Brown makes sure Steelers don't miss Wallace

[zulater]

By Ed Bouchette / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

For all the player defections and all the problems that led to their 1-4 start this season, one player the Steelers do not miss is wide receiver Mike Wallace.
Not the way Antonio Brown is playing, they do not.
Brown not only is back from what was, for him, a disappointing 2012 season, he leads the AFC in receiving yards per game and has become so important to the Steelers they have devised new ways to deploy him.
His performance has blown away the one Wallace has displayed in Miami after the Dolphins acquired him for $60 million over five years.
Brown leads the AFC with an average of 99.6 yards receiving and 8.3 receptions per game. He has 41 catches for 498 yards and two touchdowns.


Wallace? He's not exactly lighting things up for the Dolphins with 22 receptions for 281 yards and one touchdown after leaving the Steelers as a free agent this year.

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The Steelers may not miss him, but we know someone here who sure does! :chuckle: :heh: :wink02:

[steelreserve]

So by the way ... how far along are we in this process?

http://www.steelersuniverse.com/forums/showthread.php/13719-Ed-Trading-Wallace-Best-for-Both-Sides?p=297757&viewfull=1#post297757


That's the funny thing about receivers. They still don't get how this works. How many times have we seen this play out:

1. Squawk about how much money you deserve to be paid
2. Fine, you get your $10M a year contract by leaving in FA or bitching and moaning enough to force a trade
3. Your new team can't fill other obvious needs because you and one other guy, usually a pass rusher, are taking up a sixth of the salary cap space
4. The team has a bad year
5. Your numbers go way down as a result of #4
6. You're labeled a guy who took it easy after getting the big contract
7. You complain that you aren't getting the ball enough; the pass rusher complains about how he's being used
9. You're labeled a malcontent
10. You make it two or three years through your big contract, and are then cut or traded as a disappointment
11. You never see the big-money years at the end of the big contract
11a. It turns out your big contract was more like 3 years and $18M, so the joke's on you
11b. You sure still spend your money like you were on a $50M contract, though! Any day you're going to get another one.
12. You hire a new personal trainer and vow to come back better than ever
13. You end up signing a one-year prove-it deal for $1M and are kept on a short leash
14. You don't do well enough for another big contract
15. Repeat for rest of your career (which is either next major injury or next time you have a bad season and are labeled a malcontent)
16. See 11b. You're broke!
17. People laugh at you for being another dumb NFL guy who wasted his talent and squandered his money

Your agent doesn't care about any of this, by the way. He already got his money, and he has other clients.

THAT is the kind of thing that guys like Brown or Ward understood, and most diva WRs do not.

[Steeldude]

The Steelers may not miss him, but we know someone here who sure does! :chuckle: :heh: :wink02:

Lol...could it be the same person who misses Mendenhall?

[HollywoodSteel]

One thing I love about you, Zu... You love to start trouble. :drink:

[Mojouw]

Still say it would be better to have Wallace running under deep balls from Ben than Sanders. But I also understand they likely could have never afforded both Brown and Wallace. I will also have to admit that I did not expect this type of performance from Brown. He has been dominant as the unquestioned #1.

This leads to my biggest Steelers related question right now...how can they keep getting it "right" with some positions/players and then be so inept at identifying, drafting, developing, and coaching line talent? It is the same front office and scouting department...or do we outsource or line scouting to a set of blind men from the 1950's?

[Dwinsgames]

http://www.steelersuniverse.com/forums/images/misc/quote_icon.png Originally Posted by steelreserve http://www.steelersuniverse.com/forums/images/buttons/viewpost-right.png (http://www.steelersuniverse.com/forums/showthread.php?p=297757#post297757) That's the funny thing about receivers. They still don't get how this works. How many times have we seen this play out:

1. Squawk about how much money you deserve to be paid
2. Fine, you get your $10M a year contract by leaving in FA or bitching and moaning enough to force a trade
3. Your new team can't fill other obvious needs because you and one other guy, usually a pass rusher, are taking up a sixth of the salary cap space
4. The team has a bad year
5. Your numbers go way down as a result of #4
6. You're labeled a guy who took it easy after getting the big contract
7. You complain that you aren't getting the ball enough; the pass rusher complains about how he's being used
9. You're labeled a malcontent
10. You make it two or three years through your big contract, and are then cut or traded as a disappointment
11. You never see the big-money years at the end of the big contract
11a. It turns out your big contract was more like 3 years and $18M, so the joke's on you
11b. You sure still spend your money like you were on a $50M contract, though! Any day you're going to get another one.
12. You hire a new personal trainer and vow to come back better than ever
13. You end up signing a one-year prove-it deal for $1M and are kept on a short leash
14. You don't do well enough for another big contract
15. Repeat for rest of your career (which is either next major injury or next time you have a bad season and are labeled a malcontent)
16. See 11b. You're broke!
17. People laugh at you for being another dumb NFL guy who wasted his talent and squandered his money

Your agent doesn't care about any of this, by the way. He already got his money, and he has other clients.

THAT is the kind of thing that guys like Brown or Ward understood, and most diva WRs do not. funny stuff , what is sad is its all true

[steelreserve]

funny stuff , what is sad is its all true

Heh... that was over a year ago, too. If only I could do the same thing with the stock market.

[tube517]

You guys just have no patience. Cody Wallace will soon dominate the trenches. Lev'ion Brown did nothing for us. :chuckle:

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[ALLD]

Brown was money well spent and could become the top face of the franchise on offense after BB.

[LLT]

Brown was money well spent and could become the top face of the franchise on offense after BB.

Exactly. The return of Heath has forced safeties to stay honest and not play high on Brown . They want to cheat...Heath will make them pay the price. They stay home... and Brown takes advantage of the CB. Brown has become a game changer.