Hunt and Alex Smith
 

Per Adam Teicher

Clark Hunt and Alex Smith had private talk in locker room. It ended with Hunt saying "Keep your head up."

"It's ok Alex, we're all still making our millions"

Sounds like it wasn't private if people know what was said.

Lamar won a SB with a journeyman, retread quarterback.

This anecdote proves that guys like Cassel, Green, Grbac are called for by the ownership and this will never change.

Maybe he released him.

Probably should put that dress on Hunt or Reid.

He wanted to know if Alex cashed that signing bonus yet.

I think hunt was going to give Alex Smith a candy wrapper he found in the hallway. But he knew Smith would never throw it away

Maybe he was apologizing for Jason Avant not being Anquan Boldin like that dude Wallcrawler on the internet promised

NO SYMPATHY for that garbage arm connected into SMITH!

Only time accepted for Clark or anyone telling Alex KEEP YA HEAD UP is if singing 2pac!



NO SYMPATHY MEDIOCRE GARBAGE ARM STRIKER!

I hate the arm of your weak strikes! Disgusting. Sorry heated but tired and not accepting to mediocrity!

**** man...the arm is actually connected into his body?

Like inside it?

****...

ROFL

WRs don't need separation

This team should be ashamed of themselves. Made a ton of donkey turds look decent tonight.

It should have been

"Keep your head up. We'll buy you some wide receivers, and an offensive lineman or two, next year."

That won't be enough.

Smith is a limited QB, but he's better than the detractors give him credit for. Shitty OL play plus shitty WR play is impossible to overcome on any sort of consistent basis.

If your goal is to consistently win 9 games and get a playoff berth twice every three years then sure. Four new starters at OL and WR.

Alex Smith might get you to the playoffs with that but hes not winning once he gets there.

That excuse doesn't fly.

Has to learn to throw the ball away.
Too many tipped passes.
Terrible throw out a critical third down following a defensive turnover

Smith is hardly the man to blame for today. Lots of other culprits. But he did not play well at all today and he needed to

Alex Smith was 2 lousy ST plays from getting a team to the Super Bowl, so your argument has already been proven wrong.

... And then he got benched, and the 49ers went to the SB.

Also you gloss over how bad Smith was on converting 3rd downs... Which is what we've seen in three consecutive weeks now..

That doesn't validate your argument.

That is what was said I'd believe. Alex Smith was under pressure every play.

I'm as disgusted as I've ever been with Alex for that 4th down but he rarely has any time

Why was San Francisco in a position where two special teams screw ups ended their season to begin with

Almost no niner fan's were panning for smith to stay there is a reason for that they were glad to see that dumpster fire go.

This is your response? LMAO

Because when you're in the playoffs playing the other big boy teams, games are likely gonna be close. Those mistakes would have killed a lot of playoff teams.

Alex was also horrible in that game, apart from two nice throws to Vernon Davis early in the game. His inability to move the chains, find open receivers, or convert third downs was a large reason the game was close to begin with. Yes, our pal Kyle Williams pissed the game away, but better QB play would have made those mistakes insignificant......

Is what was meant when this was posted:

I think what bothers me most is...
Even if he has more time, there are games like this where you see why he struggles on the final drive in many games. On the last series of the game, what do you have to lose? Take a ****ing shot at a receiver. On 4th down, there is ZERO excuse not to at least throw a jump ball.

In many comebacks this year, I see that guard being dropped. You see moments of excellent play when the team is behind and needs critical scores. But you see too many like today's final drive and so many other drives, where he goes back into his shell. I really don't know why that is.

Aaron Rodgers Matt Ryan Tom Brady all looked like crap against the Giants in the playoffs.

Completely agree

I know what he meant. He was trying to take the focus off of the fact that his argument has already been proven wrong, and trying to shift the argument.

And the "better QB play would have made those mistakes insignificant" argument is incredibly stupid, in light of how that postseason played out.

Smith's defense gave him the ball back in overtime. Field goal wins the game. What happens?

