5 steps to $50 million in salary cap space for the Redskins
If you had popped into the article you would have seen that the Deadskins ”roll into” the offseason with 48 million in cap space and can create an additional 40+ million with a handful of moves. In short, they have plenty of flexibility. The Stinks need a QB far more than they need cap space, that’s for sure.
The Prescott situation is really only an option if he is allowed to enter FA. I wouldn’t pay him a fortune AND give up draft picks. Plus, Jerry most likely wouldn’t trade him within the division.
Ultimately for me, if the Stinks, let’s say, added Prescott, brought back Scherff and Silverback, and drafted Young - that’s a franchise-defining, coherent first offseason if you’re Rivera. Perhaps it doesn’t scream “we’re gonna win the Super Bowl”, but it certainly would put this moribund franchise back on the map and immediately give them a chance to compete. As Mahomes pointed out after his SB win, the Smith years in KC paved the way for them. It’s much easier to reach the ultimate goal if you’ve got a winning culture already in place. The Deadskins have the complete opposite of that: decades and decades with zero sustained success.
I’m not even arguing that Prescott is possible, or even desirable. Internally Rivera and Co. should be turning over every leaf if they’re not sold on Haskins long-term prospects and I’d much prefer Dak over Smith, Rivers, Foles or Newton.
It’s quite frankly surprising that most Stinks fans aren’t pining for a QB as much as I am. The Crappy QB Carousel goes back even further than Snyder and is probably the biggest reason they’ve sucked so hard ... and for so long.