[sportscurmudgeon]

Face it. Teams use players - and former players solidly identified with the team - to help influence other free agent players to come play for them. Remember a year ago when everyone here was falling all over themselves to praise Darrel Green for his role in talking to Mark Brunell about how great it was to play for Joe Gibbs. Of course, that was before Brunell showed that his tank was empty, but no one knew that then...

Champ left town "unhappy". I suspect that Smoot is not "thrilled". Let's not even thik that L.Coles might have a nice word to say about Danny Boy. Anyone heard a good word from Brad Johnson or Stephen Davis recently about the Redskins organization? Most of the folks who leave town are less than fully satisfied with what went down here.

Meanwhile, the guys here picking up fat paychecks tend to be a bit more satisfied with their lot in life. Surprising? Not to me...

And under these circumstances, you find a reason to "hate" Champ Bailey?