Who else is interested and can afford Smoot?

[Longtimefan]

I don't think we will up the ante to Smoot because we've already made him a more than fair offer which he refused.Based on the interest he's generated around the league, I don't think he's going to receive many offers much better than the one he's already been made.

I honestly think the Redskins should take a look at the young players they already have at the position. If Walt Harris is sufficiently recovered from the knee injury he came with last season, I think he will be more than adaquate as the starter opposite Springs. Both Wilds, and Rufus Brown have up-side, and I think we should look in-house to upgrade the position and stop considering free-agents every time we think we have a need. We already have talent at the cornerback position if we just give them an opportunity to produce.

We all witnessed GW work magic with with more than a couple unhearlded defensive players last year, and there's nothing to make me think he dosen't more in store for this season. I say let's give our own players a fair chance to contribute, and if Smoot decides to take his game elsewhere, so be it. I certainly am not of the opinion we should be begging this guy to stay because we will still have a great defense without him. He certainly was not the reason we had the best defense in the NFC, as a matter of fact I recall two games he was directly the cause of us loosing with pass-interference calls. On one ocasion I recall him removing a guy's helmet for which he was assessed a personal foul, the kind of things coach Gibbs shows disdain for.

I really don't think we need to sulk over his protracted departure. If all the thing he was saying during the season, and at the end of last season about wanting to be a part of that core group which Gibbs has spoken so often about are true, then "Sign The Contract" It's more than a fair offer.

Hail Skins!!