[Baby Lee]

I honestly do not understand the line of thinking that Smith will lead us to 'mediocrity' in the particular sense that he'll get us to the playoffs, but not the SB.

We've established over the past generations that regular season and post season are two different animals.

We've established through Eli that spotty regular season QBs can rise to the occasion in the post season.

We've established through the likes of Romo and Peyton that awesome regular season QBs can and often do choke in the playoffs.

We've seen Smith pull off one of the great comebacks of recent playoff memory against the Saints and nearly make the SB against the Giants [sans an Armageddon of STs play].

I can understand regular season pessimism, I can even see pessimism that Smith can even get us to the playoffs, but if one concedes that he gets us there, there is woefully little evidence that a playoff flameout is a fait accompli, and there is certainly more evidence to the contrary.