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re: Will Smith, 3-4 monster or black and gold history?
Posted on 2/1/13 at 9:56 am to Suntiger
Posted on 2/1/13 at 9:56 am to Suntiger
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Sign him to a one year $5.5 million dollar deal. If he won't do that, then let him go.
It will cost the minimum $5.5mil just to cut him- no matter what. To keep him, you'll have to add whatever salary on top of that.
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he's never earned the big bucks he received on his 2nd contract.
THIS is the mistake. Loomis and Payton seem to wanna keep key players and reward them. That is good but I love this Belichick axiom: "Better to let them go one contract too soon than to keep them one contract too long."
Two of the major personnel decision failures in the Payton era have been new deals for Charles Grant & Will Smith. Both had some good game left but the contracts paid them beyond their performance level. Roman Harper is coming right up on them counting $15million against the cap the next two years.
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Posted on 2/1/13 at 10:16 am to blueslover
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Sign him to a one year $5.5 million dollar deal. If he won't do that, then let him go.
It will cost the minimum $5.5mil just to cut him- no matter what. To keep him, you'll have to add whatever salary on top of that.
That's what I'm saying. Let him stay for a year at the same price as cutting him. If he doesn't want to do that, then cut him and take the hit.
If we trade him, do we take a cap hit? Is there any trade potential. Hell, I'd take a guy like J. Amaya in a trade and cut him to lessen the cap hit if that's the case.
Posted on 2/3/13 at 8:39 am to blueslover
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Two of the major personnel decision failures in the Payton era have been new deals for Charles Grant & Will Smith.
You're 100% correct and the most disappointing thing is that everyone but the Saint's decision makers knew it. At the time, Grant and Smith became top 10 earners at their position and that was a major risk. They rolled the dice on both and lost miserably on Grant and didn't get even money on Smith. I hope Loomis takes note of the Grant, Smith and Harper situations and plays closer to the vest in the future.
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