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Brady HendersonESPN
Professional Bowl quarterback Geno Smith informed SiriusXM NFL Radio on Friday that contract talks with the Seattle Seahawks are underway and the prospects of the 2 sides reaching a deal are “wanting excellent.”
Smith, 32, is scheduled to change into an unrestricted free agent in March.
“We have had talks and we’re within the strategy of getting all that settled proper now,” Smith stated from the Professional Bowl in Las Vegas in an interview that aired Friday afternoon. “It is wanting excellent. We expect we will get some issues performed, however clearly these issues take time. That is the method that I hate in regards to the NFL as a result of I simply wish to play soccer, but it surely’s a enterprise as properly, so we have got to maintain enterprise after which we’ll get again to the soccer.”
Smith was one of many largest surprises of the 2022 NFL season. A backup for many of the previous seven years, he received the Seahawks’ beginning job following the Russell Wilson commerce and delivered a Professional Bowl season, main the league in completion proportion, ending sixth in Whole QBR and breaking a number of of Wilson’s single-season franchise data.
The one-year deal he signed final April included a base worth of $3.5 million. Smith made one other $3.5 million incentives.
Coach Pete Carroll stated a number of occasions he hopes the Seahawks can convey again Smith, although he stopped wanting declaring it will occur, regardless that Seattle may guarantee that consequence through the franchise tag within the absence of a multiyear deal. Extra just lately, Seahawks basic supervisor John Schneider informed Seattle’s Sports activities Radio 93.3 KJR-FM that he thinks they will re-sign Smith.
Smith’s contract additionally got here up throughout his look on The Pivot Podcast, which was revealed to YouTube on Friday. Smith declined to specify the scale of the contract he is searching for however stated he “would like to be in Seattle” and expressed confidence that he’ll be again.
“I really like Seattle,” Smith stated. “We’ve an awesome relationship and I believe we’ll work issues out. Relating to contracts, I believe each participant simply needs to receives a commission his value. And it is humorous as a result of an awesome pal of mine tells me, it doesn’t matter what test they write, it’s going to by no means be your value as a result of your value is not in cash, it is not in financial issues. So that you simply wish to be revered. Your contract simply needs to say, we respect you, we perceive what you convey to the desk, we perceive what caliber of participant you might be, and we respect you. That is actually all it comes right down to.”