Alex Smith, the quarterback of the Washington Football Team, addressed the franchise in an interview this week, saying that the team did not want me after having a wonderful return from a serious leg injury, and hesitated to to give him a ‘decent shake’. once Smith is back on the active roster. However, when Dwayne Haskins struggled early and Kyle Allen was injured, Smith eventually returned to the field against the Los Angeles Rams on October 11 and retained the starting spot until he suffered a calf injury by the end of the regular season. .
Smith completed 66.7 percent of his passes for 1,582 yards, six touchdowns and eight interceptions in eight games played in 2020, but he was an impressive 5-1 as an appetizer. Washington eventually finished with a 7-9 record and won its first NFC East title since 2015 mainly due to Smith, who was named the NFL Comeback Player of the Year in 2020. It was clearly a few years for Smith, but what would cause him to verbally attack his current team? This is something that 106.7 The fan’s allowance Paulsen was looking to discover, and when he spoke to several people in and around the Washington Football Team, he came up with two primary cases that exacerbated Smith’s frustration.
An example that believes Smith’s camp rubbed wrong took place before Washington’s important game against the Philadelphia Eagles. The winner of this game would claim the NFC East and score a playoff spot, and Smith’s 4-1 record was a big reason why Washington sat in this favorable spot. A Washington head coach Ron Rivera listened to a softball question and asked Rivera if Washington would be in the position without Smith. Instead of praising his best fullback, Rivera went a different way with it.
‘Well, if we had a healthy Kyle Allen, I think we could do it. I really did it, “Rivera said via The Team 980.” I think we could do it. And a big part of the reason for this is because Kyle, he’s very similar to Alex in terms of his abilities. He has the same kind of arm. He makes good decisions like Alex. He has good footwork. I think we could have been. I do. ‘
The other case that apparently upset Smith did not start in Washington’s playoff game. While Smith started and won the most important game in Philly, he was clearly hampered by the calf injury he had sustained a few weeks earlier. Reports appear in the run-up to the Super Wild-Card Weekend game against Washington against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers that Smith may be inactive, and sure enough, it was Taylor Heinicke who got the start. Heinicke turned his impressive performance into the 31-23 loss in a two-year extension with Washington, but the franchise is reportedly not finished.
Washington could save nearly $ 15 million by releasing Smith this season, and it’s fair to speculate that he knows something we do not know about his immediate future.