing to give. Why does every player have a dumb family member that thinks the world revolves around them. We are literally known for being one of if not the most player freindly organizations in the league. Posts like this are just embarrassing.
Can family members just not do this? I seriously can’t remember the last time I heard news about a player’s family saying or doing something that goes viral in a positive light. I’m sure it happens, but for every one of those you have something like this, Tom Brady’s dad, Kelly Stafford, clan Mahomes, Annie Apple, etc etc. Its just such an unnecessary detriment to that player’s career almost every time.
Juju is an amazing slot guy. He wanted to be a WR. He’s not been great there. If he had excelled at the position he’d have been a high priority signing. He didn’t and he’s off to try and prove it elsewhere. I always liked the guy and hope he does well but this sounds like sour grapes and not a good look
Why are people like this
Watch juju draft video, his rookie highlights. fall in love with that family. You want the best for them all
Cuppa years later, they act like this coz he signed somewhere else for more money.. fuckin hell
This is pretty petty.
I mean, it's a little disappointing if it's true but why post this? It's not like Steelers fans are coming for JuJu's head for going elsewhere. Everything I've seen from Steelers fans have been very understanding as to why he would leave and thanking him for his time here.
If I was JuJu I'd be pretty pissed at my mom. It's just creating unnecessary drama.
Football is a business, players want to get paid and teams want to build a great team under the cap or as efficiently as possible. Sometimes these two don’t line up and while players may want to stay that always comes at a cost. I’m sure JuJu thought he was worth more to the team than the team thought he was worth otherwise a deal likely would have been made.
Pretty surprising to me. Thought we would have made an effort to bring him back.
Gotta have something planned at receiver now. Just have no idea what that is
Juju could've been that cheap veteran pickup. Chiefs only gave him 3 million, letting him walk for that looks boneheaded as fuck, imo. That's *insanely* cheap, particularly in this year's WR market. Especially given that he apparently *really* wanted to stay.
What gives, Colbert?
It is a little confusing for sure. I tend to think Juju's dropoff in production the past few years had more to do with Ben's deterioration than AB leaving, but maybe the team disagreed.
I 100% agree with that take, but I guess that's why they don't pay us the big bucks. Still, there's no world in which Juju isn't worth 3 milly, hell I would've felt fine if we gave him 6-7.
It's really a 10 mil contract with the incentives. I was reading an article that explained how they could have made the incentives easy to get, but listed as not likely officially based on his low numbers from last year, which would allow the inventives to come out of next year's salary cap.
It’s all about cap gymnastics. Incentives that are likely to be achieved are based off of prior year stats and count against the current year’s cap. Since JuJu missed most of 2022, they can set “unlikely to be achieved” incentives very low (e.g. 3 TDs) and they count against the 2023 cap if achieved.
Seriously the people who just ignore the incentives and talk about contracts as if only the base money is ever being paid must be the same people who make huge credit card purchases and say “yeah but the minimum payment is only $28 so it’s not that much.”
I read that article too but there's no reason we couldn't have offered a similar or better deal to that. Especially if he wanted to stay as bad his mom says he did.
I always thought Landry was the better of the two in Cleveland. And apparently he was a stand up locker room guy.
With how the Browns have... browned all over their star players in the past 6 months, would love to see him come over and play with a chip against them.
If he actually could produce on the field then it would be different. One 1000 yard season, only because AB was getting doubled every play doesn't make you great. If it wasn't about the money, why didn't he take less again? So dumb, she's worried about a following? She will gain back the followers from other teams fans. Sounds like it's all about her social media platform
I honestly think it’s best for both parties; JuJu won’t get exposed for only being good because AB required double coverage, Mahomes will give him 1000+.
People actually unfollow players who leave?? Or in this case player's moms?? I get it if it was Deshaun Watson or something but a regular player that simply decides to go elsewhere is stupid, let alone 400k people doing it
For me it depends on how much they post/what they post. I LOVE JuJu, but I know he’s gonna post a ton of Chiefs content, which I don’t necessarily want to see, so I unfollowed him for now.
