[ChiefsCountry]

Originally Posted by gblowfish

3. The elephant in the room is the starting QB. We talk about it until we all want to puke, but it’s a painful truth. This team’s culture is one that cannot or will not draft and develop an legitimate, elite, team leading, dangerous skilled starting QB. Nobody fears Alex Smith. Alex is not the worst QB in the league. He’s somewhere in bottom middle. But the results with a guy like that at the helm is predictable. Look who’s left in the cage match: Three sure first ballot HOF QB’s and possibly this year’s NFL MVP (Ryan in Atlanta). Who got bounced? Osweasle, a rookie in Dallas, and Alex. It’s especially frustrating with Alex, because he’s being paid like other elite NFL QBs. He just doesn’t measure up in crunch time. Somebody else on the CP brought this up but it’s worth repeating. You can go back all the way to Mackovic getting KC to the playoffs in 1986 against the Jets, and look at the QB match ups for KC vs. the Opponent. Guess what? Arguably every single time, we lost to a much better QB. Here’s the list:

1986: Pat Ryan> Kenney/Sackledge
1990: Marino> DeBerg
1991: Jim Kelley> DeBerg/Vlasic
1992: Humphries> Krieg
1993: Kelly> Montana
1994: Marino> Montana
1995: Harbaugh> Bono
1997: Elway> Grbac
2003: Manning> Green
2006: Manning> Green
2010: Flacco> Casshole
2013: Luck> Smith
2015: Brady> Smith
2016: Rapistburger>Smith

Over the past 14 years, every AFC Super Bowl team has been led by either Brady, Manning, Rapistburger or Flacco, all better QBs than Smith. And there’s many better AFC QBs on the way up who will only improve including Mariotta, Luck and (most scary) Carr. Until Clark figures this out, what you saw this year is going to be as good as this business model will produce. They may have even over-produced this year.

Great minds think a like George. Here is what I posted last night.
http://www.chiefsplanet.com/BB/showp...5&postcount=28