Chiefs might face QB Jeff Tuel Sunday.

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Originally Posted by Anyong Bluth

...and has led to Smith being sacked the 3rd most of any qb in the league. It's not like the guy is a statue back there either- as he's our 2nd leading rusher on the team. Not to mention for all the complaints about not throwing deeper to our. guys, well, you do have to be able to give him some protection to let longer plays develop. People talk about if you get pressure on Manning you can throw him off, and Alex is constantly having to guess which guy will blow an assignment and getting pressure.

That's not to deflect some of his poor execution at times, because he's overthrown guys and such too, but it's tough to get any rhythm down when they are limited in how often they can take shots down the field because I know they are calling a ton more plays that are short stuff simply because the protection can't be relied on to give him 5+ seconds many times.

Smith also takes a lot of sacks. It's his nature.

Part of his improvement in SF was using PA passing and having a ****ing all star offensive line...