Three and out, San Francisco never possesses the ball again.

Scape goat Kyle Williams all you want, but you can't go three and ****ing out in a sudden death situation.

^True, but it wasn't even just that. He couldnt move the ball at all for an overwhelming majority of the game.

Do we really have to rehash this? Alex Smith didn't play great. No qb dis in the playoffs vs the Giants

I'm not sure if it has more to do with Smith or Reid but our passes are telegraphed all to shit.

It's going to be a slant, hitch or some kind of bullshit check down to a back in the flats. That's what it always ****ing is. It's maddening.

And if it's not one of those, Alex doesn't feel comfortable making the throw so he tucks it and stares down the pass rush until he's on his back.. Or runs to the sidelines for a 2 yard loss, which is exactly like a ****ing sack.

He's just a ****ing pussy, honestly.

Can't disagree at all

Rodgers did for sure, the Giants pass rush had him running for his life the whole night. Horrible game. :(

The falcons scored no points. 2 in a safety.

I think people forget how good that giants defense was.

They were beastly. Even more impressive than the Ravens '12 run.

Hunt and Alex Smith
 

I don't have any problem with Alex as a man.

He doesn't make the plays necessary for us to win football games and that's the only problem I have with him. Before someone points out his win percentage, I'm saying truly WIN us games. Not ****ing up and letting Jamaal Charles turn water into wine is not what I look for from my franchise QB.

What is your native language?

He was given an impossible task this season and he's taken $3it and might end up with a .500 record.

That's much, MUCH better than I thought was possible.

Imagine if we had a GM that built a team around his QB, gave him weapons, protected him, and a HC/OC who knew had to use them all...

No wide receivers at all, Bowe is a turd laughing all the way to the bank. Avery needs to be cut tomorrow morning. The O line looked like it had never played a snap of NFL Professional football. Smith was running for his life and the Bronco's just ate us up alive in every possible way. Having said that, Alex Smith needs to grow a sack and needs to become the leader of this team. Some one other than the coaches needs to rally this team because coming out two consecutive games flat as a pancake is not acceptable. I have a hunch the team is guilty of reading their press clippings and it got to their head.

I really didn't think Alex's play was all that bad tonight and was better than the score reflected. He threw some dandy passes when he got any kind of time behind the deficient offensive line.

Alex ended up with a passer rating 10 points higher than Manning, 95.0 for Alex to 85.3 for Manning. Peyton had the offensive line, the RB and all the weapons.

I don't get to see many Chiefs games and as a 49ers fan I can't say I really want to, but watching this game, it seemed Andy's play calling was much worse than Alex's play and Alex's play was really hurt by a lousy offensive line.

I know what you have in Alex and he doesn't push the ball down field or throw to his WRs much or often, but he is a master of the RB/TE short passing dink and dunk and you can easliy win with that if you have a decent defense.

You guys just ran into a buzz saw in Denver pretty much crushing everybody they've faced this year losing only to Seattle (#1 D), Patriots (red hot offense), and the Rams (trap game or just down game for Broncos).

Personnel wise, you still seem 3-4 years from serious AFC super bowl contention.

This loss wasn't on Alex. Not by a long shot. Not from what I could see.

The 2011 Giants-49ers NFC Championship game was between 2 power house defenses killing each other's offenses, and the first offense to blink and make a mistake was going to lose. Only, the Giants made 3 mistakes and the 49ers made 4 mistakes, so we lost.

If your point is that the 49ers offense was poor or mediocre, then agree, point made. Still, it is rare to impossible to make the super bowl with a top 3 defense and a top 3 offense. Pretty much the salary cap era makes you sacrifice mediocrity in one unit to dominance in the other. Both the Giants and 49ers built for defense, by chance or by intention.

A punt glanced off SF Kyle Williams knee in that game exactly the way it glanced off KC Marcus Cooper's knee in tonight's game, and that is 1 of the 2 special teams turnovers that he was referring to, that cost the 49ers to lose to the Giants. The other 3 mistakes were a kick return fumbled to the Giants, and 2 easy interceptions by Eli Manning that were both dropped. Actually, knocked out of one 49er DBs hands by another aggressive DB.