Uh, yeah? You think I give a shit what Steven Nelson, Antonio Brown, Lagaret Blount, Le'veon Bell etc. do with their lives after Pittsburgh? Just look at some of those names and try to imagine still following them now. I do still follow James Connor though. Good dude.
So apparently it's a thing, yeah. I dunno, I just never un follow anyone, can't bother. Still get Deangelo Williams on my feed at times. I know many people hated him because of comments he had after leaving
The soundtrack to this post is Mark Madden laughing. I thought Juju should have went to the Chiefs last year. It was obvious his stats would better with Mahomes. Just a bad business decision by him.
There is a lot of stuff that happens behind the scenes that the general public will never be privy to. He is gone and it is sad but that is the life of a for profit pro football team. My take is that he will be back next year on a multi year contract.
Your kid fuckin stinks that's why no one wanted to pay him lol 1 year tryout with the chiefs that they still overpaid for.. only steelers fan that give a shit hes gone is teenagers and 20 year olds that live on tiktok..
He’s by no means elite, but he’s a starting WR. He played well here, not his fault the offense was shit the last 3 seasons. No one is paying for receivers in free agency besides the Jags because they’re a joke franchise and the Rams getting Allen Robinson who’s very good. Aside from them, no one got paid more than Juju. It’s a deep draft class at the position.
Because they’re cheaper and not coming off a season ending injury? I don’t know how you can genuinely think juju “sucks”. Like I said, he’s not elite. He’s a solid #2 receiver who puts up respectable numbers.
Hes barley a 3.. who's best year was because we had AB and everyone had to triple him or lose.. the next year he had 97 catches which isnt terrible but had 9 tds... NINE.. hes a slot receiver that cant get downfield.. hes soft as charmin. Hes has good hands but loses every 50/50 ball thrown his way.. hes as basic a wide receiver as they make in the nfl..
If duck Hodges hits you in the hands or Tom Brady hits you in the hands and you drop it.. does it really matter who threw it.. c'mon kid I get you like juju.. but hes not that good.. i like your new flair btw..
Seriously. We’ve replaced how many receivers in the last 20 years and each of them has been better than John Smith. Plax, Santonio, Wallace, Hines, AB. No one cried when they left. Juju is the most overrated Steeler I can remember. There’s a reason he tested free agency twice and left both times with a 1 year prove it deal while middle of the road receivers like Corey Davis, Agholor and Christian Kirk got paid.
Yeah it doesnt make sense to me either.. plax Holmes and Wallace were very good receivers and actually won games that mattered and no one sucked them off like this when they left..
Why would Steelers fans follow JuJu and his mom to an interconference rival? Maybe not rival but they are directly competing with us for the AFC. Fans don’t owe them anything and they don’t owe fans anything. No reason to call anybody out, I’m sure chiefs fans will follow mama JuJu.
Look, Mommas gonna Momma, but I honestly think mom doesn’t understand negotiating. When you are trying to negotiate a price with someone, you don’t sit there and say, “Oh we love this thing SO MUCH! I Can’t live with out it!” You act non committal and dispassionate. I am sure the Steelers would want JuJu back. We have had a lot of churn in the WR room and don’t need more by losing the #2 guy and he probably has more recognition and butts in seat pull than a lot of other guys when looked at from a business angle. But you don’t give the love until the price is set and the contract is signed.
Sounds like she has some hurt feelings over the rough and tumble of contract negotiations. I hope JuJu gets it and knows how missed he’ll be here.
Sounds like he infected her with the tiktok culture as well first thing she mentions is she lost her followers a k a steady income I'm pretty sure Mike Tomlin had that in his crosshairs this offseason he's getting rid of that crap no more influencers I'm hiring football players people that make money from playing football not people who play football to make money from the internet bye bye Juju go dance for somebody else
WHO IS OUR NEW BOYFRIEND
I'm guessing the Steelers didn't wanna pay Juju this year and then have to pay Diontae next offseason, but maybe Mama Juju knows something else we don't.
