GloryDayz |
12-20-2016 09:44 AM |
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Originally Posted by Sandy Cheeks
(Post 12630407)
Of course, there should be a difference of opinion on this.
Fans can never truly know how good Smith is or can be until Andy stops dicking around.
If we never witnessed stretches where Smith has been very good... if he wasn't the winningest QB in Chiefs Franchise history...
then I can see your statement being valid.
The issue is KC and Andy has a philosophy that most/all teams do not adhere by.. and they do not have a clue of how or where to direct their frustration with said philosophy.. so it's easier and simple to just put it on the QB.
What everyone can agree on, and with no debate.. is that Alex Smith has not been an elite QB.. and can rarely if ever carry a football team with multiple deficiencies under this coaching philosophy.
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I'd buy everything you're saying if I hadn't witnessed his tenure here. Look, I don't want to hate on Alex, but I know the stats that have made him what the stats suggest don't take into account everything from the D being a scoring machine, to pure luck. I'll even defend his happy feet and check-down ways because he's had to actually fear for his life behind the O-lines they've cobbled together. Once you add those other intangibles, well, Clay is/was right.
I'll even go so far as to admit that I want a QB and team with a lot more visible on-field fire. I see his calm-and-cool acceptance of mistakes as pretty-much not caring; minimally it tells me he's not willing to get in a WR's/lineman's/RB's face for fear of being told to "shove it up his ass" (because they're better than him at their respective position). But I have that listed as a hit on the entire organization too, not just Alex. From Clark to our waterboy, there's far too many cases of on-field mistakes seemingly being met with no emotion - maybe even near yawns. I'm sorry, I equate that to potentially not caring and only being here for a paycheck. But that's just me I guess, an emotional game with muted emotion (sans Kelce) seem out of balance. I'm not asking for freak-outs, just something that shows us all that what just happened, whatever it was, isn't OK and had better be fixed by the next snap/series.
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