"Is Having Alex Smith the Worst Purgatory in Football?"--Dan LeBatard

['Hamas' Jenkins]

He mentioned it a few times on his radio show today. The quotes in reference is from the top of the second hour. in full:

"What is the worst purgatory in football? Is it Alex Smith, where you're going to be OK, and hugely boring, and never win anything, or is it the whole Philip Rivers situation of always being down late and having to go the whole length of the field?"

"It's not Hell; it's Purgatory. You're OK, but you're not good enough and you're not going to be good enough."

"You're not going to do any sort of meaningful winning with Alex Smith as your QB. Nothing."

"It's hard to watch when you watch what they were playing against and he's, 'all I wanna do is not turn the ball over, all I wanna do is it's 3rd and 9 and I'll throw it three yards, or I'll take a sack.'"

"You'll get to the playoffs, and you'll lose."

[Dave Lane]

Originally Posted by Dagnabit

And some of them are so old, my age even, and they spent the last 3 weeks hopping around the board, tailing people who dared even raise to the idea that Alex Smith was shit, and Andy a post-season loser, incessantly flapping their raging vagina lips, spouting nonsense about Alex Smith being a "franchise QB", even.

And they can straight go get ****ed, as it pleases me to no end to see their absurd sand castle come crashing down to the ground around them.

****ing idiots.

I'd rep you if my iPad would let me.

The thing I absolutely don't understand is why the **** the front office doesn't draft a new shiny QB toy for all the homers to drool over. Hell my chiefs moral would soar if we took a promising QB in the 1st round. Even if he crashes and burns at least we ****ing tried. And least I could dream and hope for a QB that could break it off in the other teams ass. It would be so glorious.

[Sweet Daddy Hate]

Originally Posted by Dave Lane

I'd rep you if my iPad would let me.

The thing I absolutely don't understand is why the **** the front office doesn't draft a new shiny QB toy for all the homers to drool over. Hell my chiefs moral would soar if we took a promising QB in the 1st round. Even if he crashes and burns at least we ****ing tried. And least I could dream and hope for a QB that could break it off in the other teams ass. It would be so glorious.

Sales of shitty stadium food might drop.

[Dave Lane]

Originally Posted by Dagnabit

Sales of shitty stadium food might drop.

I can see how drafting a fatty would help with shitty food sales

[Sweet Daddy Hate]

Originally Posted by Dave Lane

I can see how drafting a fatty would help with shitty food sales

Look at these clowns. LOOK AT THEM:



"YEAH, MAN; ERIC FISHER, BABY"! / "WOO-HOO; ERIC FISHER AND ALEX SMITH, ALL THE WAY TO THE SUPER BOWL, BABY"!


I hope these three tools woke up with screaming hangovers and penis on their breath.

[oaklandhater]

Originally Posted by Dagnabit

Look at these clowns. LOOK AT THEM:



"YEAH, MAN; ERIC FISHER, BABY"! / "WOO-HOO; ERIC FISHER AND ALEX SMITH, ALL THE WAY TO THE SUPER BOWL, BABY"!


I hope these three tools woke up with screaming hangovers and penis on their breath.

So you're the old man with his arms crossed in the picture Dag ?

[Sweet Daddy Hate]

Originally Posted by oaklandhater

So you're the old man with his arms crossed in the picture Dag ?

Nah, that's Milkman.

[New World Order]

Originally Posted by oaklandhater

So you're the old man with his arms crossed in the picture Dag ?

That guy new what was up.

He's a pioneer

[suzzer99]

Me at the end of the 90s: Man I'm stick of Shottenheimer, I'm stick of one and done.

Me at the end of the 00s: Well at least we made the playoffs a lot under Marty and had some exciting regular season wins. I'd take Marty over this crap.

Me now: FML

[St. Patty's Fire]

Originally Posted by Dagnabit

Look at these clowns. LOOK AT THEM:



"YEAH, MAN; ERIC FISHER, BABY"! / "WOO-HOO; ERIC FISHER AND ALEX SMITH, ALL THE WAY TO THE SUPER BOWL, BABY"!


I hope these three tools woke up with screaming hangovers and penis on their breath.

To be fair;

that draft was utter cancer.

The best players taken in the first round of that draft are Travis Frederick, Xavier Rhodes, Sheldon Richardson, DeAndre Hopkins, and Ziggy Ansah.

Just dreadful. Of course the Chiefs would get the first overall pick in a draft like that. A draft that did not have a SINGLE good QB in it.

[Bufkin]

Originally Posted by JCharles25

To be fair;

that draft was utter cancer.

The best players taken in the first round of that draft are Travis Frederick, Xavier Rhodes, Sheldon Richardson, DeAndre Hopkins, and Ziggy Ansah.

Just dreadful. Of course the Chiefs would get the first overall pick in a draft like that. A draft that did not have a SINGLE good QB in it.

Don't forget Desmond Trufant.

[Buehler445]

And don't forget Sheldon Richardson is a tire fire off the field.

[Bufkin]

And the fact of the matter is, Eric Fisher wasn't a bad pick given the circumstances. Guys like Sheldon Richardson, Xavier Rhoades, and Desmond Trufant weren't viable 1st overall picks at the time. Trading out of that pick was impossible, and the only other "elite" prospects qualified for the 1st overall pick (Luke Joeckel, Dee Miliner, Dion Jordan, Barkevious Mingo) have completely flamed out. Even if you concede that Eric Fisher is only a serviceable left tackle, he's still better than literally any other realistic option the Chiefs had.

Don't even get me started on the Geno Smith vitriol that was going on around here. Posters on here were flat out nasty against those who rightfully thought Geno would be a bust. I was halfway trolling when I posted that Matt Barkley would end up being a better pro than Geno Smith, and I was neg repped so bad that my red bar nearly went off the screen. In hindsight, it's pretty hysterical that I was right. In all of their shittiness, Matt Barkley is STILL less shitty than Geno Smith.

[St. Patty's Fire]

^Oh, I completely agree. Richardson was the highest pick of the bunch I listed I believe, at 13th overall. The top ten as a whole is awful.