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Steve Smith....lets put this to a end

tarheelfan23

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With Smith, you have to take the good with the bad.  On and off the field, he has done some incredible things.  Hall of Fame worthy things.  On the other side, the same rage he played with spilled over into the meeting room, practice field, and who knows were else.  If he was tamer, he would not have been half the player he was.

I think it's very short sighted to throw out all of his on and off the field accomplishments because of his fights.  Was Smith an angle?  Nope.  But he was one of the best players we have ever seen, and he's one of the best in NFL history.  The Panthers would be foolish to not remember him in someway.

Statue?  I don't know.  Retire his number?  Absolutely.

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33 minutes ago, Dunn said:

You've never played a competitive sport before, have you?  This isn't co-ed softball.  Those guys are all competing at the highest level of football, you damn right he's going to be pissed when its a matter of Wins or Losses.  Not everyone can provide safe spaces for your feelings. 

Guy was good to the community and was never in trouble with the law/sleeping around/steroids etc.  Honestly he was a model citizen outside of football.  And even then I'd say aside from the few fights he had over his career, a model football player. 

He only punched his own team mates during practice or film sessions. He was a great player, but a horrible Carolina Panther. 

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35 minutes ago, Captain Obvious said:

said he was born to be a raven. Then he should stay a raven. Evermore.

I would have been talking trash after the Panthers cut me (after years of stellar play) too.  The guy carried this team at times from the WR position (remember that punt return when we couldn't get him the ball in the playoffs?) which is really hard to do.  All time great Panther, and definitely better than Peppers as a Panther, nothing Peppers did during his years away counts towards his status among Panthers greats as far as I'm concerned (and worth noting that Peppers split, and specifically wanted to leave the Panthers, as opposed to getting cut).  

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4 minutes ago, kungfoodude said:

Ah. A sport where "fighting" is just a bunch of dudes bumping chests together and staring intensely into each other's eyes. It makes sense now.

hahah what sport other than boxing or mma where "fighting" is suppose to be a part of the game??

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4 minutes ago, d-dave said:

With Smith, you have to take the good with the bad.  On and off the field, he has done some incredible things.  Hall of Fame worthy things.  On the other side, the same rage he played with spilled over into the meeting room, practice field, and who knows were else.  If he was tamer, he would not have been half the player he was.

I think it's very short sighted to throw out all of his on and off the field accomplishments because of his fights.  Was Smith an angle?  Nope.  But he was one of the best players we have ever seen, and he's one of the best in NFL history.  The Panthers would be foolish to not remember him in someway.

Statue?  I don't know.  Retire his number?  Absolutely.

put him in the elusive ring of honor...his number retired...NO WAY

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Just now, tarheelfan23 said:

plently of plays that he was able to take off......

 

running plays smitty would only give 100% if it was coming his way.....

The old, tired excuse people use to dismiss any great wide receiver if they want to put them down.  The only great player that I can recall being legitimately guilty of this regularly was Randy Moss...and he was so good that it almost didn't even matter.  Most of the time people bring it up, it is pure sour grapes.

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