As we’ve noted before, Panthers wide receiver Steve Smith has given off indications several times that he’s not impressed with his young teammate Dwayne Jarrett.

There was the time Smith was asked about Jarrett’s performance and said only, “We’re all here to play football. That’s what we’re here to do.” There was the time Smith said of Jarrett, “You’re here to play football. You do the party scene at your own discretion, but on Sundays, we’re here to play football.” And there was the time Smith said to Jarrett, “Why don’t you go watch some film?”

But for Jarrett’s part, he insists that he and Smith get along just fine.

“We collided heads at times, but along the way he wanted the best for me,” Jarrett said Monday, per Steve Reed of CarolinaGrowl.com. “We just had that miscommunication between us and we worked things out. There’s no bad blood between us. I’m here every day working hard just like he is and I’m just trying to learn from him.”

In fact, Jarrett even said that Smith has acknowledged privately that he wishes he hadn’t been so critical of Jarrett publicly.

“[H]e came to me and said some things he wished he could have handled better as far as things he said in the past and got out — that kind of conflict between us that it was made to look like in the paper,” Jarrett said.

Smith was clearly frustrated with the disaster that was the Panthers’ passing game last season, and he obviously thinks that he wouldn’t have faced so much double coverage if Jarrett would have played better. If Jarrett does play better in 2008, Smith will likely get off his case. But if Smith perceives that Jarrett isn’t pulling his weight, we’ll probably hear more harsh words directed at Jarrett.