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Originally Posted by htismaqe
Here's the thing - there's exaggeration on BOTH sides.
The issue is this:
One side is comprised of people that root for a TEAM. Some of them have been fans for TWENTY YEARS and have never seen said team win a SINGLE playoff game. Some of them have been fans for 40 years and have seen just ONE conference championship appearance. ONE.
The other side is comprised of people that came here for the SOLE PURPOSE of telling us how lucky we are for having Alex Smith. They proceed to tell everybody here how to treat said Alex Smith and how we have to think of him exactly the way they do or we're not good fans.
The reality is that the VAST MAJORITY of people here don't hate Alex Smith. In fact, even the majority of people that hated the trade like him now. You know why? Because he's gotten A LOT better. A LOT.
And yet, here are the Smith fans, continuing to harp on us being bad fans because we aren't willing to put a crown on him.
Only one side is out of line here.
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I feel constrained to say, that that is a vastly skewed sense of the 'sides' at issue.
I too root for the team, only I am infinitely more patient and confident regarding Alex's role in the team.
To my view, there is a lot larger contingent than you suggest that have been consistently and incessantly miserable that this team has not been an arena ball gun-slinging choco-penis swinging circus regardless of how well the team overall fared. Control the lines, do your job TO A MAN, and be clutch when clutch is what is required is what I expect, and this team has excelled in these aims for much of the season. When the offense was in disarrary there were numerous reasons, but they never cost us the W. When the defense was in disarray is bit us hard and decisively, costing us the W thrice consecutively. The offense have improved week by week, the defense has righted itself of recent, and the future remains unwritten.
Through it all, I have never gotten the sense that some have cemented from the instant he was signed, . . . that Alex Smith will prove our inescapable doom. To the contrary, I remain optimistic, that is specifically presently unproven but worthy of hopeful expectation, that he will prove himself as solid as we've ever the right to expect.