The Sports Monitor

You're a rookie safety and you're about to go up against the best receiver in the NFL. What do you do? Call him out of course. That's what the Baltimore Ravens' Matt Elam did to the Detroit Lions' Calvin Johnson. Elam called Megatron pretty old. Why fire up Johnson before the game? Athletes can really, really be dumb sometimes.

Who's the best wide receiver in the NFL? Calvin Johnson, Larry Fitzgerald, Greg Jennings and Andre Johnson come to mind. Mike Wallace? He's not in that company yet. If a Sacramento Bee report is correct, Wallace wants to be paid more than Fitzgerald. We're talking more than the eight-year, $120 million deal Fitz signed last year. That's some serious cash. It good be good news for the Steelers keeping Wallace in 2012. It's bad news when he's an unrestricted free agent.