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You CANNOT be serious.

A little useless slapdick like McCluster who never goes downfield is obviously going to have inflated numbers with a guy like Alex.

He was also targeted 50 times more in 2012 than 2013. FIFTY TIMES.

And out of those fifty extra attempts? He got less than 200 yards.

Avery averaged 14.9 YPC or nearly 2YPC better than his "career best."

That's not killing a wide receiver. That's being far more ****ing efficient.

I've already posted the chart that shows how much Crabtree's production suffered with Alex vs Kaepernick.

Alex is what he is...maybe Bowe can get 800 yards this year.

Jesus Christ that's like 5 games at Avery's pace of 39 yards a game last season.

And Avery has been plagued with dropped passes his entire career, dipshit.

You have a really bad habit of making blanket statements, being called on them, and then qualifying them retroactively. It's the difference between making an argument and being argumentative.

CLAY: Alex makes wide receivers worse!!!

Actually, these wide receivers didn't show that at all.

CLAY: Idiot! I didn't mean those wide receivers!

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Maybe you and OTWP can get together and come up with all the magic statistical numbers that equals wins.

You guys are far more hung up on stats for individual players than you are actually winning.

That is unless you want to discuss the playoff game and then the stats mean nothing because we lost.

Nice cherry picking world to live in.

None of our wide receivers performed well last year. McCluster included, despite what you think about his "production."

Avery had a much better year in Indianapolis, too. And I told EVERYONE his production would go down here.

You don't have a leg to stand on. Alex Smith's ENTIRE CAREER is a middle finger to wide receivers and downfield passing.

So in other words, Avery's production didn't drop off much. Got it.

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It's not about producing. It's about their COMPARATIVE PRODUCTION. And compared to their history, neither receiver had a down year.

Avery had a much better year in Indianapols? Are you ****ing shitting me?

The guy was mediocre in Indy. He's mediocre in KC. Luck threw to Avery FIFTY TIMES more in Indy and that garnered a whopping 195 more yards and one more touchdown.

Your contention was that Smith makes receivers worse. That didn't happen to any receiver other than Bowe. Avery had a normal Avery year and McCluster had his best year by far.

It doesn't matter if they're both average jackoffs. What matters is that you're wrong. Smith wasn't detrimental to them at all.

The only comment in that article that means a thing is Teicher saying that Bowe has had a bad camp. His basis for saying that? Who knows. It's Teicher.

You have to wonder how much the underwhelming crop of free agent WRs this past offseason played in to the decision to re-sign him.

Bowe looked to be suffering from just-got-paid last year. That had better not happen again this year or he could well find himself on the trading block.

I would imagine the list of reasons to re-sign Bowe looked something like this:

1) Bowe's past body of work
























6798) The 2014 WR FA pool

From this week's MMQB...

Note that it was written after spending time with the Chiefs. Also, for the record, Bowe has said both quotes.

It happened with Michael Crabtree.

And it happened to Avery, too. Of COURSE he had fewer targets here. Why? ALEX SMITH IS HIS QB. ALL OF THE WRS TARGETS WENT DOWN.

And it will happen again this year unless Alex raises his level of play. Last year was not good enough.

I'm with you. I hope he does. I'm not happy with a top 15 QB. But I don't think he's fundamentally incapable of raising his level of play. And while Avery's yards went down, his YPC went way up. Alex is very efficient.

I would like to see him take more chances, even if it hurts his efficiency.