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Originally Posted by Maverick91579
They made the right move this year. For what was available to them, they made the right move. I don't know when or what it is going to be that is going to show you that, Alex Smith, via, trade, free agent, or draft, was the best qb they could of gotten this offseason. What more do you want?
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I won't argue that Alex Smith was the best available QB this year, at least for 2013 (I'd bet at least one of the QBs taken in this year's draft ends up being better than Smith down the road).
But if the best QB they could get this year is a stop-gap who can't carry the team to playoff success, who ranks somewhere in the bottom half of NFL starting QBs, I would suggest they shouldn't have paid a premium price for the best QB they could get this year.
Acquire a cheaper stop-gap, even if he isn't as good. Build for the future.
Only reason to pay the price they did for Alex Smith is if you think you can win at a significant level with him. Andy Reid and John Dorsey seem to think that's possible, but I think history works against them.