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Hog's Gone Fishin · 08-05-2013, 02:59 PM

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Alex Smith's Accuracy Sparks Chiefs Practice
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aaKansas City Chiefs QB Alex Smith wowed the crowd with pinpoint throws

Kansas City Chiefs QB Alex Smith didn't care that the skies were again overcast during practice on Monday; likely because his accurate throws would've outshined the sun, had it made an appearance.

Smith was on-point, nearly perfect, unofficially completing 17 of 20 passes for three TDs during the roughly two-and-a-half hour practice.

"It’s a reflection of the group,” Smith said. “O-line was great today; it starts with them. They did a good job communicating, especially in the blitz period, third down, everybody was on the same page and then there were guys making plays outside. We got off to a good start but really, I think the spark came from the guys up-front."

Among the many pass-catchers Smith connected with on Monday, Chiefs TE Anthony Fasano continues to play at a very-high level. Smith threw to Fasano three-straight times, late in practice, including one TD.

"He's such a dependable guy, so reliable," Smith said of Fasano. "He has such a great knowledge of the game, a great feel for it, defenses and how they’re playing him and he uses his body so well. He continues to make tough catches. He’s what you’re looking for in a TE, that reliable guy that continues to be open, time after time."

Another of Smith's targets was Chiefs WR Dwayne Bowe, whose best catch on Monday was a one-handed grab in 7-on-7s.

"That’s just him making me look good," Smith said. "There’s not much to it. I threw it up there and let him do the rest."

Bowe described the play from a different perspective.

"No, man," Bowe said of Smith's pass. "He put the ball right on the outside; he saw the inside leverage, and our job is to catch the ball; it happened to be a one-handed catch, but it was a great pass by Alex."

Bowe also shared how he's feeling just days away from the team's first preseason game of the year.

"I’m feeling good,” Bowe said. "We’re going against the best every day at practice, so when we get to the games, we will be ready."

Following Smith, Chiefs QB Chase Daniel stepped in Monday and continues to move the ball effectively, highlighted by his completion to a determined Chiefs TE Tony Moeaki on a third-down play in the red zone.

"Chase did a great job of getting the ball out quick," Moeaki said. "I was just trying to get the ball vertical and it was a third-down play, so getting the first down in the red zone, that’s huge. We as a TE group feel that’s where our number should be called; we’re just trying to help the team score."

Later in 11-on-11s, Chiefs QB Ricky Stanzi closed out the drill with a beauty of a throw for a TD to Chiefs rookie WR Frankie Hammond Jr.

"It was a great throw by Ricky,” Hammond Jr. said. "I kind of pinned the guy inside and he just made a great throw and I went up and got it."

Like the other Chiefs rookies, Hammond Jr. is ready and waiting for his opportunity to shine on Friday night.

"Definitely,” Hammond Jr said. "It’s just ‘lay it out all on the table’; you’ll only get so many opportunities in these preseason games, so when we get out there, we have to make the most of them and go out there and play hard."

The team played hard yet again today, which caught the eye of Chiefs head coach Andy Reid.

"Good work today," coach Reid said.

"This is our fifth day in a row of full contact and going. This is our longest stretch; we’ll have another day tomorrow. So, the guys pushed through a big red zone day today, big 3RD-and-long day today. I thought they traded back and forth, challenging each other and working hard.”

Part of the hard work paid off for the defense in 11-on-11s, when Chiefs DB Otha Foster III was in the right place at the right time for his pick-six INT.

"I was playing free," Foster III said. "The guy dragged across and the QB threw it to him, bounced off his shoulder and landed in my hands. We were going full contact, all the way, tackling to the ground and that’s why I ran it all the way back."

Foster hopes to carry the defensive momentum with him into Friday's road game against the Saints.

"I feel good about that because it’s close to my hometown in Louisiana," he said. "I’m going to have a lot of family there and they love the Saints, except when I’m playing; they’ll be on my side (on) Friday.”

The Chiefs return to the practice field tomorrow, before a day off on Wednesday, travel day to New Orleans on Thursday and then, the real fun begins Friday night at 7:00 PM CDT, from the Mercedes-Benz

**SAUTO** · 08-07-2013, 07:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Tombstone RJ

Do you have any source saying that Manning initiated contact? Why would Manning contact the Niners only to tell them "no"?

I think your BS is getting a little too deep.

