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Found this interesting... my best friend is married to Vikings fan. Lol...
While in Miami, Wallace started 16 games in each of his 2 seasons here. He had career highs in targets and tied a career high in TDs. In 2014, he was targeted 115 times and caught 67 passes for 862 yards, a 12.9 YPR, 10 TDs, 53.9 YPG. He was not a good receiver here, nor a good fit. There were heated debates about his practice habits and selfishness and effort in games and how his struggles were the fault of the QB. Anyway, he was supposed to be a stud in Minny with Teddy Tinyhands... instead, he was a disaster in Minny. He started 12 games, was targeted 72 times and caught a career low 39 passes for equally career lows of 473 yards and 2 TDs while being outplayed in every way by 5th round rookie Stefon Diggs.
Yesterday, Jim Miller and Pat Kirwan were talking about Bridgewater and his deep ball "issues" - how much of a failure he's been with it, and the issues of connecting with Mike Wallace. They discussed Bridgewater's mechanics needing some tuning, then they moved on to Wallace. In their opinion, he's just not a good WR. They pointed out the fact that Pittsburgh offered him a take it or leave it contract and made no concentrated effort to keep him, then he went on to Miami and struggled like he did his last season in PB and now he's struggling in Minnesota to make deep ball connections.
During their breakdown on Wallace, they pointed out how QB's struggle to adjust to his speed as he's an erratic runner as he never runs routes or plays the same way twice and because he doesn't "use his speed properly". He just runs... They talked about his poor routes. How often times on his deep routes he just runs down the field, and lets the DB's rub him off his spots. Kirwan was very critical of him running too close to the sidelines and not giving QB's a chance to hit him deep, because placement of the ball downfield like that is extremely difficult and when the WR is too close to the sideline, he's eliminated a good chunk of space to drop the ball in. They also pointed out his inability to adjust to the ball in the air, and discussed briefly whether that's because he runs undisciplined routes.
While in Miami, Wallace started 16 games in each of his 2 seasons here. He had career highs in targets and tied a career high in TDs. In 2014, he was targeted 115 times and caught 67 passes for 862 yards, a 12.9 YPR, 10 TDs, 53.9 YPG. He was not a good receiver here, nor a good fit. There were heated debates about his practice habits and selfishness and effort in games and how his struggles were the fault of the QB. Anyway, he was supposed to be a stud in Minny with Teddy Tinyhands... instead, he was a disaster in Minny. He started 12 games, was targeted 72 times and caught a career low 39 passes for equally career lows of 473 yards and 2 TDs while being outplayed in every way by 5th round rookie Stefon Diggs.
Yesterday, Jim Miller and Pat Kirwan were talking about Bridgewater and his deep ball "issues" - how much of a failure he's been with it, and the issues of connecting with Mike Wallace. They discussed Bridgewater's mechanics needing some tuning, then they moved on to Wallace. In their opinion, he's just not a good WR. They pointed out the fact that Pittsburgh offered him a take it or leave it contract and made no concentrated effort to keep him, then he went on to Miami and struggled like he did his last season in PB and now he's struggling in Minnesota to make deep ball connections.
During their breakdown on Wallace, they pointed out how QB's struggle to adjust to his speed as he's an erratic runner as he never runs routes or plays the same way twice and because he doesn't "use his speed properly". He just runs... They talked about his poor routes. How often times on his deep routes he just runs down the field, and lets the DB's rub him off his spots. Kirwan was very critical of him running too close to the sidelines and not giving QB's a chance to hit him deep, because placement of the ball downfield like that is extremely difficult and when the WR is too close to the sideline, he's eliminated a good chunk of space to drop the ball in. They also pointed out his inability to adjust to the ball in the air, and discussed briefly whether that's because he runs undisciplined routes.
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