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Originally Posted by Direckshun
Dude, have you SEEN the QB contracts this league's been handing out to middle of the road QBs? Cutler, Kaepernick, Dalton.
QB play is so atrocious in the NFL that even middle class QBs have all the leverage over their teams.
We've got a fair deal that doesn't hurt the rest of the team, cap-wise.
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Considering that this is going to be our third straight winning season with Smith as our QB and what looks to be the second appearence in the playoffs in three years, I'd say we got a goddamn bargain considering what Smith signed for.
And for this system and what he's done with it, I would hardly consider Smith "middle of the road." Maybe the best QB in the NFL for what Reid runs and it's really taken two plus seasons to finally get this ship righted and playing to their potential. And that's still with a questionable receiving corps and a continually rotating offensive line that's starting two rookies (Morse and LDT) and a guy at RT (Jah Reid) who was discarded by what is currently the worst team in the NFL (Ravens).
I mean, the guy got internal organs ruptured he was getting hit so much and so hard last season playing behind what might have been the worst line in football while throwing to the worst receiving corps in NFL history. And he still got us to a winning season.
Smith has been a ****ing stud if you ask me.