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Originally Posted by keg in kc
Yep.
Alex Smith is literally to me exactly the same move as trading for Cassel 4 years ago.
Yes, he's maybe a slightly better player, but we've once again given up a 2nd round pick, this time for a guy literally nobody wanted in free agency a year ago. Once again for a guy that can't operate a offense that leans in any way towards the pass. Another anchor that mandates a 550-carry RRbC mind-numbing ball-control/clock management offense that plays not to lose. Another anchor that guarantees continued playoff futility unless we have both the best running game and the best defense in the league, and even then it will be a close thing at best.
And it's absolutely head-scratching, because none of that is what Andy Reid has done in the past.
I guess the hope is that he can turn Alex Smith into something he never has been, and was never projected to be coming into the draft.
Chase Daniel, on the other hand, I don't really care one way or the other about. It seems like a waste of 3 million, but it's not my money.
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The only possible reason for optimism in all this is Dorsey and Reid both said when hired that they will find the franchise QB that the Chiefs have been without for decades...but it might not be this year.