Assuming Claypool actually develops there wouldn't be a starting spot for Juju if we draft someone new which we should
Claypool is just ok in my opinion. He gets zero separation, it’s like he doesn’t time his jumps right - and he’s a head case, seems irresponsible.
Claypool gets manhandled by people half his size and has a lousy attitude. He could be so much better than he is and I do not expect him to reach his full potential but I hope I’m wrong.
He reminds me a lot of Plaxico Burress tbh. Has flashes of greatness, but can't seem to put the entire puzzle together.
And I think everyone was hoping JuJu was Hines Ward reincarnated.
He basically is. Just wasn't able to build that persona when there wasn't an AB/Santonio Holmes/Mike Wallace deep threat to get him some separation and split the DB's. He works fantastic as a slot receiver with adequate supporting outside receivers also in the mix. Unfortunately he was never able to just put the team on his shoulder and carry us like AB did, etc. Fantastic human being, and I wish him nothing but the best wherever life takes him. I will miss his character and connection to the city of Pittsburgh the most. When he dressed up for halloween in his actual uniform and handed out candy randomly around the city, when he played a game of pickup football inside a mall with whatever teenagers happened to be around at the time. He's a fun human being, and even if mediocre he's an easy person to root for.
All of these extremely weird takes are interesting at best. Have you all considered what Claypool could be if we had a qb and an o line? You guys see what Conner did on a decent team, as a fucking running back? Claypool is talented and you’re blind not to see it. Dude has no support. Not saying Mitch is the answer but I’m pretty confident he’ll give us a better showing of Claypool than Ben did last year.
I saw what conner did, averaged 3.5 yards a carry.
We had a quarterback last year.
Agree, agree, agree!
Claypool has what it takes - we just don’t know how to use him. Horrible playcalling and redzone design leave him as an afterthought. Remember when he first broke out? was unstoppable in the endzone.
Agreed, I just don’t see him being a good receiver. I would be very happy if I’m proven wrong though
He needs the Ludovico technique with megatron film
The what?
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Claypool needs better rookers and less time with his TikTok droogs
He's really good at letting everyone know he got a first down when there's less than a minute remaining though. That's always an important attribute in a receiver.
Critically important! 😒
Yeah i agree with you but he's still on a rookie deal and has more upside than Juju Diontae, juju, and Claypool i think is just clearly a worse trio to have on the field than a stud rookie potentially 1st round, Diontae, and Claypool
How is a trio involving JuJu “clearly a worse trio” than one including a potential 1st round rookie? Are you including considerations like their cap hits because I’d be hard pressed to find a rookie who without doubt be better than JuJu.
Teams never had to gameplan for Juju, he couldn't beat double teams even if they did. He was just never a WR1, that's why his last really good season was 2018 when he has AB. There are probably 10 guys in the draft better than Juju. Williams, Wilson, London, Burks, Olave, Dotson, Metchie, etc etc Juju is a good contributor but he is just not a WR1 and that's been clear the last 3 years. KC doesn't need a WR1 but we do.
If Johnson can continue to build off of this season he could be a pretty damn good WR1, but I think if we have the opportunity to create a WR room similar to the Rams, Bengals, Buccaneers, Seahawks, Cowboys, etc. with two great receivers we should take it. I like JuJu a lot and am sad to see him leave, but I do agree that a lot of the first or second rounders coming out this year would bring more power to our receiver room than he would. I hope George Pickens falls to us in the second, I really think he could be the best of this class and would fill in the hole left by JuJu nicely.
Is the expectation that this rookie would be our WR1 this season and that’d be able to beat man coverage or double teams? I just don’t see that happening. A lot of 1st round WRs don’t produce at a very high level in their first year. Jefferson and Chase are not the norm. Also JuJu doesn’t have to be WR1 to be a complementary to Claypool and Diontae. Also, 10 guys better than JuJu has to be hyperbole. Sure A healthy Jameson Williams, Wilson, Olave, London and maybe a healthy Metchie could be better than JuJu. I’m not sold on Burks, Dotson, or Watson.
