Smoot news

[celts32]

Originally Posted by Ramseyfan

I HIGHLY doubt Smooty will return to D.C. Although no one has yet offered Smoot in excess of $10 million (as a SB), someone surely will. You can take that to the bank.

I'm not sure why we can't up our offer by $2 million...it would only lead to an extra cap hit each season of about 300K. That's nothing.

I agree with Ramsey, there is no way SMoot is coming back without the Skins increasing that signing bonus. Smoot could get a 10 mil bonus today from KC or the Jets to name a couple if he was willing to settle for that.

The Redskins say they will not increase, but they did match a 6.5 bonus on Pierce when they had offered 3.5 reportedly. The problem with the Redskins waiting until another offer comes in though is that any team that signs him is going to frontload the first couple years to make it so that the Skins can't match the terms. The only way they will get smoot is to increase their bonus offer now so that they can set the terms of the contract themselves. Once another team is involved they are not going to make Smoot an offer that could fit in the Skins cap knowing that he wants to be in DC...