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booger · 03-11-2016, 02:10 AM

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

03-11-2016, 02:10 AM	#226
booger Don't Tug on Superman's Cape Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: clear out in the sticks Casino cash: $-2171450	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 __________________ 1 Thessalonians 5:3 “For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.” KJV
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