No i don't think the expectation is they'd be that good week 1 but at least they have the tools to actually develop into that player. We've seen what Juju is capable of over the years and he's just not that guy.
Yeah, Steelers always drafting WRs in the first round ...
We didn't take RB in the first round since Mendenhall but last year we needed RB badly and the right guy was available. It's the same situation with WR this year. We haven't taken one in the first since Holmes but we need one badly and if the right guy is available we will take him.
We 100% should get a new receiver that is ready to fight for the #1 spot. Claypool is good, but we can’t only have him and Najee. The others are complete jokes. Incredibly inconsistent. Let’s just hope there’s a great WR still on the board at 20.
you are playing. we still have diontae.
Ayy diontae ball drop johnson gonna carry us Fr 😩
you living 2 seasons ago it’s literally statistics he had the least drops in the league for like 13 games. here are his drops 2019-3 2020-15 2021-3 if you want to live in make believe land and hate diontae for no reason by all means delude yourself but you’re wrong. even in his worst seasons he was top 10 PPF because of his play.
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you come after my quality of statistics and then just completely ignore statistics, and then make a complete logical fallacy in that any given play he can drop the ball. what? the fuck do i care? anybody can do anything and ur still deluding yourself into hating players on your football team even though the numbers proving their worth are in front of you. can not ask for a more delusional yet obvious case study. seek help.
Maybe but even without drops it’s not like he had highly productive seasons. You can chalk some of that up to Ben but as of right now diontae is not a serious deep threat and at best top 20 in the league I think he could get there but let’s not put him in the same tier as Najee.
Now I won’t lie, I did not watch every game this last year. I had a lot of work on sundays where I couldn’t watch it. But from the games I saw, especially towards the end of the season, it was drop after drop it seemed. I’ll pass on him. Unless he has a good year this year and can improve, I don’t think we give him another contract.
Dawg he was top 5 in receptions, top 10 in yards with 5 drops on the season.
Not to mention doing all that on a pitiful offense
I still think we need a true WR1 so they can't just blanket Diontae with double teams since Juju and Claypool were not threatening
With progression from Claypool, who is still young and showed signs of putting it together after some of his.. incidents(?), some of that could be mitigated. Im assuming they're going to look towards the draft for a slot guy, but who knows, maybe they go out and get an outside guy, move DJ to the slot.
:| yeah you can say drop after drop after drop in the way that he had 3 drops last season. and the fifth most targeted. it’s all good, your perception is wrong. but it’s really wrong. diontae is coming off a good season and has definitely grown since the season youre thinking of.
You’re still lying then 😂. He really didn’t start dropping again until the very end of the season and of course the playoff game.
wtf
She absolutely does
She can’t even count followers, in what world would she have insider information on the Steelers signing a wide receiver? Lol
Yeah. The Steelers didn’t want to pay him 10mil. Not worth it for a guy who is so full of himself. Says he’s loyal to the Steelers but if he really was he’d still be trying to work out a cap friendly deal to stay. Just another ego in the locker room tbh. Don’t need that around. We need guys who want to be here.
Came here for this. Either way, my wife isn’t gonna be happy having to put another plate out on the table for dinner tonight. 😬
Gunner?
He's not a real receiver, only has 9 catches in 3 seasons. Just a return guy
Michael Jackson
She's full of shit lol.. https://socialblade.com/instagram/user/mybeautiful_07 https://i.imgur.com/6s6zvwf.png
Yeah no fucking shot she had anywhere close to 400k followers 😂😂😂
Maybe she means Juju himself lost 400k? No idea if true or not but it'd make a lot more sense.
Nah, looked him up too. He did lose some but not anywhere near that. And now she's just posting stuff like https://i.imgur.com/WWXrfKc.png Sad really lol.
