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Originally Posted by TigerUppercut
That's what I was saying, it's likely he will be the starter in 2018 given our situation personnel and money wise. We would have to draft the next Wilson/Prescott this year to consider giving him the boot any earlier
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No, we could draft the next Wilson/Prescott
next year and still give him the boot in '18.
You don't restructure a guy unless you intend to keep him for at least 2 more years and by doing so, you've effectively taken the ability to get rid of him after 1 off the table.
It would be asinine to do so. Whether or not he's 'likely' to be the starter in 2018 is a matter of conjecture but if you restructure him, he's 'definitely' the starter in 2018 and that's not a decision I'd be willing to make and I'm betting that Reid and Dorsey are in the same boat.
They're not going to restructure Alex Smith unless it's so team friendly that the cap rollover it would create would effectively pay off the dead money they'd increase the following year. That seems extremely unlikely. They're not going to do anything to diminish their ability to walk away from Smith in '18. They're not as myopic as you are.