I'm honestly wondering how many 250-word posts you can make saying the same ****ing shit day in and day out for no ****ing reason. He's been our QB for a season and a half now. We know what we're getting with him when we trot him out on the field.

MOVE ON.

In the modern NFL it doesn't take 3-4 years to build a SB team...

That's how long it took to build the Seahawks championship team.

KC's 4 year clock hasn't really started yet given how bad Dorsey's drafts have been.

Eli Manning actually played worse in that game than Alex. Alex wasn't effective but he was careful. Eli was foolish

Eli threw 2 foolhardy passes straight into the open arms of 49ers DBs on 2 separate plays, either one of those turnovers seals the win for Alex and the 49ers. Now Eli also threw a beautiful pass to tie the game and put us into overtime, so it was a mixed effort. But at the end of the day it was just Eli being foolhardy but also being lucky and getting away with it.

Lets see if I can find the 2 GIFs of the the 2 easy interceptions from Eli our own guys broke up.

Here is the first. #25 has the ball and #38 aggressively runs into him knocking away what should have been interception #1 from Eli. By the way, he knocked #25 out of the game (our best CB) and the later TD pass from Eli was from the lower quality backup who replaced him.

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Not a gif but below is a photo of the same safety #38 knocking what should have been the 2nd of Eli's foolish ints away from #22, the cornerback who had the angle on the ball. Again, this 2nd int alone seals the win for the 49ers and the Giants are done.

http://www.pressdemocrat.com/csp/med...YPE=image/jpeg

Eli is a foolhardy gunslinger who needed not 1 but 2 lucky plays where lack of communication between 49ers DBs caused 2 easy interceptions to be dropped. He should have been picked off twice and lost the game handily in regulation.

For all his incompletions, by being more careful with the ball Alex outplayed Eli but Eli was just more lucky on that day.

That is a fact.


Don't even get me started how a too-quick referee whistle deprived the 49ers from an Ahmad Bradshaw fumble that also would have sealed the 49ers win. The ball is out with Bradshaw's knees not down but the idiot refs had already blew the whistle and = not reviewable.

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Alex should have gone on to the super bowl, not Eli. But an Eli vs. Brady rematch was a VERY popular outcome so...

Wait why are you white knighting Alex Smith..

Because he's a troll.

The entire forum was talking 4-12 or 6 wins AT BEST after you started 1-2.

seattle started with no one. we have A LOT of really good players. it will not take anywhere near 4 years if dorsey isnt a dumb ass

This is the joy of being a fair and honest person. The biased people on both sides will always attack you because you aren't in one camp or the other. I'm used to it.

It's a 40 YEAR clock sir...

Ignore is there for a reason. Use it.

You're overrating the talent on the roster by a wide margin here.

There are some unproven guys who look like they could be good starters (Davis, Kelce, Gaines etc) and a lot of league average guys, and then two really good players in JC and Houston.

Problem with the former is that he's a running back who's about to hit a cliff production wise and the other is a guy who will demand a lot of money in free agency.

Every major weakness could be fixed this offseason.

We need one legit WR and one dependable possession WR.

We need two G's.

We need to improve the talent at ILB.

The rest we can win a playoff game with...

Not unless you know of a creative way around the salary cap.

i bet if YOU took the hit he took from miller tonite you wouldn't get up and throw a td pass a couple plays later--youd be running home crying to momma

We could get a possession WR and a quality G for what Bowe is making alone.
Draft a WR.
Draft a G.
Draft an ILB. Sign one...

