I would give up a 2nd rounder for Wallace and pay him his $$ in a heartbeat. He is a true stretch the field deep threat. But I would not give up a 1st.
Agreed.
Any talk of giving up a precious 1st rounder (and then giving him a mega-contract as an unproven outsider in our offense) goes against everything that Belichick has stood for in his time here.
Wallace would have been great, had we drafted him instead of Tate. It's time to move on from that point though, and lately it sure seems like the Steelers are clearing a ton of cap room anyway in terms of trying to keep him.
In my opinion, this is just another Larry Fitzgerald fantasy wish that will never come true. I doubt we'd even look at him if he were an unrestricted free agent, let alone restricted.
If the Pats wanted Wallace (or a big name WR) badly enough, they could have offered a trade for a 2nd rounder at any time to a whole plethora of great WR's, and that team would have most likely traded the player.
I think a lot of people tend to underrate the importance of a 1st round draft pick, and overrate the skills of a lot of these players. Compensation that leads to a 1st round draft pick only happens once in a blue moon, yet for some reason a lot of people here act like it's a common thing.
