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Originally Posted by el borracho
No, he wasn't. Alex Smith failed to get the 49ers to a Super Bowl. That is a fact. I have another fun fact for you: The 49ers (correctly) thought their chances at a Super Bowl were better with another quarterback which is why Alex Smith was benched (again).
Alex Smith is not good enough to take any team anywhere. He will never play in a Super Bowl.
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That's a lot of worthless absolutes you are throwing around. Your opinion is noted, but it's garbage speculation based on emotion.
This fumble away from the SB was 2011. Let me explain. SF was in YEAR ONE of building Harbaugh's WCO. You understand why this alone can be a struggle? Add to that... due to the lockout, teams with new regimes were put under extreme disadvantages by not being allowed to get things rolling early on. So Jim gives FA Alex the playbook and Camp Alex begins without the coaches. Alex teaches the basics to the players until the league allows the coaches to return to the players.
So you have a bunch of players just learning the basics... you have guys like VD admitting openly that he didn't really know what the heck he was doing until late in the year. You have multiple injuries to the WR corps prompting us to go into the playoffs with scrub backups like Brett Swain and Joe Hastings starting. Wonderful... right?
... and to others.. Harbaugh wanted Kaepernick starting as soon as possible. He used the concussion to make that happen.. despite the reality that Alex was in the top 5 of all QBs and we were 6-2. Most of the talking heads thought Jim was crazy to do this. Most thought it was flat-out "wrong" to. Most probably wouldn't have done it... Jim is just kinda crazy like that.
Alex didn't lose his job because he wasn't doing very well... he clearly was. He was tops in efficiency and rankings. Is he or was he asked to be dynamic? No, not really. He just had the unfortunate luck of there being his HC's dynamic chosen one waiting in the wings.
Even Joe Montana got replaced by Steve Young. Did this mean Joe couldn't hack it? or that just maybe there was a younger, more explosive QB waiting in the wings?
Use your ****ing heads, please. Condescending? Well **** yes! Who on Earth wouldn't be with some of the ignorant crap being spewed???