how will wallace loss affect AB......ben says....

http://www.steelersdepot.com/2013/0...g-to-miss-mike-wallace-right-from-the-get-go/

i remember last preseason you could tell they missed him.

 

That's why the next man up has to step up. Weather it be Sanders or a draft pick. But look at the past, we lost Plex, then came Holmes, Lost Holmes then came Wallace, Had Wallace then found Brown, now have Brown.....
So who is the next guy up?

 

Agreed

 

an injury anywhere next year could be devastating. WR,OLB,S,ILB,TE already is a problem,RB, O-line,D-line, thank goodness gay was signed, or CB would be on the list.

 

I really hope we take Patterson out of UT in the first. This kid is the real deal.

Mike

 

but how much will it help this year?

 

it wasen't meant to mean all those positions at once, rather any of them or a couple of them. we are very young now all around.

 

Yeah Blast but, Sanders needs to hold his catches. I think he will do that better this year

 

Patterson seems to be a classic boom or bust prospect. He'll make the occasional splash play but then disappear for much of the rest of the game. Is it Justin Hunter that was on the opposite side of him at UT, I can't remember? He seems like a better target for the Steelers in rd. 2.

 

Justin Hunter has Wallace hands. Also he has already torn an acl too. A lot of people liked Hunter here in Knoxville though.

 

Have they even expressed any interest in Hunter at all? Yesterday people were making fun of me because they think we are gonna take Bray. I told them people outside of Knoxville think Bray is better than the people here do. A very reliable source told me yesterday that after Bray got in trouble for throwing beer bottles at people that the girl who told on him found her car window smashed out the next day and was gonna press charges but Bray said he would pay and they were swept under the rug. My best friend is a jailer at the Knox County jail and he said that when a UT player gets arrested there are usually people from the university there to throw their bail before they even make it there themselves. He said there's a lot of dirty stuff that goes on with the players. But it seemed that at one point a few years ago that Bray and Hunter had made a pretty good tandem and then Hunter tore his ACL at the FL game I believe wasn't it? People here were devastated.

 

I was asking someone about Patterson the other day and they said they didn't think he had any issues because I told them I was afraid he was a head case and they said "oh no he's not had any problems at all". What is it you're referring to exactly? Last night a guy told me that Patterson is really at his best with the ball in his hands but that he's really versatile as well. He said he thinks Hunter is better as just a pure receiver but overall Patterson is probably a better football player.

 

I actually just watched a video about him on NFL.COM that said his draft stock is falling and that teams are really hesitant to take him because they don't think he's gonna be able to grasp a pro system. They compared him to Justin Hunter and said Hunter is a great speed guy but has bad hands so there's no way I want him. As far as I'm concerned we just sent that same guy to Miami. But is it even confirmed that we would take a wr in the 1st?

 

Yeah with Wallace I was thinking just today that his drops started in the Cincy game on the road last year and I guess he just couldn't overcome them mentally. In that one game he had like 5 drops didn't he?

 

Sanders runs a 4.41 so it's not as if he can't go deep. IF he stays healthy he will do well as a starter.