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Originally Posted by Raiderhader
I don't get how it doesn't matter. If you are analyzing and judging him, how do you hold events against him that he had nothing to with?
Smith is no Tom Brady. But treating him like trash just because he does not reach that benchmark that almost nobody reaches is asanine.
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I'm not asking for a top-5 QB. Love to have it, but that's unfair.
But there's simply no looking at Alex Smith's career numbers and coming to any other conclusion than he's mediocre. Now, we're asking him to "develop" at 29-years-old, when he should be in his absolute prime.
We know what he is, an average QB who is not good enough to win a SB with. However, if we'd paid his true value to use him as a stop gap, meanwhile continuing to turn over stones for a real franchise QB, I would have applauded the move.