No Redskins player was more brash than Fred Smoot during his first tenure in Washington. If he wasn't talking trash to opposing receivers on the field, he was talking smack to anyone in the locker room who would listen.
But battered physically and mentally the past two years with the Minnesota Vikings, Smoot desperately wanted a safe haven. Somewhere he could be Fred Smoot.
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