MIKE WALLACE is a dominant speed WR. If he can be had for anything less than a 1st, MIAMI MUST DO IT. But, also consider the following:
(1) Everyone's saying unload GATES if we get MIKE. I say WRONG!!!!!!!! With OCHO and MIKE, we would have enough veteran WRs, when you throw in BESS and HARTLINE. So, the way I see it, don't say MIKE OR GATES: rather, say MIKE AND GATES, and start GATES out running back KOs, where he showed definite flashes last season. After all, why risk LAMAR or REGGIE on KRs? NAANEE would be the one I'd cut. QED!!!
(2) MIAMI could have "caproom" any time it wants/needs it. I myself am NO CAPOLOGIST. But a few months ago, in the spirit of the times, I did a "straight line", NO GIMMICKS, restructure of JAKE's contract, extending him a year w/an option year, and costing him less that $500,000 cash to do it. I freed up $1.9 Million in caproom, while giving JAKE virtually as much $$ and even more security. I did similarly well w/FASANO, DANSBY, and a couple others. I figure that, just for "openers", restructuring some of our biggest salaries could save MIAMI c. $8+ Million. So, along w/some simple cuts of PARCELLS-like/unneeded/overpaid players, all of a sudden the "cap" poses NO problem at all.
(3) We could perhaps recoup the Draft Pick by trading BESS. While I like his ability as the consummate "possession WR" A LOT, someone else might be willing to pay for that ability w/a 2nd or 3rd. The alternative is HARTLINE, who's bigger and faster, but he wouldn't net MIAMI as much.
(4) WALLACE=B MARSHALL? NOT!!!-- It doesn't appear that MIKE WALLACE is anything like the diva-cancer that B MARSHALL was. B MARSHALL demanded "the lion's share" of both practice "reps" and game "targets". And he whined/bellyached/threw fits if he didn't get them. As a result, i/m/o, he stunted the development of not only WALLACE/PRUITT/MOORE/GATES, but BESS and HARTLINE as well. I have read NOTHING like that about MIKE WALLACE: he just wants to get paid, having established what he brings to the table. And MARSHALL even threw his own QB, MOORE, under the bus, even though MOORE even made him viable as a deep threat. Fancy that! B MARSHALL, and even BESS (45 yard "post" over tight coverage), as deep threats, and having Mr. Diva thank you by throwing you under the bus. I don't see anything like that from MIKE WALLACE. Did I mention that I'm glad that MARSHALL's gone?
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