Dennis Hickey on Mike Wallace: We were all frustrated at the end of the season

[dolpns13]

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.co...were-all-frustrated-at-the-end-of-the-season/

Dolphins General Manager Dennis Hickey didn’t delve too deeply into specifics during a Wednesday meeting with the media at the NFL scouting combine, but he did confirm that he recently metwith wide receiver Mike Wallace.
Hickey said he had a “good conversation” with Wallace, who ended the regular season on the bench after a reported blowup with coaches during the team’s final game of the season and has rarely seemed thrilled with his role on the team’s offense. That’s led to speculation that the Dolphins might try to move Wallace and his $9.9 million salary, something Hickey wouldn’t comment on beyond saying that everyone on the team was down at the end of a losing season.
“For all of us, as the season unfolded and late in the year, we were all frustrated about how the season ended,” Hickey said, via ESPN.com. “That’s what we’re focused on now: addressing, confronting the reality of where we’re at, and how do we get to where we want to be. That’s what we spent the last five or six weeks looking at hard and talking through and working together in a collaborative fashion to try to work through that, because the goal is to be better.”
Releasing Wallace wouldn’t free up much money under the cap and would take a player who scored 10 times off the roster. Wallace, meanwhile, would probably have a hard time finding the same salary coming off his two years with the Dolphins, so it might be in everyone’s best interests to find a way to make it work for another season.



They were all frustrated at the end of the season but decided to keep the main contributor as to why we had no post season - Phailbin.

 

[TKAllDay]

I don't know what we should do anymore

 

[AquaInferno]

Keep Wallace. My guess is he plays his ass off in what will be a glorified tryout year. Just keep him one more year and add depth to the position this and next offseason. The only WR anyone should be confident in is Jarvis the rest are ehhh including Wallace and his lack of heart. He needs to see the wizard.

Philbin is a terrible coach so I suspect a lot of frustration stems from an inability to beat good teams. That GB game still haunts me, that and the Denver meltdown.

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[Sons Of Shula]

**** Wallace.

 

[SkapePhin]

I think we should keep Wallace but prepare for his replacement. We need to draft at LEAST 1 WR (preferably a big body receiver) in the first 2 rounds. Ideally we would also draft a speed guy in the mid late rounds. This way we could rebuild the WR corps but still have some vets around.

Wallace will just have to eat his frustration during the year, and he should be content knowing it will be his last if he is unhappy again.

 

[Spesh]

“For all of us, as the season unfolded and late in the year, we were all frustrated about how the season ended,” Hickey said, via ESPN.com.

Not all:

 

[I am Bane]

we obviously have to keep wallace... this article thing is what we have been talking about and I have been saying for as long as these threads have been going thrashing Wallace, and Philbin and Hickey.

but in the end... we need Wallace, we need this patched up, we need him for 2015. In the long future we will see, but expect him to be playing for us next year for many reasons.

 

[Phinatic8u]

Miami is keeping Wallace.

 

[mnphinfan]

I think Wallace will be back and I want him back. I think this quote shows that the FO/staff understands Wallace's frustrations, they just don't like the way he expressed them. I think this is true as well when he also says that players need to be able to get along. Almost trying to coerce Tannehill and Wallace to put aside their differences and work together.

 

[danstilldaman]

**** wallace I despise him, what I can't see is how he's irreplaceable. If he gets Tannehill's approval then I believe it's worth reconciliation but I've seen nothing from our franchise quarterback that shows that. Landry imo is a breath of fresh air with everything he does. He's our future why hasn't he came out to endorse Wallace instead he states he is a number one, writings on the wall. Don't care about the ten touchdowns it can be replaced by a community of players. On here everyday truly don't understand how Wallace is supported.

 

[hoops]

If they were all frustrated they should have been with the oline protection wise and the personnel decisions they made themselves on it after albert went down...

 

[whizafriz]

Keep Wallace. My guess is he plays his ass off in what will be a glorified tryout year.

He absolutely has to, or he'll be nothing but serious locker-room cancer when he hits the market -- not gettin the big bucks that way.

 

[Vaark]

Wallace is staying.. I'm pretty sure (and pleased cuz I'd hate to lose him over him going ballistic for 1/32nd of the season)

 

[Krush]

Sometimes a upgrade means consistency and longevity, I would keep everyone in place and demand that they play better, because everytime you change it means another evaluation, so let those guys on the o-line stay to earn their keep, maybe a different coach could help the situation, they always pluging holes up from 2 years ago and never really draft future talent, look at the old 49er's, new England, and even the old dolphins team those players was there forever, when guy have a bad year in this age "he needs to be replaced" but if you stuck with him and stop wasting draft picks I would think you could maintain a team instead of rebuilding every single year.

 

[39wildman]

GM good move, keep Wallace fix other hole on team like og, fb, cb,ng and fs. if we cant find og draft center. place best five on oline again....