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Originally Posted by scho63
Our receivers SUCK at getting separation and in the last 10 games, Alex Smith has made a lot of great throws only to have another dropped pass cost us.
Up until last night, he has been pretty good at not taking stupid sacks.
Throwing to covered receivers? He has spent time going through his progressions nicely and I don't want to see 3-4 INT's each game like Cassel!
Our O line has been piss poor in run and pass blocking. Charles has worked for every damn yard he has gotten.
I'm not sure how you can make Alex Smith the scapegoat because he is not.  |
I'm not making him out to be a scapegoat. Like I said, there are games where managing games is not enough.
His receivers aren't great at getting separation. But as Peter King showed, he is missing wide open reads to hit his checkdown and he does it regularly. Defenses stack the box to stop the run because they don't think Smith will throw downfield. And whereas elite QBs are throwing back shoulder throws and threading passes into tight spaces, Smith pretty regularly throws to a wide open man and way too often gets the ball to the right man a few seconds too late.
He is a big reason why we are 9-1. He's also a big reason why we may not be legit contenders unless he changes. He's proven he can take what he's given. There are games where he has to do more than that, and yesterday was one of them. I don't want our team to continually rely on our defense to make game-changing plays in the final seconds of a game.