Mike Wallace Back on the Trading Block

[Merchant]

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap300...-trading-block

Well that didn't work out too well for the fins

[ALLD]

I would laugh my ass off if they cut him.

[st33lersguy]

Wonder what steeldawg thinks, lol

[86WARD]

Eagles are rumored,to be looking to trade for a WR...

[steelreserve]

So ... seems we're at about Step 11 in the process. Sorry the part about the pass rusher was off by a couple of years, but now that they have Suh, we should get a chance to see that develop on its own. Unfortunately, someone will probably give him a little more money in Step 13, but come on, I'm doing the best I can here for a 2 1/2 year old prediction.

http://www.steelersuniverse.com/foru...l=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.

[Merchant]

^^^ Pretty spot-on prediction. Bravo.

[polamalubeast]

Report: Mike Wallace likely to be traded to Vikings


http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com...ed-to-vikings/

[steelreserve]

Hmm .. if it's a trade, then it seems like his mega-contract will still be in place. Oh well. The first 11 in a row isn't too bad.

Although it's only been two seasons so far on that contract - give him another year and he might still fuck it up, and become that guy who gets cut in the middle of the season and then has a different team every year on progressively smaller deals.