Originally Posted by RaginCajun83 (Post 516580)

I want to think the same thing that Smith will be a back up but Sean can be loyal to a fault sometimes, Junior should have been starting for the last two years. For some reason I keep thinking Smith won't get cut and Steven Jackson is going to keep on catching passes in the flat come Week 1

Originally Posted by rezburna (Post 516604)

I rather be slightly less optimistic and pleasantly surprised then over confident and utterly disappointed. .

Originally Posted by Danno (Post 516607)

Why not just be realistically confident?

Originally Posted by Danno (Post 516596)

And our WLB (Vilma) will be right there waiting for him.

Originally Posted by FinSaint (Post 516356)

I was a bit surprised at how slow and out of place Smith looked in the 1st preseason game - maybe I let the optimist in me talk me into believing that somehow this positional change would work out... IDK.

Anyway, I was very disappointed with how he behaved on the field and it didn't look any better during the second watch, so maybe he could move back into a "hand on the turf" position or maybe he'll improve... but at the moment I just can't see a way he could be a starter in any of the positions available to him in this defense.

Originally Posted by halloween 65 (Post 516615)

Personally I would rather have Smith in that position waiting on Jackson than Vilma. Jackson will run over Vilma like a freight train trucking on down the tracks.