Covitz:Alex Smith will play entire first half of Sunday’s preseason game

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Originally Posted by Flybone McTimmerson

Yep. It's well documented that he stepped the **** up in the playoffs. But that one game doesn't excuse the mediocre regular season numbers.

I meant to mention this topic with an earlier post of yours but didnt wanna come off like a dick.

What I think people maybe forget (you) or simply refuse to acknowledge (others), is that theres a legit reason for those pedestrian early season numbers... not only was he new to the team but the system was brand new, a system widely regarded as the hardest to learn. The entire team was also learning this complicated system.

So they were still feeling their way through early on, learning each others tendencies and trying to get the system down... that led Alex to go into hardcore game manager mode, which is the right thing to do in that situation, not trying to wing it deep when you're not sure if the receiver is even gonna run the correct route, minimize turnovers to aid the defense that was rolling etc.

I dont think its coincidence that as the season wore on we seen things open up, we did end up averaging 35ppg the last seven games... nothing to sneeze at.