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S. Smith's Contract: Extend During or After the Season? Let him Walk? Tag him?

What to do with SS contract?

  • Extend DURING the Season ($8 to $10 Mil per year)

    Votes: 19 37.3%

  • Extend AFTER the Season ($10 to $12 Mil per year)

    Votes: 9 17.6%

  • Let him walk if he wont take hometown discount

    Votes: 10 19.6%

  • Extend Long, Tag Smith ($11 Mil - 1 year)

    Votes: 4 7.8%

  • Other

    Votes: 9 17.6%
  • Total voters
    51
What has he done to derserve a huge cantract?
ROY?
Probowl?
ALL anything?
Defensive player of the year?
Captain?
Heisman hopeful
Led the league in???????
Led the team in ??????
 
I'm a bit perplexed with the situation. I know he's supposedly altering his image to be more mature but I also find it odd that he chose to do so in his contract year. We all know he has hands of stone and is afraid of contact, and I fear that he will try and have a breakout year to increase his salary. Just hope that doesn't translate to a drop off in production for years to come, should the Dolphins decide to extend him
 
This is a frustrating situation. You want a guy to give you something (overperform, basically) before you pay him big time (see: Wake, Cameron). If you're paying big money by the time he produces, you've lost much of the benefit of drafting over signing a free agent.

Smith has always irritated me. Done basically nothing, then decides to turn it on for a contract because he and his agent know he'll get paid based on his size with even average production. We'll see how he does, but if he has a modest year (good but not great) he can walk. Though I don't know much about how the DB class looks next draft...
 
Sean Smith is always camp MVP let's see what the real games bring! Besides that tag is for Long.
 
Heinegrabber said:
What has he done to derserve a huge cantract?
ROY?
Probowl?
ALL anything?
Defensive player of the year?
Captain?
Heisman hopeful
Led the league in???????
Led the team in ??????
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Making grass angels.
 
Make both Smith and Davis earn better contracts. Neither of the two have lived up to their draft status. I'm probably spoiled from watching Madison and Surtain all those years.
 
Phinatic8u said:
People said the same about big Paul. He's still dominate with a new contract.
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Every player is different. Thus far, SS has displayed a lack of either skill or effort in his career. If he doesn't perform at near pro-bowl level this year (his contract year), nothing's going to make him better and our team is better off to let him go or resign him on the cheap after the season. If he DOES play much better all season, offer him an incentive laden contract. If he refuses, let him go see if he can find someone else who will trust him to play near that level again.

I think, in Paul S.'s case, the coaches knew his slow progress was not due to a lack of effort, but actually a result of a slow learning curve at his position. Therefore, they felt they could trust him to continue to put forth a maximum effort when offered a new big contract.
 
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the problem if you let smith walk is you create another hole that you must fill either as a starting boundary cb or your nickle if you move say a marshall from there...boundary and nickle are critical positions you must fill...and if you go that route in the draft boundary corners especially but corners period they fly off the shelf...you can never have enough of them so you have to be ready to burn a high round pick on the position...and even then you got to deal with the inconsistencies of a rookie
 
foozool13 said:
Looks like Sean Smith is tearing it up in camp this year. He lost a bunch of weight too (24 lbs) and has been balling it up. Do you guys think we should extend him during the season or let him hit FA and press our luck? Corners are a BIG item in FA and they go fast, so I expect someone to shell out a lot of $ for this him if he his FA. And believe me someone WILL shell out a lot of $ for a big corner like SS.

In comparison, this offseason Brandon Carr got 5 year $50 Mil and last year Nnamdi Asomugha got 5 years $60 Mil. So SS will want something around $10 to $12 Million per year (assuming no hometown discount).

Another option I think could and is more likely to happen is that we extend Long (Joe Thomas got 7 years $84 Mil, $12Mil per year) - who would get $15.36 million if we tag him instead (120% of his 2012 cap number of $12.8 million) - and then tag SS ($10.6 Million 1 year).
Either way this is an issue for Ireland, the good news is we will have about $40 Million :hclap: in cap space next offseason.

ASSUMING he has a breakout year what are your thoughts?
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There is no way he gets that kind of $$. Even the franchise tag is way too much.
 
Nnamdi Asomugha was the top rated (and top paid) cornerback up until Revis. Sean Smith has good potential but he's not in Asomugha's league when it comes to performance to date. To put Smith in the $12M per annum range seems ridiculous. However, I'm expecting him to improve nicely this season and it doesn't hurt that he's playing for a big contract. Richard Marshall got $16M for 3 years. I would offer Smith around $25 - 30M for 5 years if he performs as well as I'm expecting.
 
Did Sean Smith even start last year? Can't be a good sign if one has trouble remembering.

A promsing rookie season followed by a possuming sophmore season begs the paradoxical poll within the poll- why the poll?
 
I've been a HUGE fanboy of Sean Smith's before and after the draft " and had him mocked to us in the second round the year he came out, and it's posted on this site " BUT i wouldn't pay him a dime over 7.5 a year and that's even if he has 10 Int's this year.
 
Smith and Davis....alot of talk and not alot of output!
 
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