Its was all spin because they had to go back to Smith.
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Sandy Vagina · 08-07-2013, 07:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Tombstone RJ

Do you have any source saying that Manning initiated contact? Why would Manning contact the Niners to only tell them "no"?

I think your BS is getting a little too deep.

It's called bargaining leverage from the other interested teams... duh.

Alex did have a contract on the table ready to sign. I have no interest in digging up links for you. Do it yourself, if you really care. SF wouldn't pay 8 mil to Alex AND a boat-load to Peyton. So it's easy enough to deduce that Manning or agent contacted SF. Now whether they really planned on signing with SF.. or they wanted to increase their bargaining position by the mere threat of it? Who can say? It doesn't matter.

**RealSNR** · 08-07-2013, 07:22 PM

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Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud

There you go again, proclaiming that Chase Daniel is a "turd".

Please provide evidence that he's a turd. TIA.

Bullshit. The Chiefs have traded for one backup QB: Cassel.

Who gives a ****? Who in their right ****ing mind believes that Dorsey and Reid are in any way, shape or form tied to the past of the Kansas City Chiefs?

"Saddled" with Daniel's contract? Good grief, get a grip.

He's a turd because this conversation is about Super Bowl-winning QBs. You're not suggesting that Reid/Dorsey brought Daniel in here with the idea that he could one day win a Super Bowl for us, are you? So in this conversation, he's a turd. He's not the Saints signing Drew Brees. He's not even the Cardinals offering an "Eh, why the **** not?" contract to Kurt Warner.

The Chiefs traded for Cassel. And Green, Grbac, and Bono off the top of my head. And all those guys (with the exception of Stevie) were acquired with the intent to start them. Those traded players have played over 75% of the games since our last playoff win. All of those players have also LOST all of the playoff games since Montana as well.

And Reid and Dorsey aren't tied to the past except that the past sets up the circumstances for the future. They got to this team, which was completely devoid of legitimate QB prospects thanks to the decisions of Pioli and before that, Carl. They said "winning now is the most important thing" so they get some veterans and call it all good. That's exactly what Pioli did. Winning now means you don't have time to give a shit about rookie QBs, so they become extraneous. Reid is a QB guru. He made guys like AJ ****ing Feeley look okay. I seriously doubt Reid encountered several of these QBs in the middle rounds of the draft and said, "I'm so confident that none of them are worth an ounce of spit that I don't even want to look at them. Don't waste a single brain cell thinking about them."

Go ahead and tell me I'm speculating again, but that's all ANYBODY can do at this point. The fact is that Reid turned to Smith and Daniel to solidify his QBs. He might draft one in the future. I sure hope he ****ing does. I hope he remembers what Ron Wolf taught him, that QBs should be drafted in nearly every single draft; the position is too important to not do exactly that.

**SAUTO** · 08-07-2013, 07:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Mac-NinersChiefs

It's called bargaining leverage from the other interested teams... duh.

Alex did have a contract on the table ready to sign. I have no interest in digging up links for you. Do it yourself, if you really care. SF wouldn't pay 8 mil to Alex AND a boat-load to Peyton. So it's easy enough to deduce that Manning or agent contacted SF. Now whether they really planned on signing with SF.. or they wanted to increase their bargaining position by the mere threat of it? Who can say? It doesn't matter.

So Manning contacting the niners is a "deduction"?

Why did harbaugh have to sit down and explain to Smith why they went after Manning?
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**SAUTO** · 08-07-2013, 07:26 PM

And I'm sure if Manning would have said he was willing to go to sf they would have told him they already offered Smith a deal, he hasn't signed it, we snuck out here to watch you, but we aren't interested...

Jfc
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Hammock Parties · 08-07-2013, 07:27 PM

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Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud

*shrug*

6-0 UDFAs with questionable arms don't generally amount to jack shit in this league.

Do you deny the truth in that statement?

**DaneMcCloud** · 08-07-2013, 07:27 PM

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Originally Posted by SNR

He's a turd because this conversation is about Super Bowl-winning QBs.

You've officially lost your ****ing mind.

This is NOT a discussion about Super Bowl winning QB's. It's was a discussion about a back up QB that's spent four years learning from quite possibly the best QB coach and play caller in the country.

The fact that Daniel has backed up Drew Brees, who has not missed a game while in New Orleans, is absolutely NOT an indicator of Daniel's talent.

