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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.The original premise of the thread suggested letting the most proven and consistent WR of the BB/Brady era walk and paying more money to someone who's completely unproven in the offense so if you ask me, it was never going anywhere good in the first place
WRs are expendable in the pats O...no need to pay the $$ he wants..not even close. Save it to keep hernandez here
I'm not sure what the #'s are exactly, but aren't they unwilling to pay Welker, a PROVEN player in the system $8M-$9M per? So you would expect them to throw over $10M per at a guy who is completely unproven in this offense?
Someone clearly has forgotten the 2006 season.. :bricks:
You want to really make a statement to the league that the Pats aren't going nowhere Bill?
Pair Lloyd up with Wallace along with Gronk and Aaron. Then we'll see who's laughing at NE.
Most of you crying for youth at the receiver position? Doesn't get better than a frustrated Mike Wallace who's just 25 and about to enter his prime.
Honestly i wouldn't even be upset if we got someone like him and let Wes go. Someone else will fill that slot position no problem, but money can't buy a guy (or in this case can) who gets behind the best d backs in the league and opens up even MORE space for the most devastating TE combo out there with the best in the game throwing the ball.
You know it makes sense Bill, drive a dagger into the Steeler's hearts and get this guy while you can.
FWIW, the Steelers have apparently decided to throw the cash Mike Wallace wants at Antonio Brown. A day after announcing that they were withdrawing prior offers on the table to Wallace due to lack of progress in the negotiations, the Steelers reached a 5 year $42.5M deal on an extension with Brown:
Steelers ink Antonio Brown to long-term deal | ProFootballTalk
Source -- Pittsburgh Steelers lock up WR Antonio Brown with 5-year, $42.5 million deal - ESPN
It's not impossible, but it's hard to see how the Steelers can afford to pay Wallace in the ballpark of what he's asking given the Brown contract. Sounds like they read the tea leaves and decided to sign the guy who was willing to play ball with them. Of course, they have Mike Wallace's rights and can always use the franchise tag on him in 2013.
Here's an idea, pay them both.
It should be noted that in the second half of 2011 Brown produced close to twice as many rec yards as Wallace.
What does the long-term contract extension for Steelers receiver Antonio Brown mean for the future of the Steelers’ other starting receiver, Mike Wallace?
It may mean Wallace and the Steelers have no future together.
After Brown signed his deal, Steelers beat writer Ed Bouchette of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette wrote that there won’t be a new deal for Wallace. In other words, the Steelers are telling Wallace that his options are to sign his one-year tender and play this season for $2.7 million, or not to play at all.
If Wallace does sign that one-year tender, he’d become an unrestricted free agent a year from now. At that point, the Steelers could use the franchise tag to keep him, but Bouchette writes that there’s “no way” the Steelers will franchise Wallace. In other words, the Steelers have pretty much resigned themselves to getting one more year out of Wallace, and then letting him move on.
But will they even get another year out of Wallace? Not necessarily, according to Gerry Dulac of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, who writes that the Steelers could trade Wallace in training camp.
Wallace is a speed burner who has limited route running skills, whose production tailed off last year, and who thinks he is worth being paid ridiculous money. Not interested.
The widely held immediate reaction was that Wallace had overvalued himself. Fitzgerald signed an eight-year, $120 million contract last August. His deal included $50 million guaranteed.
On Friday night, however, Alan Robinson of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review wrote that Wallace’s asking price is more in line with the five-year, $55.555 million contract signed by Bucs receiver Vincent Jackson during the spring. Jackson’s deal contains $26 million guaranteed.
Ed Bouchette of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette has “guessed” that he might only cost a fourth-round pick.
A while back, according to those in the know in Pittsburgh, the Pittsburgh Steelers gave receiver Mike Wallace a contract offer somewhere in the area of $42 million over five years. If accepted, the deal would have resolved the fact that Wallace was given a first-round restricted free-agent tender, which guarantees him just $2.72 million in the 2012 season. Wallace was evidently unimpressed, which is why he's holding out of the Steelers' training camp. The team's response to the actions of their primary receiver over the last couple of years was essentially this: Go on and hold out -- we'll give Emmanuel Sanders your role as the "X" receiver in practice, and we'll give Antonio Brown, who almost matched your numbers in 2011, your contract.
And that's exactly what they did. On Friday, just two days after making their first public statements about Wallace's holdout during camp, the Steelers signed Brown to that very same five-year, $42.5 million extension.
It would really suck if the Jets found a way to get him.
You want to really make a statement to the league that the Pats aren't going nowhere Bill?
Pair Lloyd up with Wallace along with Gronk and Aaron. Then we'll see who's laughing at NE.
It would really suck if the Jets found a way to get him.