The case against keeping Preston Smith in 2021

Photo by Dylan Buell/Getty ImagesDuring his media availability yesterday, Green Bay Packers general manager Brian Gutekunst mentioned that the team was interested in keeping Preston Smith around. Whether this is actually true or not is unknown, but it certainly threw Packers Twitter into quite the tizzy. After starting out as largely a mocking exercise, by the end of the night I found many defending the idea of retaining Smith, which I found quite perplexing.

Twelve hours earlier it was widely accepted that cutting Smith was not only inevitable, but also correct. Do we really believe that an NFL team wouldn’t do something inadvisable when they have provided us with so much data to the…