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Originally Posted by duncan_idaho
I don't know that one win is considered "proving" something. But we've had that debate multiple times on this board.
The Chiefs could win a playoff game and it could not prove anything positive about Alex Smith (< 250 yards passing, poor 3rd down conversions, lackluster offensive performance would do it).
The Chiefs could also lose a playoff game and have it prove a lot about Smith a lot of positive things about Smith (If he plays at a high level but they lose due to D/Special Teams).
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I could care less about yards except they exist as a function hopefully leading to a score. If Alex had less than 200 yards but made money plays on 3rd down and key plays to keep drives alive that's more important to me- making critical plays. So, maybe he gets us down to inside the 5 and Charles or Davis rush it in? He could have pedestrian numbers that wouldn't illustrate his play simply from a stat sheet.
No different than during our 1st part of the season he and the offense depended on the Defense and Special Teams to do a lot of the heavy sledding to get us to 9-0. Every game is going to be different from a proportional perspective in terms of helping
or hurting our teams ability to win.
I will say this, there have definitely been games where his play hasn't done a whole lot to contribute to the team winning, but on the other hand I can't name 1 game where I would say he's had a negative impact as to why we lost- like you could clearly point out with Cassel last year, for example.
He's had mediocre games, but his only game that we've lost that I would say he played poorly in was at Denver.