Shefty on Wallace

Shefty says no one wants to give up a first round pick for Wallace. That works for me. I think with Brown playing like he is, Wallace will be back on the long ball more than ever next year. I hope we can work a trifecta on Wallace/Brown and Sanders next year. Win/Show and place. :swordsman:

 

I think the fact they don't get Wallace under a new contract this year will really hurt the team, because I think Brown and Sanders contract will come up right around the same time next year?

I don't know if it is smart to have to negotiate with them all at once, even if the salary cap goes up, and especially if they all come off big years?

 

This is where (Omar) Khan works his magic!

 

They have to get Wallace signed this year, to have him and Brown both be free agents next year is going to be killer. I'm glad Colbert and Khan have to crunch these numbers and not me.

 

One of them will walk next season. OR we could sign one and franchise the other.

 

what is our cap looking like this time next year, anyone know?

 

I think you're right I saw an article a few weeks ago saying that this year, as we all know, Wallace is a RFA, and next year Brown and Sanders will both be RFA's as well. We have to sign Wallace to a deal before next season

 

why ? we can tender a first round brown and sanders next year too

 

And franchise Wallace if we want to.

 

Then Brown and Sanders could be stolen by another team and be more willing to accept another teams offer....since they will have seen how the Steelers have handled Wallace. NO THX. This year the Steelers may lose only Wallace, I dont want Brown AND Sanders in that boat next year.

 

Brown will get the first rd tender and sanders the third nobody will give that up for them

 

Every team would or should give up a 3rd for Sanders. I'd give up a 2nd.

 

I'm sorry, my crystal ball doesn't work that good for me... Can I borrow yours?

 

Forgive me possibly sounding ignorant, but with no one beeating down the door to get Wallace, what does the league know that maybe I don't? Stats wise he was awsome. Some say he is a one trick pony. I'm starting to think we just need to let him go next year (if he doesn't leave this year), and keep Brown and Sanders. That should work, wouldn't it?

 

I agree. I think he is a burner and has alot of talent but in my estimation he is as good as he is going to get. I prefer to have Brown and I predict brown will finish his career as a Steeler

Wallace is a one trick pony as Tomlin so eloquently pointed out.

BMan

 

The league knows that if they sign any other WR, they get to keep their first round pick. Forfeiting a 1st round pick for a player should only be done if you are a Super Bowl contender and this player is the "missing piece." Teams that should give it serious thought are NE and SF, in my opinion. But everybody knows he will be very expensive, and to spend 50+ million dollars on a guy that has never played on your team and give up a first round pick is something that is very very risky, no matter how good he is. A lot of people think Antonio Brown is better. Okay, so suppose next offseason he wants $50 million. Okay, something to think about. Now pretend you have to give up your first round draft pick just to keep him, and there's no guarantee he will be the player he has been in the past, because he'll have a completely different team around him. To me that's an easy call. No way. Now, if the guy is Mike Wallace and my team can throw a great deep ball and needs a deep threat to put us over the top, it might be a tough call. But geez, it's so much to ask that we should all be impressed it's even a possibility!

In any case, I hope we don't decide what we should do based on what other teams do. That would make us the other teams.

 

Yeah, but he was being sarcastic.

 

Well sarcastic or not thats how I feel so I guess my opinion is still the same lol

Bman

 

I think teams especially the pats will pay high for Brown. He is Welker version 2.0

 

First Sanders has to stay healthy to get paid.

The cap is due to go up alot in 2014 when the tv contracts go into affect. Brown to m seems very level headed and wont make a money grab he should get close what garrcon got this year from Washington. Wallace thinks he is worth between the 2 Jacksons and I dont think they pay him that in fact i would rather him play on his 2.7 tender this year Franchise next around 10 see if he developes into a complete wr ove the next 2 seasons while i am paying him 6 mill per.

 

The cap goes up next year as well as the 89% rule.

 

Adam Schefter
New England Patriots announced the signing of unrestricted free agent wide receiver Anthony Gonzalez today.

This may knock them out of the Wallace sweepstakes.

ADDED INFO 8:24PM est 3/17/12
And there's a second wideout added: Patriots have reached agreement with free-agent wide receiver Brandon Lloyd.

 

I do not get the love for Sanders

He IS, again IS unproven. I see some potential, but he has not consistently played.