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Originally Posted by chiefzilla1501
If the expectation is that your QB be not just perfect, but be perfect in addition to dealing with unreasonable adversity... Then you've set the bar way, way, way too high.
I don't care about the early int. Every QB makes those mistakes. I'm just glad to see smith aggressively make a throw versus taking the safe route. The defense played so badly that they demanded a perfect performance from smith. Mistakes led by the receivers left well over 100 yards off the board. Those would have led to first downs that very well could have led to points. If not points, then better field position for the defense to maybe make just one more stop.
And so... We sit here and ask why smith wasn't perfect. We dwell on a mistake or two. We ask smith to continually overcome wasted downs on receiver drops, ask him to convert third and longs set up by penalties, ask him to score a td without taking a safety when backed up at the 3 yard line. On the last two drives, he overcame terrible drops and drove the ball downfield on two drives. It's hard enough to do without mistakes, let alone with them.
How would smith have done with a REASONABLE number of receiver drops? With less drives with really adverse situations? Smith's performance with a reasonable number of mistakes from his teammates could have easily led to 30+ points. That's an excellent performance. I'd just like to see him finally close out those games better. Getting to the red zone is a huge step, but he needs to finish that drive.
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There is one drive - ONE - on Sunday in which they don't overcome the drops. That's it. Pretty hard to add 100 yards from one drive. Every other drive? the drops were overcome. Look at the play-by-play. Watch the game film again. Something. The only drive that ended due to "drops" was the on in the third quarter, where Fasano and Jenkins dropped back-to-back passes.
You can't add a bunch of points and yards based off of one failed drive.
I don't expect perfection. But I'm also not going to grade Alex Smith's performance on Sunday against Denver on extremely friendly curve so many of his defenders are.
He played OK. Pretty well. Pretty good. However you want to say it. He gets a B for the game.
Excellent? Only in QB-starved KC could what we saw on Sunday be considered "excellent."