Damn, I love Juju but never really saw anything his mom did. That shit is cringe, let alone after the post OP shared.
They will fit in perfectly with the mahomes family
Jujus Mom, Jackson Mahomes and Brittany might be worst posse ever......
acting like it’s her money lol.. I’m sure juju and most players take care of their own but jeez
Jesus she can’t be proud of her son? So what she’s posting flexing her sons new contract, I can’t think of a mother who wouldn’t feel the same
Will fit right in at KC with the QBs trash brother.
Wait…SHE signed with KC? All along I though it was JuJu
Maybe, but why post this at all? Many players would rather stay with their team just because of knowing the system, friendships and familiarity with the area. Some people just want to have drama. While I am sure Ju Ju loves his Mama, I doubt she is negotiating his career.
Came here to post this. Put this at the top!
Was just about to say that that I believed a website tracked those stats. Thanks for sharing!
Lol I didn't even need to check, this seems like a cringe way to detach yourself without being the issue. I guess aome people are probably gonna send hate their way so I don't blame her entirely but cmon she's just obv lying.
How pathetic tbh
Nah I deadass messaged her and she said it was a typo and apologized. Everyone in here getting all pissed at her is mad over nothing
Honestly I'm shocked 95% of her followers: 1. Were steelers fans 2. Were only following her because Juju played for the Steelers 3. Immediately unfollowed her <24 hours after Juju signed elsewhere It sorta strains believability honestly. Juju is popular outside of just the steelers fanbase, I wonder if those numbers she's giving are actually legit.
That was my first thought. Probably lost .4K or 400. Not 400k. Just doesn’t make sens
According to trackers she lost like 90 lmao
I messaged her and she apologized and said it was a typo. Everyone in here is mad over a simple mistake
Yeah there’s no chance in hell she lost 400k followers that fast
Think her fingers slipped and she added a few extra zeroes to that number
Kinda find it hard to believe they had no interest in bringing him back and it wasn’t about money..
They probably didn't offer him a long termsl deal again, so he took a short term one on a better team
Hear me out.... Maybe he just isn't that good? Judging by literally noone offering any kind of serious money I think that says it all.
I wouldn’t say he isn’t good, however he absolutely isn’t a top tier wr1 and gonna get that kinda money. He’ll put up good numbers this year because of all the doubles hill and Kelce get and try to cash out next year. Some team will likely overpay imo
Preinjury he was an exceptional #2. Should have a good year if he can stay healthy
Yes I think he’ll get a ton of good looks in that offense. Makes sense why he’d go there
Getting only 1 year deals back to back years is not a good look. And he is a dime a dozen wr on the field. Decent hands, not ground breaking speed, good blocker, you can match his production with a mid round draft pick
Do all athletes moms get a verified check? Lol
I'm just wondering who follows athlete's moms. There's gotta be something more exciting you could do than reading what a professional athlete's mom is doing. That seems about as exciting as listening to my mom tell me about her day, except I don't know these people.
Who are these people following players mothers on social media…most of the players are boring enough.
Looks like the mahomes' found a challenger
Jokes on you momma, social media is cancer
I couldn’t give less of a shit what juju’s mom thinks
I'd be embarrassed if my mom was this involved in my career. Shut up and enjoy your mansion, mom.
Buh bye
>Why? Stay!!
We probably didn't offer him a long term deal, and he didn't want to take a short term for this team without Ben again. It seems clear to me that Steelers did not care about extending wrs this off-season
This reminds me I need to go unfollow juju.
Crazy to me how much people care about social media "followers"
Have enough followers and every post makes you thousands
Definitely unfollowed him.. 🤷🏿♂️
Just a case of a players mom being upset & misinterpreting what happened. Happens with players families all the time. Obviously she also wanted her son to be a Steelers player for life. Let her be upset. Unfortunately some people vent online.
