APMike Wallace will not be walking through the Pittsburgh Steelers' training camp door anytime soon. That's what I take from these comments from Steelers general manager Kevin Colbert, who says the Steelers and Mike Wallace aren't even in contact.

Colbert was recently on 93.7 The Fan in Pittsburgh. Here's what he shared about Wallace, via Sports Radio Interviews:

"Yeah, there's really no contact. Mike knows where things stand. The next step for him really is to report and to sign his tender, and until that happens, there won't be anything else. And if that happens, nobody knows where it will go from there. So that's where it is and has been, and hopefully it comes to an end sooner rather than later because it will be good for us, but it will also be good for Mike."

"Mike" evidently disagrees, because he hasn't shown up, and doesn't appear to have any intention of signing that tender. The Steelers, as Colbert makes clear, have no intention of giving Wallace the deal he wants. In fact, they gave the contract they originally offered to Wallace to Antonio Brown, instead.

That leaves a hole at wide receiver, and might that mean that the Steelers would look in the direction of free agent Plaxico Burress?

APAnother day, another training camp fight. This one, coming out of New York Jets camp, might actually border on being newsworthy, though.

No, Tim Tebow and Mark Sanchez did not start swinging at each others' faces. That would probably break the Internet and force ESPN to launch a new ESPNTebow channel. It was Joe McKnight and D'Anton Lynn who got into it. The participants weren't what made it newsworthy, though — it was the size and location of the brawl.

Here's more from Donald Lappe at Jets 101.

The brawl at New York Jets practice today started when D'Anton Lynn (son of RBs coach Anthony Lynn) shoved Joe McKnight out of bounds after a screen pass. McKnight fired the ball at Lynn and the two started fighting. The offensive and defensive players ran over, trampling over the advertisement boards on the sidelines and creating a massive pile with around 20 Jets involved. It was right near the fans who attended practice and Rex Ryan actually ran over and started pulling players out of the pile.

Cool. This would've been a pretty good day to attend Jets training camp.

APAfter just four years in the league, former second-round draft pick Devin Thomas has gotten all he needs out of football. He's walking away from the game.

He announced it himself on Twitter.

I have decided to retire from the NFL.

God has blessed me w achieving a childhood dream. I want to give back to my hometown and coach/mentor kids so they can reach their own. 1LUV.

With youth, health and a seemingly assured roster spot, Thomas' retirement comes out of nowhere.

He said he wants to help kids reach their dreams, which is admirable and wonderful, but, via the New York Daily News, his reasons seem to bounce around a bit, too. It doesn't seem like he loves the lifestyle and he fears long-term damage from injury.

"What am I risking when I step onto the field?" he said. "Do I want to be in a position where I can't play with my kids? Do I want to end up leaving the game with all kinds of brain damage where I can't remember things? It's a good time for me to step away.

"I'm at a good age where I'm still healthy," he added. "I had my own injuries that I can account to, when I almost thought I broke my neck, concussions. Everybody glorifies this game, says it's so great. It's definitely something people put you on a plateau. But they don't understand the sacrifices you make personally. As a young man that understands the bigger picture, I know this game doesn't define me."

No, it sure doesn't, and that's good, because his career wasn't particularly memorable.

APThe Arizona Cardinals didn't do much to upgrade the quarterback position this offseason. The improvement would come, they were hoping, from the increased health, comfort and efficiency of one Kevin Kolb. The team gave Kolb a six-year, $65 million contract before the 2011 season, but Kolb played in just nine games and struggled throughout his first season as an NFL starter.

The idea was that in his second year in Ken Whisenhunt's system, Kolb would pay dividends by running a more dynamic offense.

By that standard, Sunday night's Hall of Fame Game was a disaster. The New Orleans Saints beat the Cardinals, 17-10, in the 2012 preseason opener at Fawcett Stadium in Canton, Ohio. Kolb completed one pass for 4 yards and had an interception.

Kolb looked uncomfortable and inefficient before leaving the game injured. His first pass was intercepted. Kolb was looking for Andre Roberts on a 10-yard out that didn't seem to have nearly the necessary velocity. Malcolm Jenkins stepped in front of it and picked it.

Two incompletions followed, and then Kolb, with the pocket collapsing, ran for his life in his own end zone before unloading a short, desperate completion to fullback Anthony Sherman. Kolb suffered a bruised rib on the play and didn't come back.

Then, on the way off the field, he may or may not have snubbed John Skelton on an attempted fist bump. I'll give Kolb the benefit of the doubt on that one and say he didn't see Skelton until it was too late for knuckle bumping. So there's a positive, Cards fans. Kolb might not be very good, but he also might not be a complete jerk. Optimism!

