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Alex Smith trade could sentence the Redskins to long-term mediocrity

The Kirk Cousins contract saga began with the Washington Redskins reticent to commit Rolls-Royce money to merely a nice and reliable automobile. It shifted when Cousins grew far more enamored with freedom than security. Then finally, mercifully, strangely, two unnerving years of limbo ended Tuesday night during the State of the Union address, in the middle of Super Bowl hype and with those infamously imprudent, burgundy-stained decision-makers hurling the franchise from one dilemma to the next.

You could scratch your head raw pondering the outcome: The team reticent to commit Rolls-Royce money to merely a nice and reliable automobile just traded a third-round pick and a good 22-year-old cornerback to the Kansas City Chiefs for Alex Smith, who is merely a nice and reliable automobile.