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2018 NFL off-season thread: Mr. Alex Smith goes to Washington

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by LongTimeListener, Jan 30, 2018.

  1. Deskgrunt50

    Deskgrunt50 Well-Known Member

    “How do you like me now?”

    Apparently not very much, Kirk.

    Strange move. Someone will pay Cousins big money.
     
  2. Slacker

    Slacker Well-Known Member

  3. QYFW

    QYFW Well-Known Member

    In case anyone gets excited about Smith's career year, he will operate in D.C. with huge downgrades at RB, WR and TE. The Skins are gonna suck.
     
  4. Double Down

    Double Down Well-Known Member

    This is the best thing that could have happened to Kirk Cousins. Get as far away from this garbage organization as possible and not get locked into Bruce Snyder making decisions about your teammates just because you can't pass on $35 million.
     
  5. cjericho

    cjericho Well-Known Member

    You don't think they'll make any other moves? Would think Pryor is gone and they get someone better.
     
  6. cjericho

    cjericho Well-Known Member

    Bruce Snyder?
     
  7. QYFW

    QYFW Well-Known Member

    Doctson and Crowder are better than Pryor but neither is a playmaker on the level of Tyreek Hill. Jordan Reed can't stay on the field. The backfield is a dumpster fire. I'm sure they'll try to make some moves in free agency but when has that worked out for this regime? It's not going to be Smith's fault but the Redskins are going to struggle for a while.
     
  8. mpcincal

    mpcincal Well-Known Member

    He's calling the shots from the grave? No wonder the organization is so messed up. :)
     
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  9. DanOregon

    DanOregon Well-Known Member

    Bruce Snyder's career record is 20 games over .500, Dan Snyder's 40 below.
     
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  10. Della9250

    Della9250 Well-Known Member

    If you are going to give Smith that extension, why not just go a little more and just keep Cousins -- say 5 for 117.5 with 90 guaranteed?
     
  11. da man

    da man Well-Known Member

    The coverage of this in the Washington papers so far is interesting. The story by the Post's beat writers frames this move an an unequivocal win for the Redskins:

    "Meanwhile, the Redskins get a proven quarterback who is coming off the best season of his career. Better still, they get stability at their most important position, which no doubt will please Coach Jay Gruden, who earlier this month made clear he had grown weary of not knowing from one year to the next whether Cousins was returning.

    The trade for Smith represents a sorely needed victory for Redskins owner Daniel Snyder and Allen, who in the view of several NFL executives had mishandled contract talks with Cousins and faced the financially untenable prospect of paying him $34.5 million — on top of the roughly $44 million they had paid Cousins under back-to-back franchise tags — to keep him under wraps for a third one-year deal."

    The Times, meanwhile, offers this from columnist Thom Loverro:

    "Years from now, when anthropologists are studying the Washington Redskins, they will wonder, among many things, why the Redskins were not able to keep the 29-year-old quarterback in their own building who threw for 13,176 yards, 89 touchdowns and 36 interceptions over the past three years while not missing a single start.

    The Redskins better hope that on his best day, Alex Smith is a good as Kirk Cousins."
     
  12. Michael_ Gee

    Michael_ Gee Well-Known Member

    I am higher on Smith than many on this board and elsewhere, but it still seems like a sideways move for Washington at best.
     
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