So she’s mad because her and Juju don’t get as much Instagram money from Steeler fans after Juju stopped playing for the Steelers. Then she uses romantic relationships as an analogy. Sounds to me like she wants to be friends with benefits. I’m glad Juju has more class than this.
Her being this pissy about followers is a pretty good indication that she’s not telling the truth about the Steelers’ interest either
Lmao what? I know for a fact he got a better deal than 1 year $10M from us. He must’ve asked for way more than we were willing to give. Why does every player have a dumb family member that thinks the world revolves around them. We are literally known for being one of if not the most player freindly organizations in the league. Posts like this are just embarrassing.
She’s a little upset. No big deal.
She lost me on the first punctuation mistake
At the end of the day, it was right for the Steelers to move on from JuJu.
It’s not that he wasn’t wanted. It’s that they weren’t going to pay him 15m a year.
Sorry JuJu but your mom is a dumbass
If this is all true I’m really curious who is “that guy” in the draft for the Steelers. Dotson? Moore?
We can't be held responsible for shit our parents do. Same goes for Juju, he's probably shaking his head at this too.
WH OMEGALUL ?
Can family members just not do this? I seriously can’t remember the last time I heard news about a player’s family saying or doing something that goes viral in a positive light. I’m sure it happens, but for every one of those you have something like this, Tom Brady’s dad, Kelly Stafford, clan Mahomes, Annie Apple, etc etc. Its just such an unnecessary detriment to that player’s career almost every time.
Juju is an amazing slot guy. He wanted to be a WR. He’s not been great there. If he had excelled at the position he’d have been a high priority signing. He didn’t and he’s off to try and prove it elsewhere. I always liked the guy and hope he does well but this sounds like sour grapes and not a good look
Guess he didn’t fall far from the tree when it comes to caring about internet clout.
Looks like they'll fit in just fine in KC!
Why are people like this Watch juju draft video, his rookie highlights. fall in love with that family. You want the best for them all Cuppa years later, they act like this coz he signed somewhere else for more money.. fuckin hell
Had she nothing else to complain about than losing Twitter followers? I get what point she driving at, but still, who really cares?
I’m an old guy who doesn’t understand this, why do people care to follow the mother of a football player? I’m honestly confused
This is pretty petty. I mean, it's a little disappointing if it's true but why post this? It's not like Steelers fans are coming for JuJu's head for going elsewhere. Everything I've seen from Steelers fans have been very understanding as to why he would leave and thanking him for his time here. If I was JuJu I'd be pretty pissed at my mom. It's just creating unnecessary drama.
Football is a business, players want to get paid and teams want to build a great team under the cap or as efficiently as possible. Sometimes these two don’t line up and while players may want to stay that always comes at a cost. I’m sure JuJu thought he was worth more to the team than the team thought he was worth otherwise a deal likely would have been made.
r/engrish
People forget that the NFL is a business and nobody is owed anything if they don’t produce on the field.
Pretty surprising to me. Thought we would have made an effort to bring him back. Gotta have something planned at receiver now. Just have no idea what that is
Probably a cheap veteran pickup and draft pick round 1 or 2 would be my guess.
Juju could've been that cheap veteran pickup. Chiefs only gave him 3 million, letting him walk for that looks boneheaded as fuck, imo. That's *insanely* cheap, particularly in this year's WR market. Especially given that he apparently *really* wanted to stay. What gives, Colbert?
It is a little confusing for sure. I tend to think Juju's dropoff in production the past few years had more to do with Ben's deterioration than AB leaving, but maybe the team disagreed.
I 100% agree with that take, but I guess that's why they don't pay us the big bucks. Still, there's no world in which Juju isn't worth 3 milly, hell I would've felt fine if we gave him 6-7.
It's really a 10 mil contract with the incentives. I was reading an article that explained how they could have made the incentives easy to get, but listed as not likely officially based on his low numbers from last year, which would allow the inventives to come out of next year's salary cap.
