"I came out for warm-ups and one of the front office guys came out and said, 'I need you to go back to the locker room,' " Smith said. "That was a sign. I didn't think I was going to get cut, but I knew something was up. I kept asking, 'What's going on? What's going on?' And nobody knew what was going on. They kept saying, 'Just stay here for a minute,' one of those deals.
"Kind of a strange experience. You think you're going to get up and go to work, and everything changes in a few minutes."
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"I started my career there on the nose, but mainly I was Ty Warren's backup at the one end.
