Did Alex Smith change your mind.
 

I like many others wasnt ecstatic about the acquisition.
I didnt hate it as some on this board and understood it may have been the best available and we got him.
A season later and Im happy to have him as QB but still want to go after that drafter franchise QB in every single draft somehow someway.

I dont dread going into next season with him like I did the last few season with Piolis golden boy.

Did he change your mind on him?

Smith improved with the offense throughout the season and saved his best performance for when it counted. He did it without the best offensive weapon on our team as well.

I didn't need my mind changed in the first place but anyone right now saying this guy can't get it done doesn't know their ass from their elbow.

My mind didnt really need changing, but I sure didnt foresee 378 with 4 touchdown and O picks.

Thats a Brady, Brees, Manning, Rodgers line.

I had my doubts early in the season. But considering he has had multiple OCs and it was his first year here I hope its a sign of things to come. It did get better it seemed as the season went on.

My mind didn't need to be changed. I knew the kid was good. I sure thought Bowe and the defense would be great... so I was painfully wrong about that.

I do hope lots of negative opinions of him have changed.

Just remember.. no one is calling him elite or beyond reproach. He's just a good QB that will do his part in winning games, but you have to assist him with decent receivers, blocking, and a defense that can force a few punts per half.

His play yes. Time will tell if he turns into AFFLAC Smith(knock #2).

Exactly this.

I have caught hell for supporting him all season.

I didn't foresee the defensive collapse.

This was like watching the 1995 and 2003 seasons in one season with each taking a half f it.

he's been solid. and in the playoffs he is now 9 td's 0 int's

he plays big in big games. they need to keep him around

Bowe did what Bowe does. Make great plays and miss the easy ones with the game on the line. Bowe isn't clutch enough to carry us. (Well formally us, I've been a lifelong Saints fan for about 24 hours now)

Never in a million years would I have thought this defense could choke away a lead like that... STILL trying to wrap my head around it.

What was the stat OTWP posted somewhere, Indy had a .9% chance of winning once we went up 28?

Un.believable.

Alex was garbage the first half of the season.

Whether or not that was HIS fault for playing Scared, or Reids fault for putting him on a leash, I do not know.

What I do know is that the last couple of months he has been playing well enough compete in the playoffs and he has earned my respect before I blindly gave it to him.
Next year will be a better eye test fore he will be playing tougher competition.

So far so good for Alex Smith.

My hatred is for Bob Sutton.

I've spent equal time apologizing for and criticizing Alex Smith.

I'm still there. My apologist view is that Smith played exceptional football at a big moment, and did everything a reasonable QB could have and should have done to win the game. My critical view is, I still want to see him do this consistently against a defense that's better than Indy's.

Kind of. Despite being what I always thought he was. Conservative, team guy, leader, winner, he has now become a play maker.

I thought the first half of the season, that he just was what he was. He has now become a franchise qb.

No, I started to believe mid-season when he started to sling it.


I can see this offense become like New Orleans eventually.

The same Indy defense that crippled Russell Wilson, Peyton Manning, Colin Kaepernick.

And Crippled him the first time around in Arrowhead. Alex Shredded them without Charles early. They adjusted, the Chiefs offense didn't.

On the road no less.

I'm starting to believe but early in the year, when we couldn't score more than 20, left me questioning his consistency. He certainly earned the right to improve on that consistency. That being said I'm all for drafting a young gunslinger and sticking him under AS wing.

Alex was the least of our problems this year. I believe he's good enough to win a SB. In the first half, most of our offensive problems were OL and WR related, plus no TE.

Yesterday, was mostly defense. We have problems there too clearly.

Last night you saw, that when our WR's caught the ball and got separation, Alex Smith is more than capable of looking great.

Yes.

When we first got him, I thought his upside was a more mobile and intelligent Matt Cassel. Battered fan syndrome, I guess.