Seattle had a tremendous 2 year stretch in the draft, and then got lucky enough to find the perfect QB for their system in the 3rd draft. That's the exception, not the rule, even for teams drafting at the top.

no i'm not, this team is more talented at the top than most teams in the nfl. didnt we have the second highest amount of pro bowlers last year?

but the point i was getting at is that we have one of the best pass rushers in the nfl in houston. the most explosive rb in ther nfl in charles, we have a lot of other good players like poe, bailey, sean smith, berry(maybe), hudson, etc. and a competent qb

seattle had brandon mebane, red bryant..... and thats it.

it should not take us as long to build a complete roster as it did them.

I agree. if we had only dontari poe, and no one else, i would look at their model, and i would say, it is going to take us AT LEAST 4 years to build a roster.. I wouldn't even expect us too. but were not even in a remotely similar situation as they were in....we are not that far away. we have quite a few really good players. our problem is the guys around them completely SUCK.

realistically we only need a few offensive lineman, a few good WRS, and an ILB to have a very good team. I really dont see the difficulty in obtaining quality players in those positions when we have 11 draft picks, and can potentially save nearly 30 million dollars by cutting 2 players who arent really contributing much in hali and bowe.

If it was as easy as you seem to think it is, every team would do it.

i don't think it's easy... which is why i said, ". if we had only dontari poe, and no one else, i would look at their model, and i would say, it is going to take us AT LEAST 4 years to build a roster.. I wouldn't even expect us too."

but the fact is we have a team with some really good players, that are being weighed down by a few really bad players. we are not that far away.

the 85 bears would have gotten run on with mauga and jmj at ilb. it doesn't seem all that unreasonable to me to be able to find a competent ilb in the offseason with 11 draft picks, and money to spend by getting rid of underachievers.


on offense our o line is holding us back obviously. we have seen, that even without big plays from our WR's our offense is fully capable of being explosive with jamaal, kelce, knile, dat, and bowe when the o line plays well. that is obviously more of a project than the defense, but it doesnt take 4 ****ing years to assemble a competent o line, and add a decent WR.

Well, the main conversation the pat him on the ass as he's walking out of a private room was the keep your head up part.

Maybe Chunt was apologizing to him for almost getting him killed behind a horrifyingly bad offensive line...

:eek: ... can't believe I am typing this, but this is really a good post on the topic at hand.

Blech.

That is all.

That is what is so puzzling about his thinking. It's 4th down and 19 at the end of the game and he runs out of bounds for a loss! WTF! Does he want to protect his touchdown to interception stats? Throw the damn ball downfield! At least try to make a play. You can't complete a pass by running out of bounds.

Heh. Looks like someone's pussy is a little sore.

You have to get on the field in order to make plays, you ****ing dipshit. See exhibit A: Travis Kelce if your little brain has trouble with this concept.

When Avant finally got in the game, I saw him IMMEDIATELY make two catches and then get unequivocally ****ed out of his third catch by a mugging from a Broncos DB that went uncalled.

First game with the team, and already producing more than our 50 million dollar number one receiver in the biggest game of the season.

Bowe 2 catches for 19 yards.

Avant 2 catches for 30 yards.

Talk more shit, I could really use the laughs. Maybe you could tell that story again about how catching the football isn't really all that important for a wide receiver in the nfl.

what would be the point? He was tired of taking hits... why chuck it when it won't at all matter what the result of that play is?

why even give a shit about that one play? game was over..

I think we've seen Smith at his most brilliant when he has nothing to lose. He did that all game against indy in the playoffs. Whenever he's down two scores, he turns into an excellent qb. He pieced together a few excellent drives late yesterday. But in the two Denver games prior? Smith led an unbelievable comeback late in the game.

It's almost as if as soon as we get to one score, he gets conservative again. If Smith can learn to turn that late game "nothing to lose" switch on full time especially in closing drives, he could be much better. Problem is, this late in his career, it doesn't look likely.

The fact that Alex still can't identify the blitz and who is going to be open because of said blitz is ****ing infuriating.

Maybe he could show some leadership. At least show your team that you have some fight in you. Running out of bounds and giving up is unacceptable. It's like taking a called third strike right down the middle to end the game, go down swinging or get out of town.

It was already 4 th and it doesn't matter anymore, anyway.