Dave Bolland Jersey Steelers confident they still hold cards in Wallace standoff

As noted in this space last week, Pittsburgh officials aren't quite comfortable yet with the specter that Mike Wallace will return. But as the clock winds down on restricted free agency, they're feeling better than they were a month ago, and understand they hold most of the trump cards if the speedy wideout doesn't sign an offer sheet with another club by next Friday's deadline. They also realize that they saw some hint of petulance from Wallace over the second half of last season -- when his numbers were significantly reduced, as detailed here in recent weeks -- and plan to address that when/if the three-year veteran returns. His deep speed aside, Wallace doesn't fight much for the ball, doesn't come back to it very often, and isn't particularly physical. There is a not-so-subtle reason,Dave Bolland Jersey, besides chiding Wallace good-naturedly, that coach Mike Tomlin inserts the needle by frequently referring to the wideout as a one-trick pony. Make no mistake: Tomlin and general manager Kevin Colbert want Wallace back, preferably with a long-term deal, but at their price. Some high-ranking team executives? Well, they're a little more ambivalent, and aren't thrilled by the fact Wallace's camp has manufactured restricted free agency interest in him, and this week leaked to the media two items that are dubious: the notion that there are still some clubs that would trade for Wallace, at a price less than the first-round compensation an offer sheet transaction would require,Mario Lemieux Jersey, and that he has no intention of singing the one-year, $2.7 million tender made to him. Of course, if Wallace doesn't sign the tender by June 15, the Steelers have the option of reducing it to 110 percent of Wallace's base salary from last year, which they will do. Such a move would cost Wallace about $2.1 million.

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