Sean Smith will be suspended for 3 games
 

@AdamSchefter: NFL is suspending Chiefs CB Sean Smith 3 games after he pled guilty last month for DUI and received two years’ probation, per NFL source.

I can't believe he got more than 2.

Peters best get his shit together fast.

Pass rush needs to be in god mode early too

Chance of appeal and reduction?

I would think it could be reduced to 2.

So he'll be out for two of the games we'll need him the most.

Because....

our matchup vs Denver looks completely ****ed now

Who cares if he plays 2 or 3 games? Like it's gonna matter playing the best QB in Lambeau with a stacked offense.

Jesus. Doesn't 3 seem harsh compared to what we usually see in a situation like this?

Yes, actually. It's not like he deflated footballs or anything.

is he really the difference if this team loses or wins those games? Its our deepest position. Hes gone after this season anyway.

Sean Smith needs to appeal immediately.

If Greg Hardy can beat women and get his sentence reduced by 6 games, then Sean Smith should be able to get his reduced.

Sean Smith will be suspended for 3 games
 

The game against Denver and Green Bay would have been great barometer games.

They still will, obviously, but it would have been better to know how we fare at full strength. Our chances of winning also take a hit.

Eh, not "THE" difference, but it would be nice to have a veteran presence at corner the first month of the season, especially considering our opponents. Now we have a second year guy and a rookie as our starters.

This will appeal to 2

As a football fan - seems a little harsh compared to other penalties.

As a human being - good. No excuse to drink and drive especially with the money he has. He's lucky he didn't kill someone and the NFL should take a harsher stance on things like this.

As far as CB being deep - it's young and inexperienced. The D will definitely miss him.

Yes. It's like when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor

Good thing is that I do think that Peters is a guy who doesn't appear to have the game be too big for him.

I hope he fares well.

Yeah, this.

Plus, I'm more concerned about outscoring teams like Denver and GB anyway.

Sean Smith gets a 3 game suspension for DUI? That's a little harsh... how does Smith's honest mistake off the field affect the integrity of the game, Roger?

Roger doesn't like drinkers. Has he ever told you about his scars? His dad was a drinker......

He'll appeal and it'll be reduced to one

Smiths DUI is 3 games. Brady's deflation is 4 games. ROFL

I'd agree with this.

A young Roger???

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They're saying he got an extra game because he hit a pole.

Wow what a ****ing joke

This won't hurt as bad as some think. If anything this will speed the development of peters and let the Chiefs see where Gaines is going into year two.

To protect the shield.

Sometimes those Eastern Europeans are mouthy mother****ers and deserve to be hit.

I do hate losing his length.

Thomas is difficult to deal with because the guy is just massive. He's not a burner, he's not terribly quick - he's just huge. Even if Peters is on his game, there are times he's going to simply be outmatched physically.

That hurts. Badly. We desperately needed Smith for game 2 at home against Denver. Hell, if it were just the game at Mile High wouldn't be so bummed out but the Chiefs HAVE to win that game.

Without Smith they're facing an uphill climb.

How do we know his car wasn't hacked?

Can confirm. Poles will do enough stuff you will consider taking a swing at them for.

He isn't planning on appealing it.

Losing your top corner sucks. Especially when the guy is playing like a top 10 CB in the league. You need that vet experience when playing someone like Denver who runs a gazillion screens and picks.

Heh. Length. Heh.

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Drunken ****. No excuse for an NFL player to get a DWI. None.

Typical Cheap Scum

Didn't Pugsnothugs assure us 3 days ago that there would be no suspension?

think he was more going after this guy...

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Well ****.

Nah i bet he gets re-signed.

Sean smith is the poster child for the player you don't re sign.

Damn, so we lose him against Denver and GB.

That's gonna hurt.

Unless he wants to stay on the cheap, no way.

If he has another solid season, he'll get paid and hopefully not by the Chiefs.

Especially with the secondary they've drafted lately.

With goodell, who the **** knows. His arbitrary penalty system is the dumbest shit ever. It's not that hard. His dui punishment should be the same as the next guys punishment.

