Steve Smith really is injured, fool
All you people who think that Panthers receiver Steve Smith is using his hamstring injury to set the stage for some good ol’ fashioned contract negotiations, take note. Steve Smith is not going to stoop to your level. And you’re a fool.
“For the people who are insulting me and this organization, who think I’m going to stoop down to that level, that’s not me. There are a lot of other things I can be doing if I’m holding out. I can go home. I can go to the lake house with my family. I can do a lot of things more important than to make a (fool) out of myself and the organization. You’re foolish to think that…If I want to sit out, if I’m trying to make a point, Deion Branch is a great example of making a point. Sitting out with a real pulled hamstring, that’s not the way to go. It’s sickening, actually. All the stuff I had to go through - the treatments, the surgery on my toe. There’s a shorter route to go than all the stuff I went through the last 10 weeks.”
He does have a point; the rehab and toe surgery would be taking things ridiculously far. We did hear, however, that Rae Carruth is now insisting he was simply holding out for a contract too.
- Smith responds angrily to holdout rumor (FOX Sports)
