As has been said, his skillset is going to be hard to replace. He had a bit of a James Hasty attitude he brought to playing CB. JH was a rocked up 6' 200 lb corner and would jack a WR in the mouth and toss his ass out of bounds on the opening drive to send a message. Smith has a reach and bigger frame to play like that and you can't just line up a safety sized CB out there and expect it to work. He's a better version of Dave Thomas of the Giants from 10 or so years ago. Not the KFC dude. And like Thomas he probably won't make a conversion to Safety like a Charles Woodson, Rod Woodson, etc did in their careers. So I can see not wanting to get into the risk of handing out a long term deal with knowing age will more than likely catch up with him before that contract runs out.

Motivation can be brought up as in 2014, Parker was starting ahead of him in OTA's and heading into camp. Part of that was probably them being pissed with the DWI but the other part was a flat out benching to get him to step up his game. And he took it in stride and did. Ideally, working a LTD with Berry and Franchising Smith would have been great but i'm not going to rag on Dorsey for that. Is what it is. They got a unique player that's going to help them and we had a unique situation with so many contracts with starters that were due

Pretty remarkable what ET and Al Harris have done coaching up the DB's. Glad Harris is there to hopefully take over when Emmitt retires. Tommy Brasher too on the DL. Guy is like 75 and coaching the hell out of the DL. Good for young Brit Reid to learn from as well as the players. Damn excited to see Howard resigned and sticking around. He developed here even though KC didn't draft him. Was a gifted present on the waiver wire from Seattle's stacked roster, just like Parker, and good on Dorsey, Ballard, and Will Lewis coming from Seattle himself, to identify those guys.

They kept Marcus Cooper last year and could have easily have cut him. He's got a chance for some snaps somewhere, possibly even safety, if he's got his confidence back and it's not shot. There's still something to work with there IMO and if any staff is going to get it out of him it's ET and Harris

I do too. All the physical talent you could ask for. A little durability and we could have a diamond in the rough.

Those bastards got Hudson and now Smith :shake:
Revenge for Marcus Allen I guess! ROFL

I wanted him here but I'm guessing he has 2 years before he hits a wall. I also think our O style is more quick cuts, etc. Smith is great at defending back shoulder, down the field, etc. but we don't do much of that(although we should)

We better have a good player to fill his shoes, because this defense looked like shit without him.

4 years 40 million was cheaper than I thought he would go for.

Both Eli Apple and William Jackson look so appealing now. Kendall Fuller looks good too but these 2 are my favorite guys to replace Sean.

You're right - it sure did and that contract was not over the top at all....The way the contract was structured, it made it harder for the Chiefs to do. Of course a big signing bonus could have made it work and Smith is young enough that he probably has the years left to spread that out. I'd have done it the same way with signing all the other players first too. Bottom line was he was a priority, but not their top one. Let's see who they get in his place. I don't think Dorsey will go the Stanford Routt, route. They know how important TWO good starting CB's are in Sutton's defense.

Look he's from Passdena he wanted to be near home we would've had to way overpay to keep him. Am I little worried yes we did look bad the two games without him. However Peters was only in his first couple of games. Gaines looked good before he got injured in that game. Dorsey is a great GM trust him he knows our weaknesses. He will fix them. I maybe a blind homer but I agree with Jaye Howard there is something special bout this team.

We better be focused and ready to get multiple guys as possible replacements for Sean Smith.


We are boned without 2 guys on the outside that can single coverage consistently. :(

Sutton needs single coverage on the outside so he can play his multiple safety zone on the inside.