The free agency quarterback market is expected to grow by one in the next few days – and when the recent report by Ian Rapoport and Kim Jones of the NFL Network comes true, the Miami Dolphins will have the perfect candidate to take on the role of backup quarterback. . the list.
Rapoport tweeted on Monday that Washington Football Team quarterback Alex Smith is ready to be cut by the team.
“The Washington Football Team is expected to split from QB Alex Smith in the next few days, sources said and @KimJonesSports. AP Comeback Player of the Year said he still wants to play, and at 36 he may have a chance to do so. ”
Smith is one of the main candidates to take on a reserve role in Miami. Because he, not unlike Ryan Fitzpatrick, will not be a long-term threat to the development of quarterback Tua Tagovailoa by the Dolphins. But, unlike Fitzpatrick, Smith doesn’t offer the sweat equity that earned him the confidence and loyalty of so many of his teammates – creating a strange dynamic in Miami at the end of the 2020 season, when Fitzpatrick appeared on the bench and did several appearances throughout the second half of the season; surpassing Tagovailoa in both cases.
Smith still brings a lot of experience to the game as the No. 1 overall choice in the 2005 NFL Draft; having recorded 167 games in the NFL and making a miraculous return from a terrible leg injury that not only nearly ended his playing career, but also took his life.
If you consider Smith’s style of play before his 2018 injury in Washington, Smith was an accurate passer with good, but not great mobility – not unlike the characteristics that Your Tagovailoa offers the Dolphins. And Smith knows a lot about uninspiring beginnings. Yes, Tagovailoa did not live up to his own expectations, despite a 6-3 record as a team starter in 2020. But the barrier he set is well above Alex Smith’s first three seasons with San Francisco from 2005-2008.
Smith posted 30 games over the course of those three seasons and set a record of 11-19, had two seasons of 50% completion or worse and offered a touchdown-to-intercept ratio of 19-33. But Smith miraculously changed his career in San Francisco, leaving the team in 2013 with a 38-36-1 record with the 49ers before taking over as Kansas City starter for five seasons (and a 50-26 record). If Alex Smith can endure the kind of season he posted as a rookie and turn things around, imagine the lessons he could give Tagovailoa.
And unlike Fitzpatrick, Smith will not have a longer term on the team than the young quarterback – which means that the dynamics of the locker room will remain comfortably in favor of the future Dolphins quarterback.