Quote:

Originally Posted by SNR

You're not suggesting that Reid/Dorsey brought Daniel in here with the idea that he could one day win a Super Bowl for us, are you? So in this conversation, he's a turd. He's not the Saints signing Drew Brees. He's not even the Cardinals offering an "Eh, why the **** not?" contract to Kurt Warner.

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Originally Posted by SNR

The Chiefs traded for Cassel. And Green, Grbac, and Bono off the top of my head. And all those guys (with the exception of Stevie) were acquired with the intent to start them. Those traded players have played over 75% of the games since our last playoff win. All of those players have also LOST all of the playoff games since Montana as well.

Grbac was a free agent, as was Bono.

Your anger is so ****ing misplaced that it's kind of scary. If this team upsets you THIS MUCH, you should cut the cord because in reality, you have absolutely NO bearing on what this franchise does or does not do.

Good ****ing grief.

**DaneMcCloud** · 08-07-2013, 07:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Alex Smith HATER

*shrug*

6-0 UDFAs with questionable arms don't generally amount to jack shit in this league.

Do you deny the truth in that statement?

Drew Brees

And he's 6'1.

**SAUTO** · 08-07-2013, 07:28 PM

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com...eague-circles/
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**SAUTO** · 08-07-2013, 07:30 PM

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com...eyton-manning/
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**SAUTO** · 08-07-2013, 07:31 PM

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/09000d...-manning-chase
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Hammock Parties · 08-07-2013, 07:33 PM

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Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud

Drew Brees

And he's 6'1.

Drew Brees was not an UDFA.

And Daniel's combine measurement was 6 feet.

**DaneMcCloud** · 08-07-2013, 07:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Alex Smith HATER

Drew Brees was not an UDFA.

And Daniel's combine measurement was 6 feet.

No, he was a 6' 1/2" free agent.

Aren't you one of the guys creaming their jeans for Russell Wilson?

Tombstone RJ · 08-07-2013, 07:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Mac-NinersChiefs

It's called bargaining leverage from the other interested teams... duh.

Alex did have a contract on the table ready to sign. I have no interest in digging up links for you. Do it yourself, if you really care. SF wouldn't pay 8 mil to Alex AND a boat-load to Peyton. So it's easy enough to deduce that Manning or agent contacted SF. Now whether they really planned on signing with SF.. or they wanted to increase their bargaining position by the mere threat of it? Who can say? It doesn't matter.

lol, I'm calling BS. Want proof, here: http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com...eyton-manning/

I especially like this part:

The 49ers held off on negotiating a new deal with Alex Smith until after Manning chose to sign with the Broncos, something else that led people to think the 49ers were interested in signing Manning. Smith ended up re-signing and didn’t seem too put out by the time spent with Manning, leaving the whole thing as nothing more than a short chapter in an entertaining offseason...

Harbaugh went even further to make the team’s commitment to Smith as clear as possible. He said the team’s “evaluation” of Manning was designed with the intentionof having both Manning and Smith on the team next year.

“Were we out there seeing and evaluating if we could have them both? Heck yeah. We evaluate and eliminate the possibility. For further evidence, we would not have given any player out there in free agency a sixth of our salary cap, and let six or seven of our own guys go. Hopefully that sets the record straight. I don’t want you to keep reporting the silliness and phoniness.”

We’re not really sure why this would be coming up at this point. You can use any word you want — pursue, evaluate, observe, court — but there was definitely interest – a word Harbaugh used on Wednesday — in bringing Manning to San Francisco. Denying it at this point just seems silly, especially when you throw in the stuff about keeping both quarterbacks while simultaneously worrying about your cap space.

This is the same coach who adamantly supported Smith, right up until he benched Smith for Kaepernick. So you can't really trust a damn thing he says, but that's pretty typical of "coach talk" in college football and the NFL. Point being, the Niners "evaluated" Manning with the intent to sign him. Manning didn't call the Niners for a job.

Hammock Parties · 08-07-2013, 07:39 PM

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Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud

No, he was a 6' 1/2" free agent.

Aren't you one of the guys creaming their jeans for Russell Wilson?

No, that's Hootie.

Point is...6-0 undrafted free agents don't generally make it in the NFL.

The fact he survived holding a clipboard in New Orleans 4 seasons doesn't instill confidence in me.

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