[DJ's left nut]

And then to SNR:

http://chiefsplanet.com/BB/showthrea...1#post12794851

Originally Posted by DJ's left nut

Yeup.

It's pretty remarkable, to be honest. It takes a hell of a set of tools to be able to take a team who's best pass catcher is an intermittently healthy Donnie Avery and be identically productive with a team that has Travis Kelce, Tyreke Hill, Jeremy Maclin and Chris Conley added to the mix.

I'm serious - how the **** does he even manage that? Give the guy shit and he produces like an average to slightly below average quarterback. It stands to reason that giving him actual weapons will yield some sort of ROI...

Nope - same goddamn guy. The ability to be nominally productive in his first year or two here with a bad line and zero weapons to speak of was pretty damn admirable. But the fact that he's pretty much just hugged that line of abject mediocrity while the team around him has gotten progressively better (to the point of legitimately dangerous)....well that's just bizarre.

I really don't have anything else to say on the subject - Alex Smith is who he is. And this isn't a team that should be looking to grab weapons in anticipation of our next hot-shot QB because 1) We have no history of lucking into them and 2) we have too good of a team to end up at the top of a draft with a shot at one anytime soon.

So instead they should gambling on tools and using their present veteran stopgap to give them the time they need to develop said tools (i.e. Mahomes, Kizer or Webb).