Regarding your side note: When someone calls a football player soft, it doesn’t mean they are weak or couldn’t kick the guys ass. Soft means doesn’t want to work hard, doesn't accept rules and discipline, doesn’t take care of the little things, doesn’t show commitment to the overall process, doesn’t get IT. Of course Smoke is an athletic hard nosed freak of a DB that can lay any guy out, but he doesn’t get IT. Don’t you agree? Another sample, Tom Brady is not soft.