As the season progressed, I though, Okay, maybe we've got a top half of the league QB. He is really intelligent, somewhat tough to bring down, and seems to always put the ball in the safe zone for the receiver to make a play yet not get intercepted.

Last night was a revelation. I came around full circle. He shook the game manager label, and played ****ing balls out. He chucked it, he took risks, he ran for firsts when he should have and made awesome throws on 3rd downs.

I think, if we are able to replicate the things that he did into next season and beyond, we will really be a SB contender.

I am comfortable crossing THE major need off of our checklist, at least for the next 3-5 years, based on the growth and talent I witnessed this season and last night.

The next major objective for this offense is to get playmakers; and I am confident that Andy knows what those look like and understands the importance of having.

The other reason I'm confident is that John Dorsey knows what good receivers look like and can identify them in the rough. Guys like Randall Cobb, Jordy Nelson, James Jones, Greg Jennings (a while back), so on and so forth... Dorsey WILL find us these guys.

Here's hoping it comes sooner, rather than later!

Yes. I never like the acquisition and always said Alex Smith may not lose you games but he won't win you many. I think that belief is now in question.

He is better than Cassel, and we should just be happy with making the playoffs and "playing good football!" /cp

Absolutely. I was pissed when they traded for him, I was unimpressed the first half of the year, I started coming around the second half of the year, and now I absolutely love him.

He is definitely good enough to win in the postseason. We should extend him draft mid/late round QBs in the meantime

Once I got over being pissed because weren't gonna draft a QB with the 1st overall pick I approached Alex Smith with an open mind. He won me over!

Yeah I'm not as bitter as I was....that DEEP ball to Avery yesterday was beautiful! For sure GIF worthy. He showed that he does have the ability to get the ball down field if given the opportunity.

In a perfect world, we would give him an extension through 2017 with options and groom Bray as he served as our backup.

I never doubted him because I saw what he did in the playoffs vs. the Saints. I love the kid. Lock him up.

Rep.

Early in the year, he was new in KC with new coaches/new offense and was getting used to the little bit of talent we had on O. I thought it was pretty clear that he would continue to improve throughout the season.

I like Smith before the season but I like him much better now. Smith wasn't the reason the Chiefs didn't advance...he's a great QB who has been clearly improving each year pver the last few years. He can be a SuperBowl winning QB

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This might of been his best play all game.

My opinion of him has changed. I was not a fan of the trade or what we gave up for him. As the first half of the season played out it looked that way. After the bye week though he turned it on. He was brilliant yesterday I just hope this can be the norm for him and not a rare game.

My mind didn't need changing. For the first time in years I wasn't worried about our QB play.

Wait until he gets more weapons.
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Lovely gifs... we were whippin that ass sooo good :(

Group hug everyone!

Always have been always will be an Alex Smith fan.

The longer he works with Reid the better he'll get in this system.

I only wish we would have given this years first rather than the two 2nds

Oh....and he was for sure the best option available last season. This includes Geno...

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I think we saw in the second half of the season that he has picked up Reid's system. With the OL gaining experience and meshing, I expect to see it productive next year, especially if we add another wideout.

Smith is a good enough QB to win. He is not a transcendent QB, but until someone presents us the opportunity to get a Manning or Luck or Rodgers or Brady, you go with him, and you keep looking at the draft to find guys and see if you can eventually find one of those guys. But right now we need to fix the damn D. Something we've been saying for the better part of 13 years now...

I think we could win in the playoffs with Smith, there most likely won't be a better option than him. He played amazing the first half yesterday and yes he ****ed up the 2nd down at the end with that intentional grounding, he ****ed up big time there. But if our defense ever can play to their potential vs good opponents we could be a power house. But we are the Chiefs, we are cursed or something and will most likely never witness a playoff win in our lives. The best thing we could hope for is what happened yesterday, almost winning in the playoffs. That's what being a Chiefs fan is about.

