Matt Cassel was definitely overpaid. He made close to what Smith made, but 5 years sooner, when salaries were a lot lower. He has never received close to that money since, and we had to cut him. Whereas, Smith netted us a very good compensation in trade and was given a lot bigger contract than he was making here. Add to that the fact that he had a winning season every year here and capped it off with league leading stats last year, and I will argue that he was worth every penny.
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