CLEVELAND, Ohio -- If Browns GM John Dorsey plans to bring his old friend Alex Smith to Cleveland, he'll have to do an amazing sales pitch beforehand.

During an interview Tuesday on The Dan Patrick Show from the Super Bowl in Minneapolis, the 14th-year pro didn't sound eager to try to turn around the Browns if they trade for him.

"I haven't even thought about that," Smith said with a laugh. "They've got nowhere to go but up. 1-31 over the last 2 years just sounds amazing."

Asked by Patrick if ideally he'd like to go to a contender, he admitted he would.

"You would love to go a place that, if that's the case, if you're going somewhere, yeah, you want to go somewhere you have a chance to have success,'' he said. "I feel that (way). Wouldn't you?''

To which Patrick quipped, "I don't know, look what I'm surrounded by. I basically went to the Cleveland Browns of radio shows."

Of course, Smith -- who has a year left on his Chiefs deal at $17 million including bonuses -- wouldn't have control over where he gets traded, which he doesn't love.

"I wish I knew (where I'll be),'' he said. "Listen, I've got a year under contract there in Kansas City. I wish I was in control of this thing. I wish I was the one that got to be able to do this. That's just not the reality.''

And if he were in control?

"You're not going to like this answer at all,'' he said. "I love where I'm at right now. I feel like we underachieved. I felt like offensively last year we did some awesome things. But who knows? I've been playing long enough, I've been through this before, the trade deal, so I'm not naive to it. This is a crazy business. A lot of crazy stuff can happen, so we'll see.''

NFL Network reported earlier this month that the Chiefs would be open to trading Smith, who took them to the playoffs four times over the past five years, and finished first in the NFL with a 104.7 rating this season thanks in large part to 26 touchdowns and five interceptions.

He could be expendable because the Chiefs traded up to draft Patrick Mahomes at No. 10 last year, and they might be ready to turn the team over to him. In his lone start this season, he completed 22 of 35 attempts for 284 yards, with no TDs and one interception.

"I wish I knew. I wish I was in control." @Chiefs QB Alex Smith on where he'll be playing next year. pic.twitter.com/PUwe1FIlxt — Dan Patrick Show (@dpshow) January 30, 2018

The Cleveland trade speculation on Smith is natural because Dorsey traded for him when he first became GM of the Chiefs in 2013, and the former No. 1 overall pick in 2005 rewarded him with three playoff appearances in their four years together.

What's more coach Hue Jackson has made it clear the Browns will bring in a veteran quarterback who will likely start games for them until their rookie -- probably the No. 1 pick -- is ready.

"You need to have a quarterback that knows how to win in the National Football League, but circumstances sometimes dictate otherwise,'' Jackson said at the Senior Bowl last week. "You just don't know how things will unfold, but if we had the best of all of the worlds, we would want a guy in there who has won in the National Football League and knows what that looks like and what that position has to play like to have that."

While they might not want to make a huge long-term commitment to a Kirk Cousins, they could essentially rent Smith for a year at $17 million and then he's set to be a free agent after this season. They could also trade for him and try to sign him to a long-term deal.

But first, they'll have to sell him on the notion that there's nowhere to go but up, and that they'll surround him with what he needs to be successful.

Meanwhile, Smith wasn't the only veteran quarterback at the Super Bowl Tuesday talking about going somewhere where he can win.

Redskins' QB Kirk Cousins, who's set to become a free agent after this season, told Pro Football Talk Live's Mike Florio that winning is his No. 1 priority.

"Is money a part of it? Sure. Is it the only thing? No," Cousins said. "It's about winning, and that's what I want more than anything. So I'm going to be willing to make sacrifices or do what has to be done to make sure I'm in the best possible position to win, and that's what the focus is going to be."

Cousins, who can be franchised by the Redskins a third straight year, echoed those same sentiments on the Jim Rome show.

"Ultimately this decision going forward is about winning games,'' he said. "I've had an opportunity to earn a good living playing football, so I want to go win. That can be Washington. It really can. (Winning is) what I'll be remembered for. That's what's going to matter.''

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