Each of those games are different, they are played differently.
Alex didn't cripple Indy in KC with Charles, you think the OC had anything to do with this as did the OC in the other games, same with the DC's ?

As for my expectations of Alex Smith ? Still the same, I wasn't totally against him to start with knowing we would have to upgrade a lot. DV brought in Trent, year 1 was bad and everybody wanted to can Trent ( err Trint ) .

You have to give the QB, offense and OC time to grow in year # 1 of any regime. To expect anything significant is well wishing and doesn't happen often. AS and the OC, the offense grew and jelled together nicely in year # 1. Do we need more around AS to make his a SB winning QB ? Absolutely!

I would not give him an extension now, we need that money to upgrade now. We can extent him next year when we have solidified a few other positions.

Yes, I was impressed. I don't know if he'll be given the plays and/or the freedom to repeat yesterday's performance on a regular basis.

Yes and No.

When the trade was announced I was sure of two things. One, we where getting career failure, Alex Smith, and that Smith was not the answer to our long term QB situation in any way. I thought the last 2 seasons where a Fluke based on Harbaugh and the domination of the 49ers o line/D. I think he proved me wrong there. He is not that terrible guy, he is the cautious, deliberate, gamer, that we have seen this year.

I still think he has not proven that he is a long term solution, a franchise guy for this team. I would still prefer to have him play out his contract next year before we re-sign him.

You mean taking the sack and losing the yardage is better than the intentional grounding in some substantial way?

Exactly. The intentional grounding penalty basically just awards a defense the sack they were going to record anyway.

I think he changed my mind as far as his ceiling. Ive always been impressed with the way he elevates his play in big games, but this was another step. He has now shown that he can compete with some of the better qbs in the league. We just need to give him a few more weapons and improve the defense.

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He was fantastic for one half of football and then fell flat when we needed him most in the second half. The defense had a colossal collapse but Smith and the offense did as well. I thought that trade stuck us in QB purgatory for the foreseeable future….after yesterday I am assured I was correct

6 of our 7 offensive drives were 3 minutes or less in the second half. Basically the defense was Alex Smith little brother who was getting punched in the nose repeatedly and he had no idea how to make the nosebleed stop.

Didn't we get a loss of down as well?
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When you needed him most huh?

How about without Avery, without Charles, and then without Knile.

Oh, and lets not admit how much better the COLTS defense played in the second half.

Its the same as a sack.

Essentially.

He didn't change my mind about drafting and developing a first round quarterback.

Alex has performed every game. Cp has more idiots and morons than a reerun ward

With the sack, the Chiefs would have been faced with a 3rd and roughly 17.

With the intentional grounding they faced a 3rd and 17.

No, Alex Smith does not keep you in QB purgatory unless you think the only sure way to get a QB is in the first round, but that's been proven lately not to be the case.

4 out of the 8 QBs still playing were drafted outside of the first round.

You also don't need a franchise QB to win a SB.

The only thing I can say about throwing the ball away is that at least it's not a fumble or he risk fumble while going down. So intentional grounding is at least good for something.

Average Indy scoring drive was 2 minutes and 32 seconds. How ****ing ridiculous is that?

Man I bet he wishes he threw it away to his left. I do too.

They scored 45 points while only having the ball for 22 minutes.

Think TOP might be a tad overrated?

Dude's had like 8 or 9 offensive coordinators in the same amount of years. Imagine actually being able to expand the same playbook with the same guy. Could make HUGE improvements!

Maybe he actually is a perfect fit for Andy Reid's offense?

Man, if only Jamal wasn't hurt.....
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It's a start, but nope same opinion

I think Alex Smith is a great QB, he played out of his mind yesterday. He was scrambling and making things happen. The sack strip that he took was Fasanos fault, he stepped out of Mathis' way and gave him a free lane to Alex.

He needs a top tier receiver and a better tight end (not sure why the beard wasn't playing yesterday). If he had a couple more weapons he would put up big numbers.

