Jesus you are full of excuses.

In the end I think it's hard to argue that there's not a symbiotic relationship between a RB and a QB.

I think Smith actually does make Charles a little better, if for no other reason than he keeps the offense reasonably productive, keeps it on the field and allows Charles to do his thing. I think Charles makes Smith significantly better for reasons that appear quite obvious to me.

I mean sure, if we're setting scales, they tip in favor of Charles' contributions to Smith's success. But to say that Smith doesn't play some role in Charles success isn't being terribly fair.

The roles feed off each other and if we had Cassel/Quinn out there throwing ints and fumbling away snaps, Charles would have been nowhere near as impactful this season.

Just as I think of you... maybe we are both right. I'm okay with that. :D

so... blocking OL have nothing to do with a RB's success? That's just an excuse?

a RB hitting the right hole? deciding between patience and haste... just an excuse?

there can be no other variables for a RB's success other than the QB?

Everybody around here seems to be fairly content with what he is doing now. I didn't mean hatred toward Alex. He stirs up hatred between posters. They take it personally for some reason.

The disgust comes from a certain number of posters who came over here after the trade and basically stated that anything but devout love for Alex is hatred for him. It's akin to the Pats fans who came over here in 2009 and railed on everyone for not loving Cassel.

So I put those three teams up there for a reason:
- I totally agree with you that Rivers is excellent, particularly this year and his contract is reasonable value for a top 10 QB. But how many pieces away are they from beating a team like Seattle? I think if they add a star player or two on their D, they have an outside outside chance within the next three years.
- The Cowboys are the quintessential team with the overpaid QB. They will never sniff the superbowl. HArd time just making the playoffs
- Then there's us. We've a complete defense. On offense, if the O-line continues to improve, we are a TE and a tier 1 receiver away. If we luck out on a late 1st round QB, all the better. I could see us matching Seattle within the next 3 years.

Well, duh.

Those that didn't like Alex are in a no-lose situation.

If we're right - we're right.

If we're wrong we watch a QB win us playoff games and take us to a super bowl and say "wooo boy was I wrong about that guy!"

I don't think the Cowboys are ****ed because of Romo's contract. It has to do with Jones having his hands in everything, a HC who has no clue what he's doing, a bunch of other shitty contracts and the fact that they negated their best passrusher by changing defenses.

Man love. Pretty obvious.

And one more thing. You're totally right about the few stupid contracts. The market for QB's in FA is totally overvalued. Which brings up another point about Rivers. SD drafted him. For us to get a guy like that from the outside, I dont think we could get the same kind of deal they're getting.

Generally, defense is the best bang-for-buck right now in terms of FA. The WR free agency market is pretty screwed up too.

This x1000.

The irony is they hate the starting QB for their team more than we hate Alex Smith. Double faced douchebags is what they are.

It's bizarre. There are actually some posters who call themselves Niners fans over there saying they want to see KC defeat the Niners in the Superbowl.

It's almost like Alex is their little brother or something.

yep... they sure covered their ass just fine on this. ;)