Stop The Madness!!!

I think the Skins need to restructure Samuels first before they have a good idea of just how much they can spend on anyone. They did already make a good offer and maybe with more cap room from Samuels restructuring they will meet somewhere in the middle. Smoots current demands are unrealistic though. He wants Baileys contract which is rediculous...

This is clearly a situation that could become "Bailey" ugly over the next two months. Smoot is a "Redskin Guy" and I think they will try to get it done within reason.

With free agency, you can't get too attached to having a player be on your team. Smoot's received a very fair offer. You can get to a point where keeping a player means you are prostrating yourself, and signing him out of the fear of what will happen if you don't.

If Smoot demands a salary that will hurt the team, then in my book you shake his hand and wish him well. We have got other talented players already on our team. There is no need to turn around and draft another cornerback in the first round or even necessarily in any round if Smoot leaves, as I see it.

Amen. Even though I'd love to see him stay and show us that he IS a core player.

If I was smoot or anyother player of his caliper and have seen all the money Dan has thrown at FA I would have a hard time settling for less. Dan has dug himself into a hugh hole with the high paid contracts for FA that have contributed very little to the teams success while smoot has worked his butt off for little money. I like Dan as an owner but I feel he has learned very little with how and whom he spends his money. A good example is our deer friend Brunell while we did not know he would perform so poorly we did not need to spend the amount of money and draft pick to obtain him. Smoot is not a gamble and we know what we are getting for our money so sign him to a fair contract and move on.

Here's something ironic. Last year we traded Champ Bailey to the Broncos. The Rocky Mountain News is now suggesting that the Broncos target Fred Smoot as one of their free-agency acquisitions this year.

If the Broncos want Smoot let's play let's make a deal again with them, franchise him and try to get their first rounder, I'd even settle for their 2nd round pick.

Maybe Smoot can replace Bailey since it seems to be that Bailey got burned so many times... heheheheh...:)

Matty:

I'll defer to Crazy Canuck on this one but at the moment I don't think the Skins are able to franchise Smoot. He would count immediately as a $7.5M figure on their cap and I think they only have $4M in room.

So in order to franchise him, there would have to other moves to save $3.5M immediately. And the only way to do that is to cut players who have only trivial signing bonuses left to amortize.

They still have plenty of time to clear room, once Samuels restructures, and that should be soon, that will clear up a nice chunk of cap space.

I'll defer to Crazy Canuck on this one but at the moment I don't think the Skins are able to franchise Smoot. He would count immediately as a $7.5M figure on their cap and I think they only have $4M in room.

So in order to franchise him, there would have to other moves to save $3.5M immediately. And the only way to do that is to cut players who have only trivial signing bonuses left to amortize.


They still have plenty of time to clear room, once Samuels restructures, and that should be soon, that will clear up a nice chunk of cap space.

Both good points and I agree with both. After some housecleaning they should be able to fit Smoot's tag price under the cap. That being said, I don't think we can afford to keep him at the tag price. It's gotta be a tag-and-trade or no tag at all.