Alex Smith to miss 2019 Season

Honestly, I don't even care about the cap situation. That leg injury is so fucked up that I just want the guy to be able to live the rest of his life normally. Hopefully he doesn't have long term consequences from this. Not like we're winning the super bowl in the next 2 years anyways. Time to start stockpiling young talent and hoping we can be competitive in 2 or 3 years. Next year is probably a lost cause.

Too bad for Smith, always hate to see a career end this way.

The organization will move on assuming he won't come back I'd assume. I'm guessing we go after an established QB in FA since Gruden won't have the time to groom and deal with the ups and downs that come with a rookie QB. Unless he wins this year he has to know he's finished in DC.

As much as I disagree with it, I expect the team to mortgage the future and try to get some talent in the door in an effort to get us to the playoffs so he can salvage his job. Expect us to be competitive in the top 3-5 QBs on the market along with other players along with a lot of reworked contracts to open up cap space. I really hate the concept, but that's what you get with lame duck coaches that don't have a strong GM pulling the trigger on personnel decisions.

I am sure this was talked about, buried in some thread somewhere, but I do not want to go looking for it. What is the cap implications if Smith retires say at the most opportune time for the Redskins, say after 6/1/2019 or what is the best case scenario? Has this been talked about?

There is no difference between a player retiring and a player being cut from a cap stand point. Only difference is a player that is cut, can sign with another team.

If a player 'un-retires' he stays with his parent team until he is traded, or, cut.

For Smith: If he is on the roster on 3/17/2019, his 2020 salary is fully guaranteed. If he is released before that day and designated a post 6/1 release, he will count $21.5 million against the cap. Even if he retires, it does not change the cap hit.

The most economical would be to release him in his final year. But, due to his current health, that option is not practical.

It looks like to me that the best balance of cap and dead would be to release Smith in 2020 and designate him a post 6/1 release. That is the end of his third year and all guaranteed money of $71m has been paid.

By releasing him near the end of the 2020 league year and designating him a post 6/1 release, the cap hit play out like this:

2020 Dead Cap: $5,400,000
2021 Dead Cap: $10,800,000
2020 Cap Savings: $16,000,000

Heres my source if interested:
https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/washington-redskins/alex-smith-3337/

Wasn't sure where to post this, but I thought this would be at least an entertaining idea: Rumor is that the Bengals will probably dump Dalton this offseason (or try to trade him) and, separately, rumor is that the Bengals want Bill Callahan. If they just want to dump him, would you "trade" Callahan for Dalton?

PS, in case you couldn't tell, it's a slow day.

I don't see Dalton going anywhere unless the Bengals jump up in the draft. He's been a good QB for them

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This was floating around twitter. What do u guys thinkhttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190129/bcf196f73c91c85d8fd6c52b4831d80d.jpg

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There is no chance they trade for Dalton. They cannot afford to pay $40 million on QBs.

They can better spend money on a long term Brandon Scherff contract. And a few moderate priced free agents. S, OL, etc.

Hard pass on Red Rocket.

The max upside with Dalton is around 8 or 9 wins. No thanks. I don't want a QB that is just going to keep us competitive. We're just going to tread water w/ Dalton.

I don't want Dalton either, might as well have Kirk back. Both are about the same. Good QBs that cant win tough games

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