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Originally Posted by chiefzilla1501
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.
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A) That wasn't Peter King, it was just his website. Please don't mistake actual analysis for anyting King has ever written.
B) Yes, a couple of those plays he posted were pretty bad. 2 of the 4 were also extremely defensible and/or flat out intelligent decisions.
Smith cut it loose a fair amount yesterday - 12 passes over 20 yards in fact. You saw what we got for our efforts. Drops and passes batted away easily because DBs can close on these WRs so easily that anything downfield is in trouble.
Throwing downfield with these weapons is looking like a worse idea by the day. When he does it, they invariably **** it up.