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Mike Wallace ‘Needs The Rock’ More Often: ‘I Don’t Play To Block’

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While the Baltimore Ravens are off to a relatively hot start, winners of their first two games, not all is well in the land of crab cakes, particularly on the offensive side of the ball. As if losing their best player, guard Marshal Yanda were not bad enough, now perhaps they may have to contend with the latent diva traits of wide receiver Mike Wallace.

While he hastened to note that he was smiling throughout the exchange, ESPN reporter Jamison Hensley noted during a group interview yesterday that the former Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver said no fewer than seven times that he “needs the rock”; that is, he is not happy with the number of touches and targets he is seeing.