RaidersAreOne Posted May 12, 2023 Share Posted May 12, 2023 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
solidvikingfan Posted May 12, 2023 Share Posted May 12, 2023 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vikingsrule Posted May 12, 2023 Share Posted May 12, 2023 Probably for the best. Seems he’s always disgruntled. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vike daddy Posted May 13, 2023 Share Posted May 13, 2023 not much of a return but he really doesn't have much left in the tank, it appears. what are our cap savings? and i imagine this was done now so to sign Addison? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CriminalMind Posted May 13, 2023 Share Posted May 13, 2023 Pretty much what i was anticipating. Hoped for 2023 5th Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SemperFeist Posted May 13, 2023 Share Posted May 13, 2023 Turning nothing into something is always a positive. I’m still a bit surprised by Smith’s desire to leave. It really doesn’t make a ton of sense to me. Unless he’s just one of those players who doesn’t like being in the shadow of another player. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vikingsrule Posted May 13, 2023 Share Posted May 13, 2023 34 minutes ago, SemperFeist said: Turning nothing into something is always a positive. I’m still a bit surprised by Smith’s desire to leave. It really doesn’t make a ton of sense to me. Unless he’s just one of those players who doesn’t like being in the shadow of another player. Going to Cleveland doesn’t fix that. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SemperFeist Posted May 13, 2023 Share Posted May 13, 2023 1 minute ago, vikingsrule said: Going to Cleveland doesn’t fix that. No, it doesn’t. My comment wasn’t about where he’s going, but why he’d want out in the first place. As for him going to Cleveland, it’s probably easier to save face in a trade, than to come back and play for a team that you said goodbye to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SemperFeist Posted May 13, 2023 Share Posted May 13, 2023 If this is accurate, yikes. Kwesi needs to get rid of Ryan Grigson. Because he’s making Ryan Grigson type moves. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CriminalMind Posted May 13, 2023 Share Posted May 13, 2023 1 hour ago, SemperFeist said: Turning nothing into something is always a positive. I’m still a bit surprised by Smith’s desire to leave. It really doesn’t make a ton of sense to me. Unless he’s just one of those players who doesn’t like being in the shadow of another player. He wanted out of this contract, this trade with new contractual terms makes him a free agent after the year, previously was under contract for 2 seasons 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SemperFeist Posted May 13, 2023 Share Posted May 13, 2023 58 minutes ago, CriminalMind said: He wanted out of this contract, this trade with new contractual terms makes him a free agent after the year, previously was under contract for 2 seasons They could have easily redone the contract to match this. And if Smith wanted to have a prove it year to try and land one more big pay day, it’s odd that he’d want to leave the team that just hired Brian Flores. Smith is a tailor made fit for what Flores likes to do. Going to Cleveland he’s going to have to fit in with what Jim Schwartz is doing, which is a for more traditional 4-3 defense. Not exactly Smith’s forte. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PrplChilPill Posted May 13, 2023 Share Posted May 13, 2023 I'm not sure I do it for that. But, well, good luck on those picks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vikes635 Posted May 13, 2023 Share Posted May 13, 2023 I don't know the cap situation but obviously money aside this was a bad trade, we gave up a double digit sack guy whom I believe also had 15 TFL last year to not gain 2 picks but move up to the 5th from our other picks. This makes us less competitive imo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gopherwrestler Posted May 13, 2023 Share Posted May 13, 2023 5 hours ago, PrplChilPill said: I'm not sure I do it for that. But, well, good luck on those picks. I just don’t think there was a ton more to get out of the deal. He was clearly not wanting to be here and this allows some cleared cap space. The only real leverage we had was he was under contract. But his leverage can come down to 0 effort and let it play out and not play. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteelKing728 Posted May 13, 2023 Share Posted May 13, 2023 Well now I can root for the Browns to lose so we can get a better draft pick! Z is starting to slow down, but I think he's going to look bad in a 4-3 defense. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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