[sportscurmudgeon]

Unfortunately, Danny Boy has a bad habit of low-balling his current players. Sometimes it comes back to bite him - and the team - in the ass.

Remember they could have restructured Chirs Samuels in January for several million less as a signing bonus AND with a team option to get out of year 6 of his cotract. But Danny Boy decided to play hardball - translation: lowball him - and when the market ran away from him, he had to raise the bid fast or get nothing in terms of restructuring done with Samuels.

Pierce got more $$$ from NY - not a team known for wild and crazy spending.

They played hardball with Smoot too thinking that he would not command a better deal and would come back to them and they could hammer him some more. Sorry, another FO miscalculation.