you folks are serious about a trade - what GM on the planet is going to give us higher than a 5th for rhodes..... come on guys - rhodes was a 4th round selection. u RARELY get an equal or higher choice in a trade, especially at the safety position. i would sign up for a 4th in a heartbeat. it would be much easier to package him in a deal that involves swapping draft choices. jil
he proved he had potential a couple years ago. Just like Braylon, he was an emerging star and then started sucking. Braylon changed environments and got better (not great but better), they may see that in Rhodes
Trade him and draft someone to eventually take over. In the mean time, with a year in the system under his belt, i think Smith is a hold the fort guy.
the problem i see with trading him is that if we shop him around and nobody bites for a trade then we are stuck with him and he holds all the cards in his hand. Then he will either play with a chip on his shoulder or play disgruntled and will be like last season.
Eric Smith isn't terrible in coverage but isn't very good either (See Jets 2008). As crappy as Rhodes played he did a decent/good job on a few good TE's. Smith is a situational S that plays the runs pretty well. Granted, I haven't seen Smith play Safety in Rex's system full-time, but maybe he'll understand it better than Rhodes. As of right now, I wouldn't consider Smith on the same level as Rhodes therefore creating another hole.
I think you have to draw a line in the sand as to what his value is, and accept nothing less for it. Otherwise you keep him...
IMO we gotta trade this guy; he played better in the playoffs, but the prancing pony and his overzealous celebrations after routine tackles have no place in our hard nose defense. Why keep a guy around that breaks apart the dressingroom. Perhaps he will be staying though considering we just fired our CB coach. Trade this guy for a decent draft pick.
