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Originally Posted by Detoxing

Like I said, look at what these coaches have done before and after their top QB's.

Tony Dungy was fired from Tampa Bay because he couldn't field an offense worth a shit. He was a defensive "guru" supposedly. He also had some damn good defensive players in TB. He goes to Indy, gets gifted with Manning, and all of a sudden he's a great coach....even though that "guru" could never field a defense worth a shit Indy.

Peyton, otoh, moves to Denver and now all of a sudden John Fox, who barely won anything in Carolina w/o a QB, is all of a sudden a great coach.

Carrol trotted out a sub .500 team two years in a row before Wilson.

Harbaugh was able to mask Alex Smith, but i'd hardly say he made him better. And as soon as Harbaugh had the chance, he replaced him with his groomed developmental QB.

I agree that Reid will make our QB's better and our offense better, but it won't be enough to win a SB, and it never will be until Reid finds his next McNabb.

As I said I think it's 50/50. Can't really argue with you on that. And I will stop talking Alex in this thread after this. But.. I think what Harbaugh did to Alex was give him an actual system to run. It's no secret he is a system QB, going back to his days at Utah. Not the most naturally gifted QB, but tops in the league when he has that system of being able to use his smarts pre-snap at the line and read defenses. Urban even agrees. To me Alex's smarts are what makes him the mid to top tier QB's in the league Put a system in for Alex to run and he'll excel. I think Reid will do just that.