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However, Craig Hoffman says it's hard to imagine Washington doing better than it has under the "incompetent management" of Dan Snyder and Bruce Allen.
"When you have incompetent management at the top, there's a definitive ceiling, because you can't hire people that are as good," Hoffman told The Sports Junkies Wednesday. "You're never gonna get the elite guy, because they're not gonna want to come here."
"The last four years, where you've gone about .500, is really as good as you're gonna get. Because eventually, incompetence is going to make bad decisions."
"I don't think Alex is bad, but they had to overpay for him, and even if he's not hurt, they're locked in to whatever Alex Smith can provide them over the next four years," Hoffman explained. "A different organization doesn't make that move and sign him to a four-year extension."
"But because they're the Redskins, they have to pay up, and getting elite players is gonna cost more. He's gonna have to take more risks, and the chances are it's probably not gonna pay off the reward, which means your ceiling comes down as a football team. And the 'But win, though' doesn't really work, because you're not gonna win very much."
"We thought they finally admitted they weren't (stuck in the glory days of 1980s and 90s) by hiring those guys, and then (Lafemina's team) told them, 'No, we're not the Redskins of 1994,' and they fired them for it," Hoffman said.
"Brian and Steve (Ziff) and Todd (Kline) and Jake (Bye) are smart people who did things right and had a good view of reality, and those are fireable offenses with the current Redskins ownership."