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Originally Posted by Sandy Cheeks
I sure do.... but be careful what you wish for.
As has happened on multiple SF forums.. after Smith left, forums really lost their burst. The activity and "combative fun" diminished. So much so, that even years after, SF fans... the haters and lovers.. still obsess over him.
So my prediction is.. after Smith leaves, this place will still be talking about him for years. It's a sickness that festers.. for the people against him and the defenders in response of them...can not rid themselves of this sickness.
I hope to be wrong. Smith will be gone in 2018, and I would love to be wrong about this. Greatly doubt it, though. People are ultimately too predictable and disappointing.
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We'll still talk about Alex. We'll talk about him like we talk about Marty. Or Vermeil. Or any other Chiefs teams that were pretty good yet glaringly flawed. Like it or not, Alex is a part of Chiefs history, and part of being a fan is knowing and discussing teams of the past, knowing how the team has changed over the years, and what brought you to where you are today.
But obsessing over him? Nuh-uh. One thing still separating you from being a Chiefs fan is you don't seem to understand the mentality of us Chiefs fans. The spoiled and entitled reeruns and assholes in 49er land who have never experienced team purgatory look at it and go, "We're losing? Let's argue about trading Alex away!" Chiefs fans have already experienced Alex through Marty, and in some ways, in Vermeil as well. Pretty good teams held back by significant and glaring flaws that just could not and would not ever be changed.
Even if Mahomes is a failure, we have the benefit of getting Alex at the end of his career. A change had to be made at SOME point, because Alex wasn't going to be around much longer. You don't see Philly fans bemoaning or questioning the possibility that Andy Reid moved on from Donovan McNabb too early. Did he? Possibly. But whether the reset button has to be hit now or 1-2 years down the road, does it really matter? It has to happen eventually any way. At some point the button HAS to be pushed, and I'm just grateful we finally have a regime in place that gets to decide when that button has to be pushed instead of leaving shit up to chance and then going, "Welp! There weren't any good options at QB! Too bad. Guess we're rolling with Grbac/Green/Croyle/Cassel/Smith!"