{"id":782250,"date":"2026-02-28T13:42:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T13:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/782250\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T13:42:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T13:42:14","slug":"steve-smith-blasts-dave-gettleman-ron-rivera-when-recalling-his-messy-exit-from-panthers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/782250\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Smith blasts Dave Gettleman, Ron Rivera when recalling his messy exit from Panthers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Feb. 28, 2026, 6:31 a.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Steve Smith Sr. just put all the blood and guts out on the table.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">On the latest episode of his YouTube Show, 89, Smith looked back the events that led up to his ugly divorce from the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/carolina-panthers\/364\" data-autotag=\"8afac4d1-41b4-4302-b154-b45f5b48a0d2\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Carolina Panthers<\/a>. The messy breakup went down following the 2013 campaign, with then-general manager Dave Gettleman entering his second year with the organization and then-head coach Ron Rivera entering his fourth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">And as Smith recalls, he wasn&#8217;t a very big fan of either . . .<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"gnt_em_vp_a gnt_em_vp__yt_a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DXV7xBElO-o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-g-r=\"vp_tg\" aria-label=\"Play YouTube video\" data-v-t=\"Steve Smith Sr. UNLEASHED: The Truth About My Panthers Exit &amp; Why It\u2019s Personal\"><img alt=\"\" class=\"gnt_em_vp_img gnt_em_vp_img__yn\" data-g-r=\"lazy\" data-gl-src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/DXV7xBElO-o\/maxresdefault.jpg\" onload=\"if(this.naturalWidth&lt;200){this.setAttribute('onload','this.classList.remove(\\'gnt_em_vp_img__yn\\')');this.src=\" https:=\"\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">After playing 13 years in Carolina, Smith would sign with the Baltimore Ravens in 2014. He\u2019d proceed to taste some sweet revenge in Week 4 of that campaign, bruising up Rivera&#8217;s Panthers for a season-high 139 receiving yards and two touchdowns en route to a 38-10 win.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Smith finished out his NFL career as a Raven in 2016 and still stands as the Panthers\u2019 all-time leading pass catcher.<\/p>\n<p>Expert NFL picks: <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":body nav (nfl)|e|auto spike click:5|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_sp_a\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/picks\">Exclusive betting insights only at USA TODAY.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Follow\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ThePanthersWire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">@ThePanthersWire<\/a>\u00a0on Twitter\/X for more Panthers content.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Feb. 28, 2026, 6:31 a.m. ET Steve Smith Sr. just put all the blood and guts out on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":782251,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2075],"tags":[95878,235,260,2567,7,6,236,97114,97115,95882,96059,95896,95888,95895,95899,100315,95883,97278,95894,95881],"class_list":{"0":"post-782250","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-carolina-panthers","8":"tag-accessfree","9":"tag-carolina","10":"tag-carolina-panthers","11":"tag-carolinapanthers","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-nfl","14":"tag-panthers","15":"tag-sstssportsnflpanthers","16":"tag-sstsnpanthers","17":"tag-tagamerican-football","18":"tag-tagcarolina-panthers","19":"tag-tagnational-sports","20":"tag-tagnfl","21":"tag-tagnfl-hub","22":"tag-tagoverall-neutral","23":"tag-tagron-rivera","24":"tag-tagsports-news","25":"tag-tagsteve-smith-sr","26":"tag-tagtwitter","27":"tag-typestory"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116148551546484139","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=782250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/782251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=782250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=782250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=782250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}