Malcolm Smith, LB

Originally posted by Jcool:

Originally posted by Hawaii49er:

Originally posted by jcs:

Originally posted by Jcool:

Originally posted by okdkid:
Mike Garafolo @MikeGarafolo
LB Malcolm Smith's deal w/ SF a strong one: Five years, $26.5 million with $13m guaranteed, source says. (Up from his $3.5 per year w/ Oak.)

Way overpaid...

That's a 5.3 million avg for a guy who's had over 100 Tackles each of the last two years who fits a need and has experience in the system we what to implement. I think it's more than fair.

Sound logic. Thus far we see a trend with Shanalynch (Lynchshanity for the Asian peeps) draft talented key support players that know their system on both sides of the field (Malcolm Smith, Logan Paulsen, Brian Hoyer) to facilitate the transition. I'm loving the other skill position signings as well.

Originally posted by Jcool:

Originally posted by okdkid:
Mike Garafolo @MikeGarafolo
LB Malcolm Smith's deal w/ SF a strong one: Five years, $26.5 million with $13m guaranteed, source says. (Up from his $3.5 per year w/ Oak.)

Way overpaid...

Originally posted by thl408:

Originally posted by Jcool:

Originally posted by okdkid:
Mike Garafolo @MikeGarafolo
LB Malcolm Smith's deal w/ SF a strong one: Five years, $26.5 million with $13m guaranteed, source says. (Up from his $3.5 per year w/ Oak.)

Way overpaid...

Would you say the contract is... hard to swallow?

http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/seahawks/2015/01/29/malcolm-smith-super-bowl-xlviii-mvp-achalasia-seattle/22558657/
Smith, 25, takes greatest satisfaction from his ongoing ability to deal with achalasia, a rare disorder that affects around one in 100,000 people and makes eating a painstaking and uncomfortable process.
It regularly takes Smith more than an hour to complete his meals, which is why he usually finds a lone spot at the lunch table and does his own thing. Achalasia impedes the swallowing functions of the esophagus, causing sufferers to regurgitate mid-meal, even with taking measures such as a special chewing technique, using tiny bites and avoiding certain foods.

Originally posted by Bimbo_Coles:

I think this deal spells the end of Hodges returning. Our LB depth chart now looks like:

SAM – Brooks/Harold
MIKE – Bowman/Armstrong
WILL – Smith/Armstrong

That is not a terrible place to be going into the draft. But there is still room to add a guy like Hightower who can play the SAM and the MIKE.

Originally posted by SofaKing:

Originally posted by Jcool:

So a couple good years in Seattle. Not so great with the Raiders. I wonder how the Raiders used him. I've tried looking it up, seems like they had him at MLB at times. I can see him getting exposed there. But as a WILL linebacker, he'd do fine imo.

Originally posted by NCommand:

Originally posted by jcs:

Originally posted by Jcool:

Originally posted by okdkid:
Mike Garafolo @MikeGarafolo
LB Malcolm Smith's deal w/ SF a strong one: Five years, $26.5 million with $13m guaranteed, source says. (Up from his $3.5 per year w/ Oak.)

Way overpaid...

That's a 5.3 million avg for a guy who's had over 100 Tackles each of the last two years who fits a need and has experience in the system we what to implement. I think it's more than fair.

TK noting it's really $4.3M a year.

Originally posted by thl408:

Originally posted by Jcool:

Originally posted by okdkid:

Mike Garafolo @MikeGarafolo
LB Malcolm Smith's deal w/ SF a strong one: Five years, $26.5 million with $13m guaranteed, source says. (Up from his $3.5 per year w/ Oak.)

Way overpaid...

Would you say the contract is... hard to swallow?

http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/seahawks/2015/01/29/malcolm-smith-super-bowl-xlviii-mvp-achalasia-seattle/22558657/
Smith, 25, takes greatest satisfaction from his ongoing ability to deal with achalasia, a rare disorder that affects around one in 100,000 people and makes eating a painstaking and uncomfortable process.
It regularly takes Smith more than an hour to complete his meals, which is why he usually finds a lone spot at the lunch table and does his own thing. Achalasia impedes the swallowing functions of the esophagus, causing sufferers to regurgitate mid-meal, even with taking measures such as a special chewing technique, using tiny bites and avoiding certain foods.

Originally posted by NorthBay49er:

he's better than wilhoite/skov/bellore so idgaf

I mean he is better than them...right?

Originally posted by Bimbo_Coles:
I think this deal spells the end of Hodges returning. Our LB depth chart now looks like:

SAM – Brooks/Harold
MIKE – Bowman/Armstrong
WILL – Smith/Armstrong

That is not a terrible place to be going into the draft. But there is still room to add a guy like Hightower who can play the SAM and the MIKE.

Originally posted by saniner:

Originally posted by SofaKing:

Originally posted by Jcool:

So a couple good years in Seattle. Not so great with the Raiders. I wonder how the Raiders used him. I've tried looking it up, seems like they had him at MLB at times. I can see him getting exposed there. But as a WILL linebacker, he'd do fine imo.

Yeah this shows he's a good fit for our system given how he did in Seattle. Saleh was quality control there so he knows how Smith fits

Originally posted by NCommand:

Originally posted by LasVegasWally:

Originally posted by Kolohe:

Originally posted by NCommand:

Originally posted by Kolohe:

Originally posted by NeeJ49er:

Originally posted by Lifer:
We need multiple additions at LB and DT in order to address the soft chewy center of the defense. I like Smith as part of the mix but would expect the team to remain active in the LB market. I still like Zach Brown.

same here, Zach Brown is still on my wish list

Brown is gonna cost some money, I much rather use the cap space to try and sign Terrelle Pryor .

We still have $96M less Malcolm Smith's deal which I'm projecting to be around $4M anyhow. We good!

#SignEveryone!

Wait, after hitting up 5 free agent they still have $96 million?

Oh, how sweet it is!

And all of these are front loaded contacts. For instance, Kyle Juszczyk, has $7.5 paid up front so from years 2-4, it's only a $4.5M hit. Garcon, same concept. In fact, all of these contracts will be structured in a similar manner. A potential, $121.5M is an insane amount of cap space and can be stretched out sooooo many ways.

We haven't made a dent so far!