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Originally Posted by RealSNR
It would be fascinating to put Alex on a TRULY awful team as an experiment. The 2-14 Chiefs don't count, given our 7000 Pro Bowlers we had that year.
I'm talking a zero, nothing, nadda team. Like, I think Cleveland might be too good for Alex. I'm thinking a team like San Francisco that TRULY has nothing for him.
Put him on that team. Test the theory about Alex Smith really making your defense better because ball control is his #1 goal. Check out his stat line when he has no decent ballcarriers and no targets outside of maybe a decent TE and a wiley vet WR. See if he still keeps his INTs in the single digits and his TDs in the 18-22 range. See how many wins he can rack up playing that way.
You'll have to accommodate him with a head coach that isn't a TOTAL unknown or a bag of shit, I guess. But how many retreads are available every year? That shouldn't be too hard.
Most of all, put him on that team so he'll get the **** off of mine.
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He will throw for 3,200 yards with 18 TDs and 8 interceptions while going 6-10. The league will sing his praises for how well he dealt with a weak supporting cast and heavy adversity and if he's a free agent he'll end up signing a contract with the Texans. People will insist that with Hopkins, Miller and Fuller and a steady OL, this is the year he'll take a big step forward and finally shed the 'game manager' label.
Then he'll go to Houston and throw for 3,400 yard with 17 TDs and 6 interceptions while going 10-6 before losing to the first halfway decent quarterback he faces in the postseason. The league will damn him for proving once and for all that he's a product of the teams around him (while failing to notice that the team around him doesn't matter and he's the same guy regardless of the surrounding talent).
100 years later we will unearth Alien tablets talking about their Alex Smith trollbot and how they just laughed and laughed and laughed because fans never realized that Alex Smith was an elaborate hoax perpetrated on a select few football fans to punish them for thinking offensive lines win championships.
****ing aliens got us again...