The free agency quarterback market is said to grow by one in the coming days – and when the recent report from NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport and Kim Jones becomes a reality, the Miami Dolphins will have the perfect candidate to take on their backup quarterback role. to step on the grid.
Rapoport tweeted news on Monday that Washington Football Team quarterback Alex Smith is ready to be cut by the team.
The Washington Football Team is expected to say goodbye to QB Alex Smith in the coming days, sources tell me and @KimJonesSportsThe AP Comeback Player of the Year has said he still wants to play, and at the age of 36, might get a chance to do so. ”
Smith is an excellent candidate to step into a backup role at Miami. Because, like Ryan Fitzpatrick, he won’t serve as a long-term threat to the Dolphins’ development of quarterback Tua Tagovailoa. But, unlike Fitzpatrick, Smith doesn’t offer the sweat power that earned him the confidence and loyalty of so many of his teammates – it created an uncomfortable dynamic in Miami towards the end of the 2020 season when Fitzpatrick loomed on the bench and during several performances. the second half of the season; better than Tagovailoa in both cases.
Smith continues to bring a lot of experience to the game as the # 1 overall pick in the 2005 NFL Draft; Having signed 167 starts in the NFL and making a miraculous comeback from a horrific leg injury that not only nearly ended his playing career but also took his life.
If you consider Smith’s playing style prior to his 2018 Washington injury, Smith was a surefire passer with good but not great mobility – not dissimilar to the qualities Tua Tagovailoa offers the dolphins. And Smith knows a lot about uninspired starts. Yes, Tagovailoa fell short of his own expectations despite a 6-3 record as the team’s starter in 2020. But the bar he has set is well above Alex Smith’s first three seasons with San Francisco from 2005-08.
Smith posted 30 starts over those three seasons, registering a record of 11-19, had two seasons of 50% completion or worse, and offered a 19-33 touchdown-to-interception ratio. But Smith miraculously turned his career around in San Francisco, leaving the team in 2013 with a record of 38-36-1 with the 49ers before manning the runway in Kansas City for five seasons (and a record of 50-26) . If Alex Smith can get through the kind of season he posted as a rookie and change things up, imagine the lessons he could teach Tagovailoa.
And unlike Fitzpatrick, Smith won’t have a longer tenure on the team than the young quarterback – meaning the locker room dynamics will remain comfortable in favor of the dolphin quarterback of the future.