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Originally Posted by cadams
You are wrong here. First of all, as a GM you have to take into account the "what ifs" that's part of the job. yes it worked out, but "what if" denver signed anderson to a contract with a poison pill as joshua discussed above? don't act like that isn't a valid point. it has happened before and will again. and if you want a guy around you don't subject yourself to that chance. denver could have signed anderson for less, and put a pill in there that would completely take the texans out of the market. now you are correct, it did not happen, but just because it worked out this time doesnt mean it was necessarily the best way to approach it.
they did the same thing with leach and it bit them. you seem to be overly confrontational when someone disagrees with you. if you don't like "armchair gms" then maybe a message board about a football team isn't where you need to be hanging out. "what ifs" and discussing what you think could be problems are as much a part of what these boards are for as anything else. now i am not bashing smith, i think he has done a pretty good job for the most part since being here, but he hasn't been perfect . . .especially in free agency and dealing with non-draft signings, but he is getting good players in here and they seem to be moving in the right direction.
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A GM is paid to know what a player is worth. They are paid to know how a player is valued by other teams. Rick Smith apparently felt confident that he knew these things and that he could do it this way. And guess what he was right. And regarding poison pills, has anyone ever put one in a contract this small for a backup player? Has it ever happened? This is a serious question. Has anyone ever put a poison pill in a deal for less than 5 million dollars?
You guys are so sure that this was the wrong way to do things, but IT WORKED. Smith made a play and the result was a very reasonable contract under the circumstances. As I have pointed out, it is probably the cheapest way to possibly keep DA over the next 3 years. And nobody has disputed that.
Come back later and complain about one of the many decisions that didn't work. Complaining about one that did is just silly.