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Originally Posted by BigCatDaddy
Why do you keep ignoring Carson Palmer?
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Palmer would have been okay.
There was the shoulder issue/injury that's been an asterisk with him and Smith looked like he had a bit more upside from a standpoint of longevity/age and the system. (Definitely more mobile than Palmer.)
After the 2013 season, his last with the Raiders, he basically looked done. (Though that's probably a side effect of just being on the Raiders.)
He's having a pretty good year so far, but even in his last two years with the Bengals in 2009 and 2010 he looked toast and that's a hard call to make in terms of signing up a 33 year old pocket statue with a bad wing heading down what looked to be a rapidly declining path.
Smith was coming off a season in 2011 where he was leading the NFL in several statistical categories and the 49ers were surging. His benching was a weird call by Harbaugh all things considered at that point and one would have thought that a change of scenery and in an offense like Reid's that was basically tailored to the skills of Smith seemed to be a very nice fit.
2013 and 2014 saw back to back winning seasons for the first time in nearly 15 years and the 2015 season began promising as the Chiefs went 4-0 in the preseason against some pretty good defensive teams. They looked like they were going to make a serious push in the AFC.
However, after a good win in week one against a pretty solid Texans defense and an inspired performance by JJ Watt, it seems that the week two Denver loss has completely blown up the psyche of Smith, Sutton and Reid.
This team and those guys have gone to complete shit. Just a complete ****ing meltdown. Smith is making some really bad throws, making bad decisions in the pocket, holding onto the ball too long and the coaching staff is basically mirroring him in terms of some really questionable game time calls.
Smith, like an ace pitcher who is just getting shelled that one bad game, needs to take a seat on the bench and get his head together. Maybe that would also give Reid the impetus to readjust his thought process on the whole deal.