Update: Steve Smith suspended 2 gms for fight with Ken Lucas...(Pics Post #37)

[MarionBarberThe4th]

sowwy I bokeed yer fwace

 

[Everlastingxxx]

Hopefully they can keep beating each other up into last place.

 

[Pick6TerenceNewman]

Carolina Panthers' Steve Smith (#89, standing) reaches out to Ken Lucas (#21) under a tent on the practice field after the two got into an altercation during the morning session of training camp at Wofford College on Friday in Spartanburg, SC. Lucas was holding an ice pack to the left side of his face. He was later carted off during the practice. DAVID T. FOSTER [email protected] (Staff Photographer)

Thanks for posting pictures. If Lucas is hurt bad, some say broken orbital, he should be suspended, fined and sued. This reminds me of when Romonowski was with the Raiders he punched the TE in the eye and ended his career.

 

[MarionBarberThe4th]

Hopefully they can keep beating each other up into last place

i hope they get the #2 seed

 

[fortdick]

Smith's Napoleonic Complex.

He thinks he's Danny Snyder?

 

[Da Hammer]

Smith looks to be a huge ******... awesme player though

 

[Clove]

It's a fight, so what? Welcome to football where sometimes people just flat out loses it. This happens sometimes, should happen more often IMO, but I'm glad it doesn't.

Give him a small team suspension and fine, and get on with football. No big deal.

 

[Pick6TerenceNewman]

He thinks he's Danny Snyder?

There are some reports that Fox may have no choice but to suspend Smith because this is his second fight and depending on how bad the injury is could dictate how severe the suspension could be.

 

[newlander]

Geez, a punk like Westbrook SUCKER PUNCHES Davis and it's now legend that he kicked his butt? WEAK BRO. I wouldn't doubt it if Smith did the same thing. You can't tell me the average DB couldn't whip a WR's arse. Seriously, Smith is trash.

 

[Pick6TerenceNewman]

SHOULD STEVE SMITH BE SUSPENDED?
Posted by Mike Florio on August 1, 2008, 3:18 p.m. EDT
Our buddy Chris McClain of WFNZ in Charlotte tells us that phone lines at the station are buzzing with Panthers fans who think that receiver Steve Smith should be suspended after pounding the crap out of teammate Ken Lucas.

Smith has been sent home by the Panthers in the wake of the incident, but no discipline has been imposed.

Meanwhile, there are rumors that Lucas suffered a broken orbital bone in the attack, which could impact his availability for preseason games, and possibly for the regular season.

Under the Collective Bargaining Agreement, a player may be suspended for up to four games without pay for conduct detrimental to the team. With Smith earning a base salary of $1.75 million in 2008, such a move could cost him more than $411,000. He also could be required to reimburse the team for 25 percent of his 2008 signing bonus allocation.

The bigger question is whether coach John Fox and G.M. Marty Hurney can afford not to have Smith around for four games, given that both men could be on the hot seat. Sending a message to the team by punishing a star player might have value, but if it greases the skids for four losses, Fox and Hurney might not be the guys who enjoy the long-term benefits of such muscle-flexing.

 

[lkelly]

I wonder what started it.

He thought Lucas was Deangelo Hall.

 

[TheSkaven]

Not a team player.

People said the same thing about Terrell Owens.

In Steve Smith, here is a guy who cares deeply about winning, and plays every down like his last. He'll go toe to toe with any d-back in the league. During one game last year, he played with the flu, and was throwing up in trash cans between series. He had two catches, two touchdowns, and puked his guts out.

Tell me you don't want a guy like that on your team.

 

[dargonking999]

It's a fight, so what? Welcome to football where sometimes people just flat out loses it. This happens sometimes, should happen more often IMO, but I'm glad it doesn't.

Give him a small team suspension and fine, and get on with football. No big deal.

There is a difference between a scuffle on the field between lineman who match up against each other in the trenches

its a whole different thing, when a WR beats the crap out of a CB because he didn't like what was said

not to mention he has a history of such violence (See prior incident in video room, and cowboys panthers game 2006)

This isnt the first time, and it won't be the last. The team needs to send a very clear message that he needs to get his act together, or play somewhere else.

 

[I LOVE ME SOME ME!]

People said the same thing about Terrell Owens.

In Steve Smith, here is a guy who cares deeply about winning, and plays every down like his last. He'll go toe to toe with any d-back in the league. During one game last year, he played with the flu, and was throwing up in trash cans between series. He had two catches, two touchdowns, and puked his guts out.

Tell me you don't want a guy like that on your team.

Steve Smith had to fight for everything he has right now. It takes time to get out of that mindframe. Just ask Terrell Owens. Alot of people on this board can't relate.

 

[TNCowboy]

People said the same thing about Terrell Owens.

In Steve Smith, here is a guy who cares deeply about winning, and plays every down like his last. He'll go toe to toe with any d-back in the league. During one game last year, he played with the flu, and was throwing up in trash cans between series. He had two catches, two touchdowns, and puked his guts out.

Tell me you don't want a guy like that on your team.

Terrell Owens has sucker punched and hospitalized teammates on 2 different occasions? I can count on no fingers the times I've suckerpunched someone in my life. I would hope you could say the same.

I remember a fight TO had with Hugh Douglas, when he was no longer a player, and that doesn't seem to be anything like the situation we're hearing on Smith, once again.

No team - or any organization for that matter - can tolerate a dangerously violent player like Steve Smith. If Goodell and/or the Panthers have any ethics at all, he shouldn't just be suspended for 4 games, but for the season if not longer.

What's next? Does Smith have to kill someone before the Panthers and the league accept that he's a violent thug?

 

[dargonking999]

People said the same thing about Terrell Owens.

In Steve Smith, here is a guy who cares deeply about winning, and plays every down like his last. He'll go toe to toe with any d-back in the league. During one game last year, he played with the flu, and was throwing up in trash cans between series. He had two catches, two touchdowns, and puked his guts out.

Tell me you don't want a guy like that on your team.

Not if i have to hope that he doesn't start wailing on my teamates, or losing his temper and getting thrown out of games.

He may care about winning but at some point and time, you have to learn to control your anger. He's been in the league too long to be fighting teammates because you don't like what was said. This wasn't even on the field, this was off the field on the sidelines, there is no excuse for that, and no reason. he either needs to get control of himself, or just quit.

 

[Hostile]

If Carolina is done with Smith (he has had these issues before and been suspended) I'd love to acquire him opposite TO.

~swoon~

 

[Boysboy]

People said the same thing about Terrell Owens.

In Steve Smith, here is a guy who cares deeply about winning, and plays every down like his last. He'll go toe to toe with any d-back in the league. During one game last year, he played with the flu, and was throwing up in trash cans between series. He had two catches, two touchdowns, and puked his guts out.

Tell me you don't want a guy like that on your team.

Steve Smith's problems never had anything to do with being a team cancer, it's been his anger management.

Remember that game against us in '05 where he got blew his gasget, went after a ref, and got tossed out. Probably costed the Panthers that game.

He's costed Carolina a couple of other games with his outbursts.

 

[AsthmaField]

This isnt the first time, and it won't be the last. The team needs to send a very clear message that he needs to get his act together, or play somewhere else.

I agree. Send him to Dallas.


Please?

 

[BALKIS]

Sounds like smith needs to take sime anger management classes.