Common theme with all trade rumors?

TheDeuce · 04-25-2006, 09:59 PM

Smith on the block?
<Apr. 24> Despite playing just one year in New Orleans, and having a very productive all-around campaign in 2005, Smith is being dangled by Saints officials in trade talks, according to ESPN.com's Len Pasquarelli.
One of the teams showing some interest, ironically, is Tampa Bay, for whom Smith played the first four seasons of his career before signing with New Orleans as a free agent last spring. Tampa Bay has two solid young safeties in Jermaine Phillips and Will Allen, but the Bucs coaches still love the ballhawking Smith, a guy with a big-play mentality.

Smith has four seasons left on the contract he signed in New Orleans, and the first two years of the deal carry very palatable base salaries, $1.2 million in 2006 and 1.6 million in 2007.

From a discipline standpoint I could see why we would want to trade him, and I've trusted in everything that Payton has done so far, but trading Dwight Smith just does not make sense to me. He's our best player in the secondary. Right now our secondary is shaky because we don't have another corner back to compliment MM, and the only reason it's not in total shambles is because we have Dwight and Bullocks holding down the safety spots. Trading him will only make this team worse IMO.

04-25-2006, 09:59 PM	#1
TheDeuce 1000 Posts + Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 2,928	Smith on the block? <Apr. 24> Despite playing just one year in New Orleans, and having a very productive all-around campaign in 2005, Smith is being dangled by Saints officials in trade talks, according to ESPN.com's Len Pasquarelli. One of the teams showing some interest, ironically, is Tampa Bay, for whom Smith played the first four seasons of his career before signing with New Orleans as a free agent last spring. Tampa Bay has two solid young safeties in Jermaine Phillips and Will Allen, but the Bucs coaches still love the ballhawking Smith, a guy with a big-play mentality. Smith has four seasons left on the contract he signed in New Orleans, and the first two years of the deal carry very palatable base salaries, $1.2 million in 2006 and 1.6 million in 2007. From a discipline standpoint I could see why we would want to trade him, and I've trusted in everything that Payton has done so far, but trading Dwight Smith just does not make sense to me. He's our best player in the secondary. Right now our secondary is shaky because we don't have another corner back to compliment MM, and the only reason it's not in total shambles is because we have Dwight and Bullocks holding down the safety spots. Trading him will only make this team worse IMO.
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