Maybe it's because SoCal 49ers fans have a different perspective?

Alex is Alex. You can't fix him. This is what he does. If he gets protection he can be slightly better than average. Without protection he just sucks. Main point here, Alex is average at best. That won't be enough to accomplish the main goal.

We've never seen him with a good group of receivers AND a solid OL.

Anybody that says they know what he would do with those things is simply guessing.

having a dogshit supporting cast minus RB won't be enough to accomplish the goal either

Much as people want to blame the OL, Smith's decline this season was behind pretty much the same OL he played with when the team was on a winning streak. Teams started dialing up the blitz and Smith never seemed to pick them up. That's a problem. If he's not picking up blitzes at 30, he never will. I don't understand why Smith gets so many props for being a smart QB. Seems to make stupid mistakes all the time.

Speaking of not being smart... there's a great article on Rodgers and the deep ball. It was amazing to hear his thought process. Smith doesn't have that. Every single pass is wide open to the bread basket. No fades. No back shoulder throws. No jump balls.

The other thing that bugs me is... Smith will only open his game up if the defense sucks. And I for one don't want to be rooting for the Chiefs' defense to fail just so our QB can grow some balls.

Not to mention all the sacks that ****er takes instead of getting rid of the ball.

Oline, yes..., still will not help him get rid of the ball..

Receiving options?? ****ing Cassel did better with less.. Smith had Bowe and Kelce.. That should of been enough to look average.. Smith sucked this year on reads..

No amount of offensive line or wide receivers will help Alex.

The Chiefs are a lot closer to being the Raiders in terms of competitiveness than they are the Bengals or the Colts.

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2 years ago, if somebody told you to build a team around Alex Smith starting from nothing, what would you say? I know what I'd say. Your defense better win games for you because your QB won't. Give him a good running game because you don't want him throwing all the time. Give him TEs because dude is too afraid to throw to receivers. The Chiefs at full health might have a top 3 defense. They have the best RBs in the league. They have a pretty good set of TEs.

The two areas where they're weak are two areas that Smith doesn't help... at all. He doesn't get rid of the ball quickly or read the blitz which doesn't help the OL. He won't throw to receivers unless they're wide open. Honestly, if the Chiefs add WR or OL options, with everything else Smith has as a supporting cast, there is no excuse for him not to be an AFC champion QB. I personally think even with those things, he's going to fall way short.

Most fans i know and i live in nor cal like that he's gone. They felt he did lose the team. there is the small minority thats casual that things its a bad idea, but the hardcores i know are happy Alex is gone and happy jim is gone. Not sure they are happy about the new coach though. lol i see them mixed on that.

Aaaaaaand/thread.

And every Saturday, he works in the yard

Picks up the dog-doo, hopes that it's hard

(wuff-wuff)

Smith isn't going to magically become a qb he's never been.


Nothing else to say. The only question is whether we waste 4 or 5 years on him.

http://www.footballoutsiders.com/und...ack-breakdowns
http://www.footballoutsiders.com/und...sack-deviation
http://www.footballoutsiders.com/und...ssure-short-it

2012 is the only time you could put sacks on Alex Smith. He saw the scoreboard with the 49ers up 2 scores and ate the turf vs throwing a pass.

His style is 'my O-Line can not be counted on'. That has been the case for almost his entire career.

Matt Ryan wouldn't and isn't doing anything on this team unless he is bringing a Dome and Julio Jones with him.