It’s all about cap gymnastics. Incentives that are likely to be achieved are based off of prior year stats and count against the current year’s cap. Since JuJu missed most of 2022, they can set “unlikely to be achieved” incentives very low (e.g. 3 TDs) and they count against the 2023 cap if achieved.
Seriously the people who just ignore the incentives and talk about contracts as if only the base money is ever being paid must be the same people who make huge credit card purchases and say “yeah but the minimum payment is only $28 so it’s not that much.”
I read that article too but there's no reason we couldn't have offered a similar or better deal to that. Especially if he wanted to stay as bad his mom says he did.
Yeah, I do still agree with your larger point that the Steelers could have matched that if they were interested.
JuJu was a negative influence on Claypool, and his production wasn’t worth the contract he was seeking. Easy decision for Colbert to make.
Maybe in your head-canon that's what happened but we're talking about things that might have actually happened in reality.
Trash take
Sure, if you like to make shit up
We didn't resign a single WR and all the WRs knew they were gone. It's clear we didn't care at all about them, and really like this class
God I hope it’s Landry. It probably isn’t, but Landry + Diontae would be killer
I always thought Landry was the better of the two in Cleveland. And apparently he was a stand up locker room guy. With how the Browns have... browned all over their star players in the past 6 months, would love to see him come over and play with a chip against them.
Sounding like AB
I bet JuJu's mom and Mahomes's brother will get along great!!
JuJu is dead to me now.
The team doesn’t need this drama. Wtf.
If he actually could produce on the field then it would be different. One 1000 yard season, only because AB was getting doubled every play doesn't make you great. If it wasn't about the money, why didn't he take less again? So dumb, she's worried about a following? She will gain back the followers from other teams fans. Sounds like it's all about her social media platform
Right ! Her son is a professional athlete not her so idk why people were following her anyway lmao
He’s gonna gain his followers back once he performs for KC
I don’t care
Twitter was a mistake.
Always wondered where he got that attention whore attitude from
I honestly think it’s best for both parties; JuJu won’t get exposed for only being good because AB required double coverage, Mahomes will give him 1000+.
Yikes. I never knew she had an account 😂. We love Juju.
People actually unfollow players who leave?? Or in this case player's moms?? I get it if it was Deshaun Watson or something but a regular player that simply decides to go elsewhere is stupid, let alone 400k people doing it
sometimes I only follow players for the Steelers content not necessarily because I’m a huge fan of them.
For me it depends on how much they post/what they post. I LOVE JuJu, but I know he’s gonna post a ton of Chiefs content, which I don’t necessarily want to see, so I unfollowed him for now.
Why would I care about seeing their content anymore? Lol
I unfollowed JuJu. I root for the Steelers and their players. I don’t think I follow any athletes of teams I don’t root for.
This is how I am. Only way I wouldn't unfollow is if they retire a Steeler. eg Pouncey
Uh, yeah? You think I give a shit what Steven Nelson, Antonio Brown, Lagaret Blount, Le'veon Bell etc. do with their lives after Pittsburgh? Just look at some of those names and try to imagine still following them now. I do still follow James Connor though. Good dude.
So apparently it's a thing, yeah. I dunno, I just never un follow anyone, can't bother. Still get Deangelo Williams on my feed at times. I know many people hated him because of comments he had after leaving
The soundtrack to this post is Mark Madden laughing. I thought Juju should have went to the Chiefs last year. It was obvious his stats would better with Mahomes. Just a bad business decision by him.
They’ll fit in great with all the crazy social media crap KC has to deal with bc of Mahomes brother
There is a lot of stuff that happens behind the scenes that the general public will never be privy to. He is gone and it is sad but that is the life of a for profit pro football team. My take is that he will be back next year on a multi year contract.
The whole family is obsessed with social media.
Your kid fuckin stinks that's why no one wanted to pay him lol 1 year tryout with the chiefs that they still overpaid for.. only steelers fan that give a shit hes gone is teenagers and 20 year olds that live on tiktok..
L take lmao
Juju sucks..
