Smitty

I defended it. I defended the shit out of it. But I didn't understand it, and still thought it was high. No one saw him being this good.

He's elite. He's putting up the numbers he did in 03, maybe more thanks to a complete lack of production from the other starter.

 

Yeah, I was referring to you. We've been on amazingly good terms lately, but you're lying out your ass about defending the Smith pick. I definitely would have remembered, as I remember plenty of discussions about the selections out of that draft.

 

You were bitching hard about not taking Barlow, and felt that Michael Bates had so much more to offer than Smith. I would've liked Barlow, sure. I defended the pick. And I was very harsh on him from mid-02 through mid-2003.

Fuck. I defended almost every Seifert pick, so I don't know why it's so hard for you to wrap your head around it.

 

I don't remember it and no one else does either, dude. Say whatever you like, but whenever you're the only one who remembers it that way, it probably didn't happen. You certainly weren't as critical as most of us, but no one defended the Smith pick.

 

FWIW, I don't think anyone else cares. I think it's just you taking a shot. But maybe you're right, maybe I didn't defend the shit out of every Seifert pick, or I did on all the others and I'm just trying to make myself look better.

Seriously. I remember those exact points. You felt we had enough WR depth, you felt Bates was a better KR, and that we really needed a back. The part about needing a back was true, and the chilling "we had Nick Goings as high as Kevan Barlow" comment makes me wonder what the fuck we were looking at, but yeah. I didn't "get" the pick, but I liked having his speed and his PR ability, and would've defended it regardless.

I love fights over semantics from five drafts ago

 

I'm not meaning to take a shot, I just don't think you're telling the truth. Maybe my memory is fucked up and I'm just wrong.


One thing I know you're wrong about is that I thought we had enough WR depth. I desperately wanted Barlow, but I repeatedly said that if we were going to choose a 3rd round WR, it should have at least been someone who can actually play WR. Of course it turned out that Smith has been a dynamic WR, but at the time we all thought he was strictly a return man with no serious possibility of ever being a contributor at WR. We also talked about his anger issues at Utah, his neck injury, etc. No one defended the pick.

 

Yeah, who the fuck cares.

Nobody here, or anywhere else, thought Smitty would become what he has. I do remember some grumblings about the pick from many, that is, until his first touch in the NFL. And there were some defending it. I think I remember Mags defending the pick, tho inferring Smitty mighta dropped to us later, or that it was too early to pick him, but that he liked Smitty.

People have been calling for his head many times over the first coupla years, after shit like the punching incident and the head kick, etc.

But there's no doubt, he can produce, plain and simple. And it has appeared since that head kick in 2003, that he has gotten his head on straight.

Why the fuk do folks love to come on TBR throwing jabs out there, making their best efforts to "own" folks, even thinking they do (albeit only in their own little minds)? It gets very old looking like an ass, whether they know football and have a few valid opinions or not.

 

You said it brother!

Too much ego on this forum.

 

NERD WARZ -

Chapter 5 - The Smitty Affair.

 

Were you even at the Lair then? Did you post under another name or just lurk?