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Steve Smith Makes It Clear - HE Will Choose Who He Retires With

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Per his Instagram. You know I'm not big on Smitty talk in the Panthers forum during actual football season, but being as this was recently discussed by the MFCEO himself here, I felt it was worth a discussion. 

Smitty being Smitty. Seems he may have heard enough of this retire as a Panther talk. 

I'll always love Smitty for his contributions to this organization, but if he definitely dances to the beat of his own drum, which can rub people the wrong way. 

 

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I'd say it's more Smith focusing on his team now than his retirement "later".

Also, I don't really care if they do the P/R thing and he "retires as a Panther". Dude gave his blood and sweat to the team and the fans for over a decade. I don't care if there's a one day ceremonial circle jerk about that.

My feelings exactly. I started a post the other day about Smitty's greatest moments bc I wanted to reminisce about them as a Panthers fan for a great player.

But I have moved on and support this team, this coach, and this GM. Whatever Smitty does from here out is mostly irrelevant to Panthers fans outside of him potentially  making the Hall of Fame.

Smitty is wired differently. Joe Montana, Emmitt Smith, Brett Farve, Peyton Manning, Jerry Rice, etc. all finished up in different places, and it wasn't their choice. That's the way life usually goes. And all of them had at least decent years playing for other teams. Sometimes decisions to move on just have to be made. And it was time for Smitty to go here.

If Smitty wants to be bitter in the end so be it. He gave us 13 damn good years.

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At this point I hope he retires a LA Dodger. That's the only logo he's got tatted on him. But in all seriousness, I've never understood the big deal about a guy signing a meaningless 1 day contract. Hooray! He signed our paper last! It might actually mean something if these guys played "one last game" with the team of their choosing. But if you're asking me if I'd get excited over him saying "well guys I just thought I'd take this time to thank the organization for yadda yadda yadda" then no, it's not that big of a deal. He's only going to do it if he gets some sort of apology from Gettleman, and we all know that's not going to happen. Both were too hard headed to co-exist, and neither are going to budge for a PR happy ending.

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