Chiefs need to score more points, period.

3-13 mr 4th and 48ers

Already with the excuses? Smith is good but he's not Revis. He's like a B+ CB we can replace with a B- player. It's not like no one will man the position.

If our front 7 can't get to/disrupt/hit Peyton it wouldn't really matter anyway.

But smith would help give them time to do that.

WTF 3 games for DUI but punching your fiance only 2 games.

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It's not an excuse - Ws and Ls are all that matters and the Chiefs have no choice but to win that football game.

But lets not act like this doesn't make it substantially more difficult. Last year Smith was a fringe pro-bowl caliber player and his length perfectly matches up with what Thomas can do. It isn't just about 'B+' players, it's a B+ player that also presents a difficult matchup for Denver's top receiving threat.

It's the old boxing axiom - matchups make fights. Hell, let's say you replace Smith with another B+ player - he's still not going to be as good in that game because he doesn't present the length problems that Smith does.

If the Broncos lost Thomas, we'd see that as a pretty damaging loss for them and assume our odds of success just increased quite a bit, no? Well by losing Smith and a very strong matchup against Thomas, we've essentially done the inverse by increasing Thomas's effectiveness and thus decreased our odds of success quite a bit.

Peters is gonna be a bad ass in the NFL. this will give him opportunity right out the gate and cement him as a starter opposite Smith when he returns.

Is this the 3rd year in a row we've had someone out for at least the first game with a suspension?

Bowe was last year. Wasn't Hali out 1 game the year before that?

Oh well, luckily we have a guy like Peters to step in and compete.

That's gonna be a straight brawl.

He's a good but overrated player, who will hopefully be made redundant by Peters.

what is the pro to overpaying him after you invest a bunch of high end draft picks at the position the last two years. Theres no reason for him to be here after this year. Hes not bad but we got potential, younger, cheaper talent waiting in the wings.

If we were without him and had to play them 3 times, for sure. But a single game, small sample size comes into play but 1 single play can make a difference.

Like I said (you said too iirc) if houston Hali and ford don't make plays, we can't beat them

Also, being we play RCB/LCB it will be interesting to see how Denver's lines up against us. Same for GB.

Has anybody seen this yet.


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I can. He plays for the Chiefs...

Who gives a ****? He's FROM Oakland.

I might give one if it said "Oakland Raiders".

Well no, I wouldn't really.

How so?

No - 3 out of 4.
Hali was out against Atlanta in 2012. Last year it was Bowe. Though none missed 3 games.

Looks like that would be painful on the spine. Does that say Oakland?

He's from Oakland.

Hali had a pick 6 in week 1 of the 2013 season, IIRC.

Yup, I did say that Houston, Hali and Poe need to step up against Denver. But as part of that conversation I said 'our best players need to step up and play their best in our biggest games'.

Smith is among our best players. Dipshit Clay spent an entire offseason disparaging the guy so suddenly the narrative started that he just isn't very good. After kicking ass and taking names last season folks started acknowledging 'well I guess he's adequate'. My ass, Sean Smith was a legitimately outstanding player for us last season. He was no worse than a top 10 NFL corner last season and an argument can be made that he was better than that.

I think people spent so much energy talking the guy down prior to last season that they're disregarding just how important he was. He was a great player last year and if we're going to do real damage this year, he'll need to be great again. Going into a contract year, I see no reason he wouldn't be and his loss will hurt.

Serious question: Is Uber not readily available in the KC Metro area? I recall taxi's as being fairly scarce but I'd think that with society's view towards DUI's, they'd be more available than when I lived there 22 years ago.

Sean Smith will be suspended for 3 games
 

FTR, there were several people here that recognized Sean Smith as our best corner oftentimes during the 2013 season.

Some people are just more impressionable and Clay got his hooks in them.

Yep. I loved when we signed Sean Smith. Dude is a perfect fit for this defense.

Some people are stupid, yes.

