A peek behind the scenes of the Smith trade

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Smith goes from tense to traded - The Denver Post

"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.

 

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Re: A peak behind the scenes of the Smith trade

I'm guessing, given the other possibility, he was relieved more than he was disappointed. The fact that he was traded to a McDaniels means he was viewed highly enough to be traded for while he was facing stiff competition.