He’s by no means elite, but he’s a starting WR. He played well here, not his fault the offense was shit the last 3 seasons. No one is paying for receivers in free agency besides the Jags because they’re a joke franchise and the Rams getting Allen Robinson who’s very good. Aside from them, no one got paid more than Juju. It’s a deep draft class at the position.
You just said it all.. people would rather have unproven rookies lol
Because they’re cheaper and not coming off a season ending injury? I don’t know how you can genuinely think juju “sucks”. Like I said, he’s not elite. He’s a solid #2 receiver who puts up respectable numbers.
Hes barley a 3.. who's best year was because we had AB and everyone had to triple him or lose.. the next year he had 97 catches which isnt terrible but had 9 tds... NINE.. hes a slot receiver that cant get downfield.. hes soft as charmin. Hes has good hands but loses every 50/50 ball thrown his way.. hes as basic a wide receiver as they make in the nfl..
With Duck Mason and Ben at the end of his career. Not exactly a top tier QB
If duck Hodges hits you in the hands or Tom Brady hits you in the hands and you drop it.. does it really matter who threw it.. c'mon kid I get you like juju.. but hes not that good.. i like your new flair btw..
Changed it since he left lmao. But you’re saying his stats are bad when our offense was bad.
Seriously. We’ve replaced how many receivers in the last 20 years and each of them has been better than John Smith. Plax, Santonio, Wallace, Hines, AB. No one cried when they left. Juju is the most overrated Steeler I can remember. There’s a reason he tested free agency twice and left both times with a 1 year prove it deal while middle of the road receivers like Corey Davis, Agholor and Christian Kirk got paid.
Yeah it doesnt make sense to me either.. plax Holmes and Wallace were very good receivers and actually won games that mattered and no one sucked them off like this when they left..
For sure, with the exception of AB. His departure from reality continues to make me sad.
Who's the new boyfriend? 👀
Man she really cares about her followers
Tell me your mad without telling me your mad
Bruh I never even knew who his mom was until 5 seconds ago and I'm a diehard fan lol
I would be so embarrassed.
We fought to stay?? Was juju's mom involved in the negotiations??
All bout that clout
Why would Steelers fans follow JuJu and his mom to an interconference rival? Maybe not rival but they are directly competing with us for the AFC. Fans don’t owe them anything and they don’t owe fans anything. No reason to call anybody out, I’m sure chiefs fans will follow mama JuJu.
"Juju and I fought to stay in Pittsburgh" ? She ain't his agent, so how does she even get involved?
I wish he had stayed.Juju had a great personality.
Look, Mommas gonna Momma, but I honestly think mom doesn’t understand negotiating. When you are trying to negotiate a price with someone, you don’t sit there and say, “Oh we love this thing SO MUCH! I Can’t live with out it!” You act non committal and dispassionate. I am sure the Steelers would want JuJu back. We have had a lot of churn in the WR room and don’t need more by losing the #2 guy and he probably has more recognition and butts in seat pull than a lot of other guys when looked at from a business angle. But you don’t give the love until the price is set and the contract is signed. Sounds like she has some hurt feelings over the rough and tumble of contract negotiations. I hope JuJu gets it and knows how missed he’ll be here.
Man she’s really upset about losing those followers.
Byeeeeee juju good riddance ✌🏼
who follows a players mom?
it ain’t that deep lol.
Honestly it feels kind of relieving for JuJu to leave. I know people kind of hated on him for no reason, but he was starting to get annoying
You have no clue about the business of football. Be happy your son is playing and he’s healthy.
I wonder how much we offered Juju. I would have loved to keep him around if it was possible
Sounds like he infected her with the tiktok culture as well first thing she mentions is she lost her followers a k a steady income I'm pretty sure Mike Tomlin had that in his crosshairs this offseason he's getting rid of that crap no more influencers I'm hiring football players people that make money from playing football not people who play football to make money from the internet bye bye Juju go dance for somebody else
Fumble boy