What happens with Kyle Smith?

[SFREDSKIN]

Originally Posted by Warthog

I really hope Rivera promotes Kyle Smith to GM, because if he doesn’t, Smith will get offers on other teams.

Kyle has helped turn this team around. In fact, if Dan Snyder hadn’t drafted Haskins at QB two years ago, maybe we’d have a QB heir apparent, instead of trading Haskins for a ham sandwich this offseason.

Despite our franchises awful record, we have produced some of the best talent at the lower levels of the coaching / GM organization - like McVay and Shannihan.

Don’t let Kyle Smith go!!! He has had the ability to get good, starting players in the trash level of the draft ( fifth round and below) and also in the Undrafted Free Agent (UFA). He is the legitimate talent scout we’ve been praying for on this team for decades - INSTEAD of Dan Snyder and his lackey “GM”.

Want to know why we are finally winning? Because of some of the draft picks Kyle has made in the last two years! We have two players that are carrying this offense, who Smith picked up in the THIRD ROUND!!!


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Correction: last 3 years

[Warthog]

Originally Posted by SFREDSKIN

Correction: last 3 years

I understand that Kyle has had an impact in the last three years but I just wonder how much they listened to him in the upper round drafting of ‘17 and ‘18. Dan Snyder and Bruce Allen were making the personnel decisions in those two years. That’s why we took Haskins over the coaches and scout advice two years ago.

I suspect that that Dan and Bruce listened to Kyle Smith in the lower rounds, and his success there meant that every year he has had more say in the draft, UFA and FA. I just hope Rivera gives him the GM job this offseason, because otherwise he will go to another team for more money and a GM office, where he will build a winner.


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[SFREDSKIN]

Originally Posted by Warthog

I understand that Kyle has had an impact in the last three years but I just wonder how much they listened to him in the upper round drafting of ‘17 and ‘18. Dan Snyder and Bruce Allen were making the personnel decisions in those two years. That’s why we took Haskins over the coaches and scout advice two years ago.

I suspect that that Dan and Bruce listened to Kyle Smith in the lower rounds, and his success there meant that every year he has had more say in the draft, UFA and FA. I just hope Rivera gives him the GM job this offseason, because otherwise he will go to another team for more money and a GM office, where he will build a winner.


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According to Keim he has been the architect and has had the trust of others. More than half the team are his picks, he might be as good of better than Beathard. Can’t lose him.

[Warthog]

Originally Posted by SFREDSKIN

According to Keim he has been the architect and has had the trust of others. More than half the team are his picks, he might be as good of better than Beathard. Can’t lose him.

Agreed. Kyle Smith has personally taken a very mediocre drafting program for the WFT and made it very good. Up until 2018, Snyder, using his mouth pieces Allen and Cerrato to have a very strong influence on all personnel decisions. It has taken 20 years of many, many bad personnel decisions (because of Snyder) , to bring in an NFL savvy talent evaluator like Smith.

In the beginning of his tenure as the owner, Snyder tried to use FA to build the team. Contrary to the rest of the NFL, the Redskins traded away draft picks like they were candy, mostly in exchange for old, past-their-prime players, who were looking for one last BIG payday. The “FA first” strategy was a massive failure. It has only been in the last 5 years that the team brought in a real GM, like McCloughan. Then he was ousted by Bruce Allen once Scot started to be successful.

Until Rivera came here, Snyder always could inject his opinion through his “yes man” GM (Allen and Cerrato). Snyder’s last override of Head Coaches opinion came with the Haskins draft pick. That’s why no head coach could win here over two decades - even when Gibbs and Shanahan came to Washington. That’s why Rivera wouldn’t even talk to Snyder about the HC job until he had TOTAL CONTROL on personnel decisions and also getting rid of Bruce Allen.

I think Rivera wanted to see how Kyle Smith did this year as a potential GM AND ALSO to make sure that Smith wasn’t the latest version of the Dan Snyder lackey that he’s had before.

BL - Kyle Smith needs to be awArded the GM position at the end of this season. He’s earned it, the team is getting better because of his picks and otherwise, he will go to another team where he can be the GM!!


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[SFREDSKIN]

Good article. Danny get off your ass and make him a GM now!!

https://www.nbcsports.com/washington...body-else-does

[Chico23231]

Originally Posted by SFREDSKIN

Good article. Danny get off your ass and make him a GM now!!

https://www.nbcsports.com/washington...body-else-does

Really great job by jp...I think the most underrated part of team building is those draft picks 4-7 rounds, that’s where you really build the team recognizing quality players who provide good depth, contribute in packages, and who are coachable sponges who potentially can blossom into major contributors

Kyle needs to stay, i rather have him GM titled if that keeps him. I’m sold