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Originally Posted by 56FAN
the contract offer we made was nearly idnetical if not the same. but it was structerd differently. that's why buges said so much for being a life long skin.he made the choice, he thought he'd get 13mil signing bonus and we offerd 11mil. he signed with minn for an 11 mil signing bonus.he should have made the choice to stay.i would love to have him back but i feel we made a good effort to sign peirce and smoot and they choose to walk away for contracts that were basically the same but structerd differently to help with the cap and they walked.sala ve.hope he enjoys watching us in the playoffs.
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The contract came down to one thing, money. Smoots contract with the Vikings guaranteed 6 million a year for the first 3 years. He would not have made that much with the skins until the last two years. The signign bonus was fine with him, which was about a two million differnce. He basically, which is the way the NFL is, took the money and ran to an awful team in a pretty crappy town. No disrespect to those people, if any, from Minnesota.