Vikings "strongly" pursuing Wallace

We'll have to agree to disagree on that one. Do you think Wallace is a good route runner, has good hands, fights for the ball, is a good blocker, is a good leader on and off the field, catches the ball at it's highest point, is good after the catch? Sorry, Thigpen, but I don't think you can answer yes to any of these questions. What other skills are there? Maybe you do think that he's not lacking in any of these areas but when I look at Wallace (as objectively as I can even though his act has worn extremely thin on me) I see him lacking in ALL of these areas. And comparing someone's actual skill set to someone that may have a physical disadvantage (Pouncey as a midget or Ben as a one-armed QB) is comparing apples to oranges.

Wallace is fast, BLAZING FAST. Congratulations to him. Some idiotic team with an over-covetous owner is getting ready to make a huge mistake because of it IMHO.

 

One of those just made Joe Flacco the highest paid player in NFL history! (see Boldin, Anquan)

 

I wouldve GLADLY took the 2 losses with him not being in there. They wouldve been a lot less than ones he cost us by dropping passes or not fighting for the ball. Hes fast but he cant catch or hold onto the ball. My son loved him and got mad everytime I yelled 'HANDS OF STONE" everytime he dropped a ball. I told him if he would hold onto the ball, I wouldnt say it. Not many games he didnt hear me say it.

The FO offered him $50 mil and he turned up his nose.

 

That's generally the process that leads people to draw such a conclusion.

 

That was an awesome article Burgher! Thanks for putting that on here. I'm glad to see him go. He's not a true gamer. We witnessed a true gamer when we saw the catches Boldin was making in the Super Bowl this year. Wallace would've never made those catches. I wonder if Wallace even remembers he's a free agent? I mean the season has been over for a couple of months now so he might have lost focus. LOL.

 

Thigpen? I know I'm going back aways, but I don't seem to recall anyone on the team who could catch the ball after he left. Yes, we won some playoff games, but we also had some bad seasons after his departure as well. I realize wr wasn't our only need, just one of them.

 

I was also thinking Thigpen, when i read this

 

Louis Lipps?

 

Early in his career how many times did Hines Ward
get caught from behind? There you go. The Steelers
seem to be able to evaluate WR talent, its the CB and OL and DL
they have trouble with. That being said, we will be alright
once the one trick pony leaves for the MONEY!

 

Its a move Pittsburgh will regret..Mike has the talent a wide needs and with the right leadership this kid will remind us all day long he once wore the black & gold!!

 

The Steelers don't have any wide receiver that can fight for the ball like Boldin, not many teams do. I am sure Boldin would love to have Wallace's speed so he could create separation and not have to fight for the ball.

I certainly don't follow the Steelers obsessively like some on this board and Wallace had a bad year but he contributed to the team with his speed when he was targeted and when he wasn't. He also found openings in the defense when Roethlisberger was scrambling.

 

I was going to suggest this as well... which might not surprise anyone...

 

It's not apples and oranges at all. You just said that Wallace's speed is God-given. Just like height, or having two arms. You build a skill-set on top of those God-given gifts.

As Concussion said, players who fight for the ball are generally the ones without the speed for separation. Likewise, as I said, if you want Wallace to be a good blocker, he probably needs to bulk up - which means slowing him down, which makes no sense if that's his chief weapon.

I don't think Wallace is the second coming - he's a young guy, and there's lots of room for improvement in his game. But he's not flat out terrible at the things you mention. I actually think - entirely unsarcastically! - that Wallace is as good at catching and route-running as Mendy is at hitting the hole. The problem is, folks around here have created this illusion that Wallace is basically Darius Heyward-Bey, and has no football skill at all. Just like the idea that Mendenhall "dances" is embedded in people's minds, so that they never notice when a) he doesn't and b) all our other backs do.

I think though, Jack, you're right that we probably just need to agree to disagree on this!

 

This.

 

Okay, let's agree to disagree but I'd like to make a couple of more points. You can be an effective blocker without having to "bulk up" necessarily. Many times blocking is simply getting in someone's way and making the EFFORT. AB's not a big guy but he's a much better blocker than Wallace. Hines was more stocky but he wasn't necessarily a big guy and I've seen Hines put 300+ pounders on their cans!

As for the Wallace comparison to Darius Heyward-Bey, DHB would have done the same thing in Pittsburgh with Ben throwing him the ball that Wallace has done (IMHO). He has the same skill set as Wallace, the only difference is that Wallace has had Ben to throw the ball to him and DHB has had the likes of Gradkowski and Jamarcus Russell. Let's see how Wallace does when he goes to a team with a mediocre to average QB.

 

Let's just all agree to wish this guy well on his next team.

 

These posts make me wanna puke

 

anyway we dont have money to pay wallace ,good or bad he is , so let's think about how to replace him in the best way and move on

 

Good riddance the Steelers offered him a fair contract and he turned it down. Some team will overpay him and he will drop passes like he did with the Steelers.

 

I pick up a news paper, look on the internet, read in sports magazines where Wallace is rated the number one free agent, where he is considered the number one free agent to make an immediate impact on a team, now people saying this are ex players working in the media now or sports writers who have been following football for many years. Now either the Steelers don't know what they have in Wallace or all the other people are out in left field somewhere..............I tend to favor most here who have followed Wallace in every game and know his demeanor, he isn't worth the big money he will surely get going somewhere else.