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Originally Posted by mcaj22
You cant just take Bortles 3 best games out and cherry pick his stats. Thats what got him on the list his ability to have a hot streak for a string of games. Thats how a team sometimes gets to the Super Bowl ala Flacco or Eli. Bortles has that ability to string 4 out of this world games together and carry his team. You take the bad with the good with a QB like him. He hasnt done it yet but he has the makings of it if the franchise ever compliments him and starts winning.
You can enjoy Alex Smiths effeciency and invisible touchdowns all you want but the fact remains that type of QB rarely makes the Super Bowl, Alex needed a historic elite #1 defense to get him there that set a bunch of records, and all those guys are now washed up or retired because they played so hard in that window for the 49ers. ( same is going to happen to your favorite Chiefs defenders as well ) It wasnt because Alex only threw 1 interception, they still shut people down with Kaepernick too.
So you enjoy the Trent Dilfers and Doug Williams game managers that take care of the ball and once every 20 years win a Super Bowl and Ill enjoy the gunslingers that toss it around the field and can get hot at any time.
To say youd take Alex Smith over any young QB in this game and that the Chiefs wouldnt be a contender, youre just lying to yourself and are a Chiefs fan content with mid tier QB play.
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Where the **** did I say that? JFC, talk about putting words in somebody's mouth.
I'm not even saying Bortles can't/won't be better than Alex. I'm just saying the Bortles of 2015 was not. We certainly wouldn't have gone any further with him, and probably don't even make the playoffs.
Also, that's not cherry picking stats as much as it is not allowing 3 big games against shit teams with terrible defenses that still ended up in losses excuse how bad he was for the majority of the season. 13 of his 38 TD's came in those 3 games. You can't just ****ing ignore that.
He played 3-4 playoff caliber defenses all year and wasn't very good against either of them. Can we at least see him do it against a defense that isn't among the NFL's worst before we make ridiculous claims?