{"id":572122,"date":"2018-01-31T17:46:27","date_gmt":"2018-01-31T22:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=572122"},"modified":"2026-07-25T20:53:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T00:53:23","slug":"alex-smith-trade-brings-plenty-of-risk-for-redskins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=572122","title":{"rendered":"Alex Smith trade brings plenty of risk for Redskins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ANALYSIS\/OPINION:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Washington Redskins are trying to have it both ways when they traded Tuesday for quarterback Alex Smith: Acquiring a perceived franchise quarterback, while also having enough salary cap room to build up a competitive roster elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>The logic is sound, but there&#8217;s plenty of risk involved.<\/p>\n<p>Washington once &#8230;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2018\/jan\/31\/alex-smith-trade-brings-plenty-risk-redskins\/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2018\/jan\/31\/alex-smith-trade-brings-plenty-risk-redskins\/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Alex Smith trade brings plenty of risk for Redskins\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Washington Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANALYSIS\/OPINION: The Washington Redskins are trying to have it both ways when they traded Tuesday for quarterback Alex Smith: Acquiring a perceived franchise quarterback, while also&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-572122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-stories","category-redskins","wpcat-79-id","wpcat-87-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=572122"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1906883,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572122\/revisions\/1906883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=572122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=572122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=572122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}