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For a team to win a championship, their quarterback is REQUIRED to be a pocket passer first. Teams put too much of their available resources into building an offense with a lot of playmakers for a guy to win it all only using 1 or 2 reads...defenses are too good.
They need to respect your ability to attack every zone of the field or they learn to only focus on the areas you can attack and take away everything you can do.
This is exactly why most discredited the first 10 games of the year of Alex Smiths...he didnt do that. He only checked down or threw to guys that were WIDE OPEN only. That style only gets a team so far.
It's also why he made a lot of us his fans over the course of the final 7 games (including the playoffs) he was getting the ball to the receivers a lot more and not limiting the offense. He was throwing accurately timed and placed passes to the short, intermediate and deep zones when the play was there to be made and when there wasnt anything there, he was killing teams with his legs.
I loved how he ALWAYS slid to avoid contact during the regular season, but was diving for yardage in the playoff game. The guy went out there and layed it all on the line for this team. If he can continue to do that, there is no reason he can't have a string of really big years in KC. He understands the moment very well and knows when to be safe and when to go and leave it all on the field.
I'm anxious to see how he continues to develop.
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