Steve Smith: A Football Life 11.18.16

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2 hours ago, L-TownCat said:

You have made your point perfectly clear.  Now do the respectful thing here and allow others to do the same.

i don't respect other ppl's opinions for the most part on this board because you guys are dumb as hell

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51 minutes ago, Cpt slay a ho said:

Every Steve smith thread,there is ass.ex I mean frash.ex just talking out the ass as usual, dude no one cares about your short sighted opinion, cracks me up how far someone will go out of there way to make a moot point, damn you would think its Fred Smoot behind the keyboard


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[Mr. Scot]

On 11/21/2016 at 9:37 AM, 5158Poundin said:

I love me some Smitty Sr and I hated he way Gettleman handled his release.  I miss seeing him in black and blue and hope he retires a Panther for that 1 day tenure.  What might have been will never be and I can totally understand why he had some hate initially - hence, the blood and guts game.  I was there at that game and it hurt to see him in another color.  In the end, he is currently the best Panther of all time in black and blue until Cam and/or Luke surpass that.  I don't get the butthurt hate here but everyone has an opinion and their own feelings.  It doesn't change the fact I still love him and we could use his fire this season.  Maybe the defenses would be a step more honest and the late hits on Cam might have stopped because Smitty, plainly would not put up with it nor allow his QB to be abused like that.  We will never know and it doesn't matter.  I still think of him in a positive light and always will.

Said it elsewhere: The release may have gone badly, but realistically there was no chance whatsoever of Smith going quietly if it wasn't on his terms.

That's just who he is.  It's part of what makes him a great player, but it's a double-edged sword.

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47 minutes ago, Mr. Scot said:

Said it elsewhere: The release may have gone badly, but realistically there was no chance whatsoever of Smith going quietly if it wasn't on his terms.

That's just who he is.  It's part of what makes him a great player, but it's a double-edged sword.

Smitty would not have been happy and it would not be on his terms.  He would have still ended up with a team like the Ravens most likely but he had earned the right to be respected for his contributions as a Panther and given forewarning before the media was alerted.  He deserved a proper notification and goodbye.  Getts/Rivera squandered this and created more drama/bad blood and left a bad taste in the mouths of the fanbase.  Not Getts best moment as GM for me and neither was his draft/free agent decisions for our weaknesses this off-season - but for me, Smitty's departure was one he had the easiest control of, the lowest risk of failure given Smitty's age and impending retirement, and Getts should have done this better.  Still love me some #Agent89 and I hope he is walking off that field and signing a 1day tender when HE is ready to say his watch is over!

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2 hours ago, frash.exe said:

i don't respect other ppl's opinions for the most part on this board because you guys are dumb as hell

Oooo, edgy.  Didn't ask you to respect the opinion just to respect that others can express their opinions without you chiming in with the always clever "nuh-uh" retort.

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1 hour ago, L-TownCat said:

Oooo, edgy.  Didn't ask you to respect the opinion just to respect that others can express their opinions without you chiming in with the always clever "nuh-uh" retort.

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i'm not trying to be edgy, but many of you guys act like uneducated toddlers

[Bronn]

frash has very valid points in his opinion about Smitty... I don't disagree with him at all on how he can form those opinions. Other people here that I generally like and appreciate as posters have said the same things about Smitty.

Where we probably differ is that I can see my twenty-somethings self reacting much like Smitty did in his situations here, so I am more quick to give him a pass. That doesn't make Smitty's behavior valid or excusable, just that I personally can give him a pass. That's on me, not on Steve Smith or some other fan's interpretation of who/what Smitty is.

Then again, I am probably just more forgiving than most because I don't hate Peppers either, like a lot of people here do.

