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Originally Posted by Sandy Cheeks
If anyone "feels like playing this honest game" for perspective, throw other QB names out there, and defend why they couldn't get past their multitude of team injuries and problems.
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I'm sure we can find plenty of examples of QBs over the last 10 SB's stepping up, maybe even playing above their average play, to win. In the years where Flacco and Eli won, they had a lot of help. Even a lot of luck. But they also made plays in huge moments that maybe they don't always make. Nobody is asking Alex to drag the Cleveland Browns to the SB or to do it all himself. He has plenty around him, and even if they get injured, it's what he is going to have to do.
I'm not saying I expect Alex to do it all. But the NE game shouldn't be brushed aside as "well we didn't have Maclin or Houston". Smith needs to step up and pick up a little of the slack in that game, along with others. Do you think he did that? Do you think he can do that? Those are fair questions.
Another fair question, do you think KC would be healthy if they went in to NE this year? With how the year has gone, what are the odds that our Oline is intact? Our backfield? Our secondary? Injuries are going to happen. If this team wants to win or at least get to a SB, it will need to overcome injuries against a very good team at some point. Can't keep saying "well we might have won that playoff game if we didn't have injuries". A QB is as important as any other in overcoming them.
The crux of my point is this. IMO Smith will need to step up and make some big plays he typically doesn't if they are going to win in NE, or an AFCCG, or a SB. Odds are we are not going to be fully healthy in the playoffs. Whether it is fair or not really isn't the question. I think he is going to have to. So the question is, can he?