Nav22;2978378 said:
Wrong. Smith lit him up in the wildcard game of January 2004 and again in 2007, the last time we faced Carolina before last night.
Yes, Smith had a great wildcard game against Dallas with Newman playing perhaps his worst game of his rookie season that night.
Smith did not light up Newman in 2007. He had 9 catches for 137 yards and 1 TD, which is his only good regular season game he has had against Dallas. Most of that came against Jacques Reeves. Reeves definitely gave up the long TD pass to Smith that night.
That means in the 5 other regular season games that Smith has faced Dallas he has 19 catches, 215 yards and 0 TDs.
Dallas does a very good job of shutting down Steve Smith and Newman has a lot to do with that.