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thing is i don't have to think of smith as anything special now that he doesn't play for the panthers anymore. there are so many people out in the real world who act like smith and they're just douchebags. every environment they jump into they just suck the morale out like a vaccuum. and i'm so sick of hearing that the team needed to give him advance notice. you got cut, they didn't tell you. deangelo got cut and they told him in advance and he still got pissy with the press about the panthers. if it wasn't that they cut him without the notice it would've been something else, maybe his production would've been cited as a reason for his release and he would've bitched about that outright and done the exact same thing. he's just a guy looking for a fight.

also the ravens are getting nowhere with him. all he does is pile up yards and the guy is not motivated by anything other than showing up someone when they talk poo. i don't think the guy cares all that much about winning the superbowl. why people obsess over still having that guy on this team is just the weirdest concoction of nostalgia and hero worship i've ever seen.

he gets cut, he dogs the coach, he dogs the team, he basically assures that the next team that signed him was playing us that year so he could prove some stupid point about him still being able to play even though he was mulling retirement the year before while he was still with us. he took his place on the team for granted for years. hurney was too chickenshit to hold him accountable for anything. 

f**k him. and if you saluted him the whole way through his revenge plot against the panthers, then f**k you too. no player like that deserves a statue or their jersey retired because they pile up stats while they wear our jersey. you know, if he handled his release with the slightest amount of grace and let it be and done his thing on another team without getting corleonitis for the panthers, i'd still consider him a panther for life. i'd still think he's a douche, but he'd still have his right to a legacy on the team. but not after the bs he pulled. he lost all of that when he burned his bridges. 

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2 minutes ago, frash.exe said:

thing is i don't have to think of smith as anything special now that he doesn't play for the panthers anymore. there are so many people out in the real world who act like smith and they're just douchebags. every environment they jump into they just suck the morale out like a vaccuum. and i'm so sick of hearing that the team needed to give him advance notice. you got cut, they didn't tell you. deangelo got cut and they told him in advance and he still got pissy with the press about the panthers. if it wasn't that they cut him without the notice it would've been something else, maybe his production would've been cited as a reason for his release and he would've bitched about that outright and done the exact same thing. he's just a guy looking for a fight.

also the ravens are getting nowhere with him. all he does is pile up yards and the guy is not motivated by anything other than showing up someone when they talk poo. i don't think the guy cares all that much about winning the superbowl. why people obsess over still having that guy on this team is just the weirdest concoction of nostalgia and hero worship i've ever seen.

he gets cut, he dogs the coach, he dogs the team, he basically assures that the next team that signed him was playing us that year so he could prove some stupid point about him still being able to play even though he was mulling retirement the year before while he was still with us. he took his place on the team for granted for years. hurney was too chickenshit to hold him accountable for anything. 

f**k him. and if you saluted him the whole way through his revenge plot against the panthers, then f**k you too. no player like that deserves a statue or their jersey retired because they pile up stats while they wear our jersey. you know, if he handled his release with the slightest amount of grace and let it be and done his thing on another team without getting corleonitis for the panthers, i'd still consider him a panther for life. i'd still think he's a douche, but he'd still have his right to a legacy on the team. but not after the bs he pulled. he lost all of that when he burned his bridges. 

no bro he needs a statue! a STATUE!

You sound like how Smitty sounds about his release, lol.

IDC about the advance notice and all that stuff... I think I just like him as a player, his reaction to adversity and doubt, and because he basically WAS the Panthers for damn near a decade.

I know we differ on this, but I still got love for you.

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2 minutes ago, Bronn said:

no bro he needs a statue! a STATUE!

You sound like how Smitty sounds about his release, lol.

IDC about the advance notice and all that stuff... I think I just like him as a player, his reaction to adversity and doubt, and because he basically WAS the Panthers for damn near a decade.

I know we differ on this, but I still got love for you.

it's hard not to like what he's done as a player. he could've been an asset if he was able to control his mouth in the locker room. the guy is just not enough of a team player and doesn't care about being a leader. 

and i also think that that is where the problem starts when he gets conflated with being the franchise. there are so many other guys that tried to be good teammates and contribute in every way possible while they were here and they don't get the adoration because they don't have a HOF statline or the tenure.

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oh hey look the nfl just published an article about what motivates steve smith on gameday:

"There are times when I go out there and play and I look at it like this," he said. "Everybody has kids, right? I want my son, if he decides to play, he's playing against a guy who possibly I played against his dad, and [he can say] my dad beat you like a drum, so I'm going to beat you like a drum.

"Generational ass whoopings. I look at it like that. Just like anything else, an opportunity to brag. Or, I like playing a guy and the next time I'm on TV, his mom says, I hate him. Why? Because I beat your son. I got your son fired."

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000000744486/article/steve-smiths-motivation-generational-ass-whoopings

i saw this and immediately pictured cpt slay a ho reading it and spazzing out in sheer joy like special ed from crank yankers