Dumb idea of the day: Let Alex Smith play out his contract

[SAUTO]

Originally Posted by temper11

I don't know what he would do about it or what he can and can't do about it. Again I reference the situation pre 2012. Smith said the niners presented him with an offer, and he accepted the offer, and didn't know why the deal wasn't done. He said he'd assumed they were working out some of the ancillary details. Come to find out, Condon was likely working another deal with Manning.

I've never been in this position in which someone is negotiating on my behalf with a personal interest at stake in those negotiations. I don't claim to know what power he has or doesn't have. I'm just a fool, with an opinion on a message board.

if that was true he should have fired the agent on the ****ing spot...

he didn't so it obviously wasn't.

use some common sense dude.

[temper11]

Originally Posted by JASONSAUTO

if that was true he should have fired the agent on the ****ing spot...

he didn't so it obviously wasn't.

use some common sense dude.

Or maybe that's just how things work in the NFL. Condon is working for both Manning and Smith and probably a few other QB's. I'm not naïve to think that agents and players have relationships like Jerry McGuire in which he is only focused on one player. That IS the way it happened though - publically. I don't know what back story was going on, but Smith expressed that he'd agreed to the terms on the table, then it was reported that the niners were looking at Manning and Smith suddenly started scrambling to see what teams were interested. I think he even flew out to Miami. Maybe it was the niners dragging their feet when Manning cleared his physical, but I'm sure Condon wasn't pushing them very hard to finalize the deal with Smith either since he was also Manning's agent and due to gain far more commission (are they commission based?) from a Manning deal than he was from Smith's. Truth is, no one but those involved in the negotiations know exactly how that played out.

And if things did go down like that, Smith may have wanted to shit-can Condon, just as he probably wanted to piss on San Fran fans, and be a cancer in the locker room when he lost his job to injury, or do anything other than what professionalism required of him at any time in his career. But that is not the way Smith roles. Condon is said to be one of the best agents out there, and Smith was going to need all the connections he could get during that period of his career in which that huge question mark hung over his head.

It's all speculation, and probably not near so simple as you claim it to be.