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Pretty interesting.  The third paragraph really gets to the heart of who Alex Smith was as a player pretty much his whole career until last season.  Other than Tyreek Hill's emergence, maybe this is the biggest reason for the switch that seemed to flip for him last year (it might have taken a season or two for the lesson he learned to sink in)?

 

 

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1 minute ago, HTTRG3Dynasty said:

Pretty interesting.  The third paragraph really gets to the heart of who Alex Smith was as a player pretty much his whole career until last season.  Other than Tyreek Hill's emergence, maybe this is the biggest reason for the switch that seemed to flip for him last year (it might have taken a season or two for the lesson he learned to sink in)?

 

 

It's good advice for new graduates.

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Five teams who could surprise with an NFL Wild Card appearance in 2018

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Quarterback Kirk Cousins is out, but despite Cousins making more in Minnesota, the Redskins might actually be better off with Alex Smith after acquiring him from the Kansas City Chiefs via trade. Smith is coming off the highest graded season of his career at 87.2 last season, and has consistently graded at 80.3 or higher every season since 2011. Most impressive last season was how good Smith was throwing the ball downfield, tied for the league lead with 12 touchdowns on throws 20 yards or further downfield. “But Tyreek Hill!” I hear you scream. Yes, Hill helped Smith out, but only six of those deep touchdowns went to Hill as Smith still made plays downfield to other receivers. Furthermore, the Redskins added Paul Richardson, who himself had three deep receiving touchdowns in 2017 and they should have tight end Jordan Reed back healthy. Add in the talents of rookie running back Derrius Guice out of LSU and this offense could take a significant step forwards.

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We didn’t love the value in selecting Da’Ron Payne as high as they did, but he adds strength to their run defense, with 27 tackles resulting in a defensive stop against the run in his final season at Alabama. He rejoins his former teammate Jonathan Allen, who racked up three sacks, three hits and 10 hurries through his first five games before injury ended his rookie season. With more strength up front, the Redskins defense should be expected to improve too.

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10 hours ago, HTTRG3Dynasty said:

Five teams who could surprise with an NFL Wild Card appearance in 2018

WAS-Redskins-Header.png

Quarterback Kirk Cousins is out, but despite Cousins making more in Minnesota, the Redskins might actually be better off with Alex Smith after acquiring him from the Kansas City Chiefs via trade. Smith is coming off the highest graded season of his career at 87.2 last season, and has consistently graded at 80.3 or higher every season since 2011. Most impressive last season was how good Smith was throwing the ball downfield, tied for the league lead with 12 touchdowns on throws 20 yards or further downfield. “But Tyreek Hill!” I hear you scream. Yes, Hill helped Smith out, but only six of those deep touchdowns went to Hill as Smith still made plays downfield to other receivers. Furthermore, the Redskins added Paul Richardson, who himself had three deep receiving touchdowns in 2017 and they should have tight end Jordan Reed back healthy. Add in the talents of rookie running back Derrius Guice out of LSU and this offense could take a significant step forwards.

Alex-Smith-Deep-Pass-Yards-copy.jpg

We didn’t love the value in selecting Da’Ron Payne as high as they did, but he adds strength to their run defense, with 27 tackles resulting in a defensive stop against the run in his final season at Alabama. He rejoins his former teammate Jonathan Allen, who racked up three sacks, three hits and 10 hurries through his first five games before injury ended his rookie season. With more strength up front, the Redskins defense should be expected to improve too.

Love it, but facts don’t matter, the past failure of Redskins trades matter more... ugh! Sarcasm!! 

Also, Jon Allen only had one sack in his first 4.5 games, not 3. Not sure how hard it was for them to look that up. It’s why I predict he’ll have 5 - at most 7 sacks - next year instead of near 10. Allen gets doubled, that frees up Ioannidis and McGee to go one on one and will free up Payne and Lanier to go one on one too. 

Derrius Guice On Alex Smith Leading Redskins' Offense

https://youtu.be/k2UEr0aig84

 

 

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2 hours ago, turtle28 said:

Also, Jon Allen only had one sack in his first 4.5 games, not 3. Not sure how hard it was for them to look that up. It’s why I predict he’ll have 5 - at most 7 sacks - next year instead of near 10.

PFF keeps track of sacks themselves.  They count half-sacks as 1 sack.  They must have given Allen credit for an extra half-sack somewhere through the first 5 games that he wasn't given through other stat sources.

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12 hours ago, HTTRG3Dynasty said:

Five teams who could surprise with an NFL Wild Card appearance in 2018

WAS-Redskins-Header.png

Quarterback Kirk Cousins is out, but despite Cousins making more in Minnesota, the Redskins might actually be better off with Alex Smith after acquiring him from the Kansas City Chiefs via trade. Smith is coming off the highest graded season of his career at 87.2 last season, and has consistently graded at 80.3 or higher every season since 2011. Most impressive last season was how good Smith was throwing the ball downfield, tied for the league lead with 12 touchdowns on throws 20 yards or further downfield. “But Tyreek Hill!” I hear you scream. Yes, Hill helped Smith out, but only six of those deep touchdowns went to Hill as Smith still made plays downfield to other receivers. Furthermore, the Redskins added Paul Richardson, who himself had three deep receiving touchdowns in 2017 and they should have tight end Jordan Reed back healthy. Add in the talents of rookie running back Derrius Guice out of LSU and this offense could take a significant step forwards.

Alex-Smith-Deep-Pass-Yards-copy.jpg

We didn’t love the value in selecting Da’Ron Payne as high as they did, but he adds strength to their run defense, with 27 tackles resulting in a defensive stop against the run in his final season at Alabama. He rejoins his former teammate Jonathan Allen, who racked up three sacks, three hits and 10 hurries through his first five games before injury ended his rookie season. With more strength up front, the Redskins defense should be expected to improve too.

We've been a borderline NFC Wildcard team for years now.  Trading for Alex Smith doesn't change that.  We aren't a Super Bowl contender either.  Trading for Alex Smith doesn't change that.  

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17 minutes ago, MKnight82 said:

We've been a borderline NFC Wildcard team for years now.  Trading for Alex Smith doesn't change that.  We aren't a Super Bowl contender either.  Trading for Alex Smith doesn't change that.  

I think we're closer to being a SB contender now than we have been in a long time.  Of course, we'd have to be one of those teams that catches lightning in a bottle towards the end of the season to have a chance of actually winning one, but stranger things have happened.  No one thought of Philly as a SB contender this time last year.

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2 hours ago, MKnight82 said:

We've been a borderline NFC Wildcard team for years now.  Trading for Alex Smith doesn't change that.  We aren't a Super Bowl contender either.  Trading for Alex Smith doesn't change that.  

One player doesn’t make or break a team. Staying about equal at QB while improving your running back and your defense (on paper) improves your team.  

 

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