Which is why we're looking to upgrade our running game. If we upgrade the O-line and find a running game, AB, Sanders, Plax/Cotchery and whomever else we plug in at WR will look a lot better. Yes, I believe we can win a championship with this group at WR. By the same token, without a decent running game and O-Line, keeping Wallace isn't going to overcome those weaknesses.Originally Posted by Eich
You find it amusing that I mention needing a Fitz/Boldin type guy and in the next breath, you say that WR is a huge need in the draft ?
We're saying the same thing. I'm not saying we should try to sign a free agent like Fitz/Boldin. I'm saying draft a WR who is agressive in going after the ball (and hopefully TALL). Wallace's skill is speed. But to signficantly upgrade the WR group as a whole, we need a guy who plays agressive and can out-physical DBs. When Wallace's contract wasn't an issue, he wasn't good at this. And last year, he was simply awful in that respect, playing "not to get hurt".
who the hell quits for the fans? What in Gods Green Earth are you smoking? Plenty of players have to quit due to injuries... but who the hell quits for the fans? How does that even work?
I respect the fans too much to play in the NFL?
are you sipping, popping AND smoking? I know Wallace makes you angry but dammit, he made you ignant and crazy?
THE ARTICLE ITSELF, is stupid... tries to use a guy who gets injured as a good reason for Wallace to hold out and play through the RFA contract.... when the opposite is true... if you worry about injury, you sign the "Antonio Brown-like offer" and secure your future. Just sayin....
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DeVille's Late-March Mock (In Progress)
1.20 - Jackson Powers-Johnson, C, Oregon
2.51 - "WR/DL/CB" (tbd)
3.84 - "WR/DL/CB" (tbd)
3.98 - "WR/DL/CB" (tbd)
4.117 - Jordan Travis, QB, FSU
6.178 -Travis Glover, OT, Ga State
6.195 - Isaac Guerendo, RB, Louisville
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Had Wallace taken the $10 million/year contract, his financial future could have been secured...he chose to gamble that he'd do better by going the UFA route. Will he get a big enough contract to offset the $7+ million he forfeited this past season by not taking the Steelers' offer? We shall see.
Wallace wasn't going to make 10 million per year with the Steelers. Not sure why fans continue to insist the he was going to make 10 million per year??? NFL contracts are not guaranteed.
Sidney Rice - 18 mill guaranteed money.
Santonio Holmes - 24 mill in guaranteed money.
Vincent Jackson - 26 mill in guaranteede money.
Greg Jennings - 16.5 mill in guaranteed money.
Roddy White - 18.6 mill in guaranteed money.
Reggie Wayne - 12.5 guaranteed money
Andre Johnson - 48 mill guaranteed money
Miles Austin - 18 mill guaranteed money
Brandon Marshall - 25 mill guaranteed money
Calvin Johnson - 60 mill guaranteed money
Larry Fitz - 50 mill in guaranteed money
Guaranteed money offers more long term security then the overall value of a contract in the NFL. Basketball and baseball contracts are generally guaranteed. Wallace would had been a nut job to settle for a deal that only included 8.5 mill in guaranteed money based on what other WR's received.
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2024 Draft
1. Kool-Aid McKinstry CB
2. Sedrick Van Pran-Grainger OC
3. Malachi Corley WR
3. Maason Smith DT
4. Matt Goncalves OT
6. Trevin Wallace ILB
7. AJ Barner TE
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