Ike Taylor trying to talk some sense into Mike Wallace

Ike Taylor is the man, good football player, good person, keeps it real. Also a very good teammate, one of the few players that has always supported Ben Roethlisberger over the years. On Tuesday, during his weekly show on TribLive Radio, Taylor spoke about Wallace's state of mind. “There is a lot of frustration with Mike right now,” Taylor said via the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review's Mark Kaboly. “He wants to be here. ... But at the same time he wants his paper. Mike feels like he outperformed his last contract. But he's dealing with a monster, and that's the Pittsburgh Steelers … they are not going to let you dictate to them on how you feel.”

Taylor then went on to say that Wallace should show up for the workouts during the offseason since new offensive coordinator Todd Haley is installing a new playbook into the offense. Of course that would mean that Wallace would have to break his selfish ways.

Lastly Taylor dropped this bomb on Wallace; "Football don't need you, you need football" when talking about Wallace. Amen Ike, amen. Football does not need Wallace, just like Ike Taylor does not need grammar.

Anyways.

Wallace has until June 15 to sign his tender or the Steelers could reduce his 2012 salary to $577,000. You would think Wallace would want to avoid making just $577,000 this year, he could at least make $2.7 million with the tender. Hey Mike, you have to pay for those jetskis somehow.

Reportedly, Wallace was asking for over $100 million. Keep on dreaming Mike. Realistically, the Steelers should offer Wallace a 5-6 year deal worth around $50-60 million. Load the contract up with incentives and give him a big signing bonus. If the Steelers do that and Wallace turns it down then he's a bigger Assclown than I though.

Hopefully Taylor knocked some sense into Wallace, but I doubt it. Wallace is a "me" guy who wants way more money than he's worth. Welcome to the NFL, welcome to America. Swaggin.