Getty ImagesI guess the saturation of the Chick-fil-A controversy/reaction is about as thorough as it can get now that we'll be discussing it on an NFL blog. Lions linebacker Justin Durant made it so.

How, you ask? He said on Twitter that he'd still eat at Chick-fil-A even if the owner said he supported slavery.

Now, I know that "Chick-fil-A" and "slavery" were just in the same sentence on the Internet, but please, try to keep the contents of your brain inside your cranium. It'll be OK. We'll go through a string of Justin Durant tweets from Wednesday, one by one, and see how we got here.

@JDurant52
What happened w/ Chick-Fil-A?

So evidently, Justin Durant is not a regular watcher of the news. That's OK. News is overrated. Someone filled him about the fast food chain's chief operation officer's comments condemning gay marriage, so Durant, now armed with information, was ready to comment.

@JDurant52
Chick-Fil-A not even open on Sunday how people shocked that the owner feels that way?

A perfectly reasonable question.

@JDurant52
So people not gon get the best chicken sammich and lemonade on the planet because of a personal belief? Word?

Word. That's exactly what people are doing. Some people see it as one COO's personal belief, some people see it as hate speech, but yes, there's been quite a reaction. Many people are, in fact, giving up the much-heralded sammich.

And then someone compared the situation to slavery, because this is the Internet, and that's what people on the Internet do. Here comes the money tweet.

@JDurant52
Chicken too tasty RT @ThatStatBoy: @JDurant52 Would you boycott Chick Fil A if the owner came out and said slavery was a good idea?

Oh boy.

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The two thoughts expressed in the headline are unrelated.

Starting with the green hair, CSN Philly talked to Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie about it Thursday (video available at that link). They call it a mohawk, a term to which I object. If you want to say you have a mowhawk, you've got to shave that head and leave a stripe in the middle. As a society we can tolerate no mohawk half-stepping, because it's just too disrespectful to Mr. T.

That doesn't mean Cromartie doesn't look good. I think the green suits him. And he certainly pulled no punches with his choice of shade. Via Larry Brown Sports, he explains the origins a bit:

"It goes back to OTAs," Rodgers-Cromartie told CSN Philly. "Me and Nnamdi were growing our hair. We were like 'let's do something crazy.' So he came in with a hi-top (fade). At first I thought it was a joke, but he was like 'come on, D, you gotta do something.' So I went with the green mohawk."

Again, not a mohawk. But that's OK. As well as he's been playing in training camp, he can call it an exothermic perm, and no one's going to quibble. The Eagles have finally moved him from the slot back to the outside, a more natural position for him. The move agrees with him. From Philly.com:

"It's hard to throw against him," quarterback Michael Vick lamented Thursday. "He's fast, man. He can jump routes, quick, smart. It's clear he should have been on the outside last year."

Hmmm. It's almost like the Eagles had a really inexperienced defensive coordinator last season. But that's all right, I'm sure he won't be back this — what's that? He will be? Oh.

Getty ImagesSince 2000, Frank Caliendo has been a staple on the "Fox NFL Sunday" pregame show, and if a comedian can be judged by how many of his jokes Terry Bradshaw gets, Caliendo is going out a legend.

He announced on Twitter and on Facebook that he won't be back with "Fox NFL Sunday" in 2012.

To everyone asking about the FOX pregame. I will not be back this coming season. It was great to be part of the team with Terry and the guys for the last 9 years, but it's time to move on. I have a couple of upcoming ventures that look like they may be pretty cool... And as soon as I can tell you more about them-- I definitely will. More soon!

I have to wonder if this is the best move for Frank Caliendo. No one in the history of comedy has ever had an audience more predisposed to laughter than Caliendo had. A Volkswagen full of stoned hyenas watching the Three Stooges while being tickled by Antonio Alfonseca is not as eager to laugh as the trio of Terry Bradshaw, Jimmy Johnson and Michael Strahan. If you're a comedian, it's got to be hard to walk away from that.

Getty ImagesKentwan Balmer, (likely soon to be ex-) defensive end for the Washington Redskins, is missing, at least to the Redskins coaching staff. He hasn't shown up for training camp practices two days in a row.

Redskins officials found his hotel room cleared out, save for one Redskins sweatshirt. Teammate Lorenzo Alexander says that Balmer simply "decided to leave."

Here's what Mike Shanahan had to say on Thursday afternoon:

"Haven't found anything out yet. If you get a hold of him, let me know," Shanahan said. "You're always concerned. You're just hoping he's OK. He cleared everything out of the hotel, and that usually means, at least from my past experience, is that the guy doesn't want to play football anymore."

Yeah, I'd say that's a pretty safe bet. At the very least, he doesn't want to play football anymore for the Redskins. And that's fine — not everyone has to play football. Not everyone wants to play football. I don't want to play football. Just, maybe, you know … leave a note.