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Do you want Mike Wallace to be a Phin?

Are you in favor of signing Wallace?

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12 mil/yr for a guy that isn't going to run a full route tree? He's a classic #2 WR imho.
I don't want to be spending a combined 18 mil/yr for 2 #2 WR's, Hartline and Wallace.
And that's not even that good of a tandem imho.
These guys are severely limited to what kind of routes and plays they can do also.
Almost 20 mil/yr for these 2?
I hope not.
 
sirvmac said:
12 mil/yr for a guy that isn't going to run a full route tree? He's a classic #2 WR imho.
I don't want to be spending a combined 18 mil/yr for 2 #2 WR's, Hartline and Wallace.
And that's not even that good of a tandem imho.
These guys are severely limited to what kind of routes and plays they can do also.
Almost 20 mil/yr for these 2?
I hope not.
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Guess Dez Bryant isn't a number 1 too right?
 
kitt23 said:
I don't want 12 mil a yr for a #2 guy
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Number 2 guys don't average 1,100 yards and 8 TDs in the 3 season since his rookie campaign. Those numbers probably would've been higher if he wasn't underutilized in Todd Haley's offense last year.
 
No. Pittsburgh's offensive scheme fits Wallace, Miami's doesn't. It is that simple.
 
Yep, if you are going to run with the big dogs you have to get off the pourch!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
Mike Wallace will be a HOF wide receiver. Why wouldn't somebody want him on their team??????????????
 
TheWalrus said:
I voted no. In my opinion, if Ireland lands Wallace he'll think the WR position is fixed, that he doesn't have to do anymore. That didn't work out too well when we had Brandon Marshall in 2009 and 2010, because Hartline and Bess weren't good enough complimentary pieces then and they still aren't.

The whole position needs an overhaul. If you acquire Jennings you still get the feeling the position gets work and you adjust your long term plans to make him the #2 by drafting potential top WRs in the draft.
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I'm with you. I very much want the Dolphins to bring in Greg Jennings instead, and then draft aggressively on offensive skill positions. Swope in the 2nd is a freaking no brainer, IMO. Start working him in to replace Davone Bess, that will get a lot more speed on the field in a hurry.

You can't bring in one fast guy and say "okay, our glaring issue with team speed is fixed." He's gonna get double teamed, and what if he gets hurt?
 
Yes I do but I'd rather draft Austin and Hopkins. So either way I'm good.
 
I really like Mike Wallace, but unfortunately I'm going to vote "NO". I just don't think he is consistently better than Brandon Marshall or Dwayne Bowe, both of whom are getting paid about the same as Mike Wallace is expected to earn. I realize he is a game changer with speed that kills, but taking into consideration, he will need to learn a new offense that is notoriously hard to learn, I'd much rather spend multiple draft picks on WR's who will get paid much less and are bit younger. I think it would be better served IF Miami were to sign Jennings at a more reasonable contract, who already knows the system, in spite of his age and late injury history.
 
Not worth the price ....big mistake
 
The price of failure is waaaay to high, IMO. You're paying him on the basis he is a fully rounded elite WR, when he isn't. So you're projecting that giving him the payout of his dreams and your coaching will make him that guy. If you're wrong (and I think Wallace has presented a strong case that money means more than winning) you lose tens of millions of dollars, games and the chance of using that money on multiple players to improve your team.

If, by way of comparison, you draft Cordarelle Patterson in the first and take the risk that he's not too dumb or raw to be an NFL player, you run the risk of losing hundreds of thousands of dollars, games and the chance of using that pick on one other player to improve your team.

The cost of failure is a fraction of Wallaces.

Ordinarily, you'd pick up a guy like Wallace because the odds of him being a failure are so much lower than a draftee. The rationale is that the price of failure is irrelevant because the odds of failure are low. In this case, though, I'm not convinced the odds are that different to those Patterson faces.

For that reason, I have doubts that the rumours are really true that we covet Wallace.
 
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