If Alex Smith can do this with a marginally talented offense (without its best player most of the game), it is encouraging to think what he'll do after an offseason where the Chiefs hopefully upgrade the WR/TE position on offense.

They didn't score points because TOP is overrated. It wasn't because we didn't rotate players. They scored points because our scheme was terrible in the second half. So no, I don't think TOP is overrated. I think hurry-up is overrated. There is still a lot to be said for a QB who is remarkably efficient on offense.

The only thing the Colts' 35 second half points proves is how remarkably terrible our defense was.

At least you're consistently stupid.

He absolutely gained my full trust and confidence moving forward. He played a great game. When you score 44 points, you absolutely should win in the playoffs every damned time.

That throw to Avery was perfect. He balled yesterday. Unfortunately because of the defense, I bawled.

I am so glad to be going into an off season not wanting the first thing on my wish list being a ****ing quarterback. Thank You Clark, Dorsey, and Reid.

I thought Smith was awesome, but you know the devil's advocates out there are still going to put the loss on his shoulders.

The Chiefs likely win if he doesn't cough up the football on the sack which led to a TD drive for the Colts.

The Chiefs likely win if he hits Cyrus Gray running wide open down the sideline for an easy TD.

The Chiefs still have a good chance to take the lead if he doesn't lose his composure and draw an intentional grounding penalty while knocking on the door of FG position.



Instead of focusing on the team aspect, and holding that horrific _efense accountable for giving up 35 points in one half of football, they will simply say that Alex Smith didn't do what was needed to win the game.

He coughed up the football, missed a wide open TD pass, and then drew a penalty that made getting FG position nearly impossible.


If the Chiefs get Alex Smith some legitimate receiving weapons, the sky is the limit for this guy. 387 yards and four TDs with this laughing stock receiving corps we fielded, and without the threat of Jamaal Charles was amazing.

QB was not the reason we lost the game, which is what everyone opposed to Alex Smith was just sure was going to be the reason we lost if we did lose. Its always one or the other. Elite play on one side of the ball and absolute ****ing dumpster fire on the other. Had even a middle of the pack defense taken the field we win that game by 3 scores.

I would still rather wait and see, but I'll be ok if they extend him. He's a solid QB that can win if you give him the tools.

QB's left in the playoffs -

Rivers - 1st round

Kapernick - 2nd round

Brees - 2nd round

Manning - 1st round

Brady - 6th round

Luck - 1st round

Newton - 1st round

Wilson - 3rd round

You flat out DO NOT need to draft someone in the first round anymore to have a shot.

And with that said, Smith was the #1 overall. So shut the **** up, dumbshits. I mean really. The guy carried the god damn team in the playoff game and some of you are still talking about how he didn't make a play here or there. I swear to Christ I wish you bitches would get ****ing komodo dragon AIDS.

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At first I believed like many that it was a bad trade for 2 second round picks. The playoff game changed my mind on that.

I remember him putting his body on the line multiple times trying to pick up yardage and first downs. Every other QB since Trent and Montana would have either checked it down to a really bad HB option behind the line of scrimmage or gone into a fetal position. What was semi scary about it was any other Chiefs player that got a little hit and fell on what in the hell that surface was, was getting concussions and having to leave the game.

He had 3 bad decisions but those should not have been even brought up if the Defense could have done 1 or 2 stops.

Sign him to a cap friendly deal and flush some of the turds on defense down the toilet so other better players can be brought in. Also let Sutton go coach some other team. Hell let him go be the head coach at Penn State. He obviously likes to see rape happen.

i love alex and you should too.

You wouldn't say those things if it was your asshole farting cum bubbles.

We really missed Jamal in the 2nd half.

And Avery.

And Flowers.

And even Mr. Fumbles...

I've been in the Alex Smith camp since day 1. Have defended him against most of you Forrest Gumps on this thread. I'm not the least bit surprised he stepped up. KC CAN win BIG with him no question. Not sure about Sutton though...