We haven't even seen Peters play and Gaines is not a sure thing either, he needs to get bigger and stronger and his sample size is awfully small because of injury, which he will continue to get banged up and inj in this league is he doesn't bulk up and get stronger, and Nelson will be a nickel/dime CB.

Smith was a top CB in the NFL last season, and can be again this season with the added front 7 help. You need top CB's in today's NFL. And this team now has one. Berry is coming back hopefully soon, which will boost this defense even more.

I want a dominating Chiefs defense. It needs to be the best defense in the league because Alex Smith won't win this team shit unless it is the best. The defense has tons of talent on it, there's no reason not to invest in the defense more and not have to worry about the secondary for years. Is a DWI all you're scared of?

Can you imagine eventually having Smith, Peters, Gaines covering xyz, Parker as a single high safety, Berry down in the box covering TE's and underneath routes along w/ DJ, and Houston, Ford, Catapano, Bailey, and Poe all unleashing hell on the QB. WTF is going to be able to pass on us?

Some is putting it very nicely

:D

Smith is unlikely to be affordable. By most accounts the Chiefs have approached him about an extension and the talks went nowhere. Byron Maxwell's contract is largely a bullshit contract full of fake numbers (similar to Ron Parkers) but even his absurd 6/$63 boils down to 2/$22 million after his roster bonus, signing bonus and guaranteed 2016 base is added up. He'll get cut/restructured in 2017 but he'll still have gotten $22 million in years 1 and 2.

So the 'real' value of the deal is still around $10 million in AAV and Smith should be able to demand that pretty easily.

The Chiefs just won't have that kind of money to spend. Granted, they've already worked $7.25 million into the cap for this season, but they have increases due to guys like Houston and Maclin next season that will swallow that up.

I'd love to keep him. He's appears to be a great teammate and an outstanding energy guy on the field (you need to be at the stadium to see that). He's a big part of the D's success. I just don't think it's realistic.

Gaines is going to handle his just fine this year. I fully expect a breakout performance this year. Also, hopefully this means Smith comes back and has an all-pro type season for the 13-14 games he plays in. Let's collectively hold our breath that Peters and Co. can hold it down for a couple of weeks. I'm not too worried about with our front 7 stacked the way it is. With or without Smith, I believe we go 2-1 in our first 3.

Gains added some bulk during the off season not sure how much.

http://www.kansascity.com/sports/nfl...e23623108.html

Gaines, however, added that the extra bulk will probably be more helpful when defending the pick plays and screens that have become more popular than ever.

“(It will help) just getting off blocks and stuff,” Gaines said. “A lot of teams are going to fast screens, switchblade-type plays, so weight always helps you when you’re trying to disengage from a blocker.”

I'd love to keep Smith on an affordable three year deal, with something like $30 million in total value but I think he'll find more guaranteed money on the open market.

Fortunately, Dorsey has been drafting players while Emmitt Thomas has been working to develop them and while it will suck to lose him, the blow to the secondary would be far greater without Peters, Gaines and the others.

That said, this suspension is ludicrous. It's almost as if Goodell knows he's going to face the NFLPA with every suspension and therefore unleashes a stupid amount of punishment.

Smith should get one game, no more, no less.

Here's my hope for that Denver game...

Denver will be starting a rookie LT (Ty Sambrillo) and a journeyman at RT in Ryan Harris (at best) ...lost Ryan Clady, Julius Thomas (and his drafted replacement Heuerman), Manny Ramirez and Orlando Franklin

They will need to do a lot to make sure they protect Manning from getting hit a lot so early in the year and with the OL taking major steps back in ability, they're gonna need to utilize the scheme to do so.

That means lots of quick hitter passes, misdirection runs and play action. If Sutton prepares his guys effectively for those 3 things, I can see us having a good game against them defensively.

3 guys we need to slow down....CJ Anderson, Emmanuel Sanders and Demarius Thomas.

If that means we bracket Thomas AND Sanders on the outside and press at the line all night...I'm game. Do that in coverage and put pressure on their OL to block and we should be able to limit their offense enough to put out offense in a position to win.