Steve Smith, who’s now being linked to anger management issues across the world over the last five years, seems to be fairly apologetic about his scrap — if it can be called that, given how one-sided it was — with cornerback Ken Lucas.

Smith returned to practice on Monday and, unlike many stars who get suspended for two games, appears to be taking complete and full blame.

“I’m completely wrong,” Smith said in a rambling, four-minute meeting with reporters that ended with him declining to answer questions. “It was an asinine decision. And I’ll move forward better than I probably have ever had to. It’s the first time in my life that I really haven’t forgiven myself.”

The bad news about all this is now Smith won’t be in the Panthers first game, where he would have been paired against Antonio Cromartie pretty much the whole game. The good news is that the second game of the year I’m playing the guy who drafted Smith in my fantasy league, and Smith would be set to play the Bears, where he generally gains 600 yards and gets 7 or 8 touchdowns per game.

And if I meet this guy in the playoffs, Steve, maybe you can jack Delhomme for me.