Steve Smith corrects report about his exit pay from Panthers
By Dan Zinski
Steve Smith got a whole butt load of money from the Carolina Panthers over the years, including $3 million in guaranteed salary and deferred bonuses sent to his bank account after he departed Carolina for Baltimore.
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Or was that actually $5 million in go-away pay he got from the Panthers? There seems to be some dispute about this.
Pro Football Talk, in a tweet during Sunday’s Baltimore-Cincinnati game, placed the figure at the low end.
Panthers paid Steve Smith $3 million to leave instead of $7 million to keep him.
— ProFootballTalk (@ProFootballTalk) September 7, 2014
When Steve Smith saw the tweet, he wasn’t so much ticked at the suggestion that he was paid to go away, he was more upset that PFT under-reported the kiss-off money.
Whether Smith got $3 million from the Panthers or $5 million, one thing is certain: the Panthers gave Smith more money to get lost than they would have had to pay him to keep him on their roster.
That probably still stings Smith’s butt a little bit, but if so, he has plenty of money with which to purchase an entire array of creams, balms and unguents.
And if those remedies aren’t enough, he can always turn to Twitter snark as a way of easing the pain on his soul.
Or he can just dish out agony to opposing defenses. Yeah, that one.