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The first trade of the NFL offseason and it’s a blockbuster, but only for one of the teams involved. For the other, it's simply a busted block.

The Kansas City Chiefs are coming out aces after striking an agreement with the Washington Redskins to send quarterback Alex Smith to the nation’s capital. The Redskins will now do away with Kirk Cousins — a 29-year-old in his prime — for the 34-year-old Smith, while also coughing up a four-year extension that will reportedly pay him upwards of $94 million with $71 million in guarantees.

Bold strategy, Cotton.

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The Redskins gave up a third-round pick and budding star cornerback Kendall Fuller for the right to make such an egregious error in judgement. For the Dallas Cowboys, this is fantastic news. Although Cousins’ record against Dallas wasn’t great, it wasn’t completely his fault. The veteran torched the Cowboys on more than one occasion, losing only because his defense routinely failed to hold up their end of the bargain.

Sound familiar?

As for Smith, he’s 1-2 for his career against Dallas and with only six touchdowns to go along with two interceptions. He’s also broken the 250-yard passing mark only once, and even then it was only a 263-yard game. Even if the Redskins broke even at QB, being generous in that assumption, they took a huge loss defensively and gave up an early round draft pick to do it.

And with this huge mistake by the Redskins, the Cowboys immediately take a step forward in the NFC East — without lifting a finger yet, roster-wise.

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