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Originally Posted by okcchief
I wouldn't have given up 2 -2nds for Smith. I felt like it was too much. However, after a day of sulking I realized I loved the GM and coaching hires and would defer to them. We have a stop gap QB for 2-2nds. We have an UDFA to develop that looks more promising at the moment than the player most wanted to spend the 1.1 on. So in the end you spend 2-2nds to get your immediate and long term solution. Not how we'd draw it up, but I'll ****ing take. Be competitive now while providing hope for the future. Seems like the franchise is on the rise for the first time in a long time
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Some of you people Just. Don't. Get. It.
Two seconds are nothing. Zilch. Zippo. They are unproven rookies that may or may not pan out. I'll take a proven NFL caliber QB in his prime over two second round potentials any day of the week.
And Alex Smith is not Matt Cassel. He is a guy that is a league leader in QB rating, passing efficiency, YPA, accuracy, etc. He is a guy who should have been a two time starting Super Bowl QB if not for a couple of special teams fumbles and a minor injury that led to a coaching decision.
This is a QB who our new coach, who has taken (imo lesser talented teams) to the NFC championship game multiple times, thinks is the best fit for his system and has attempted to get said QB numerous times, even prior to his arrival in KC. (And I can most assuredly tell you that this coach has done a lot more with a lot less than Alex Smith.)
If you think that Alex Smith is a "stop gap," you have absolutely zero knowledge of football. If you think he's a Cassel v.2, you have absolutely zero knowledge of football. If you think Bray is even remotely ready to play in the NFL, you have zero knowledge of football.
Alex Smith is a five year minimum, eight year maximum level starter from this point forward. If he's able to perform at even 80% of the level that he did in 2011 and 2012, the trade was an complete steal for the Chiefs.
Who in the hell do you think you are going to get in the second round that is going to be a bigger contributor to this team than a starting five to eight year NFL QB? Let me tell you - nobody.
And I was definitely in the "draft Geno" camp. Shit, I was starting the bonfire and handing out the smores nearly every single night over the past year plus.
But it didn't happen and it's time to move on and look at the complete picture objectively. And, objectively, Alex Smith was, hands down, the best QB that the Chiefs could have landed in either free agency or in the draft. That is, in and of itself, worth a second round pick. If he gets the Chiefs into the playoffs and actually wins a game, it's a complete steal. Two frickin' second rounders. For a starting QB? Pfffftt.