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Originally Posted by Kaepernick
Alex is a top 20 QB in the NFL. All QBs have some weakness. Favre would kill you with to much risk at the critical time.
Alex has his weaknesses and they limit him to mediocrity.
Alex Smith should be a starting QB in the NFL. He is far too good to be a back-up QB. But he is a mid-tier starting QB with some unique weaknesses. The example Cossell gave was of a unique weakness in Alex that keeps him solidly in the bottom half of all QBs.
Alex is a very good QB. He is a master of the short game, is remarkably intelligent, and still quite athletic. He just has key weaknesses that hold him down to being a bottom half NFL QB.
There is no shame in that. I have enormous respect to every starting QB in the NFL, as I do for every player to ever don a set of pads. They all have achieved a level of success in their craft that few humans on earth ever achieve.
But Alex will never be elite or anything close to that. He will never exceed mediocrity due to his cautious and over-analytical nature.
That is your QB. He can manage a well-coached top roster to a super bowl win but he can't put a team on his shoulders and lead them to one.
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Cool.. nice post. I was beginning to suspect you were just another Alex hater with some of the recent posts, but glad to see otherwise. I don't expect people to be claiming Alex is a top 10 quarterback... but some act as if he's not even worthy of starting. Oh wellz...