I've talked about this a few times in other threads.

The reason Chiefs' fans didn't care about the 2010 Chiefs is because of Pioli's reeruned media blackout. The team was impossible to like. Charismatic guys like Bowe were forced to give canned answers to the media. That may not matter to you, but it matters to the true fans. And Alex Smith is going to be a popular player among true fans.

I can guarantee you that with the media blitz they've pulled, if this team wins games, Arrowhead will be back. I hope we don't fall into the same dumb trap of settling for happy fans but medium team. But it will be good to get some excitement at Arrowhead again.

I don't think preseason games are meaningless.

I've said this 100 times already. The blitz pickups are on the coaches. Period. I don't believe I saw a single one picked up that night and the 9ers blitzed all night.

Also, have you guys never heard vet Olinemen talk about why they don't like the preseason? It's b/c the majority of vets in the trenches have an understanding that they aren't going fill speed. Then you always have young guys coming in trying to price something, and that's when guys get hurt.

I'm much less worried about Albert b/c I'm not altogether sure he was playing to his usual standard. I am though worried about this lines lack of knowledge passed down by the coaches of the blocking scheme. Especially with Allen, Fisher and Hudson. These guys have less experience, and the two vets probably don't know if they can even trust then enough TO hand of blockers to them. Then there is Fisher's lack of ability. At times his footwork looks labored, and his leverage socks. I hope to hell that it is his hand.

From what I remember, the 49ers never sent more than 5. Typically, your protection philosophies/principles will be designed with 5 in mind. So, for me, it's hard to really pin blame on someone yet despite my own suspicions.

No. In that GIF, if you watch closely, he for some reason thinks he needs to help Asamoah. The quick step was him stopping and putting his left arm out to help. Then before he can recover to block his own man, he realizes "I'm a fixing idiot and just let myself get beat outside".

Yep, this is exactly what it looks like to me. His brain's all ****ed up.

The thing that bothers me about that is he lacks the athletic ability to make up for it against a pretty average pass rusher.

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He's already had at last three injuries and we've seen what he can do on the field.

We haven't even talked about his fail in the run game.

I honestly think his hand might require surgery. Maybe it's just a insignificant one like Donald Stephenson had and they play him this week, gets the procedure done, misses the 4th preseason game and stats week one a new man. Who knows.

I don't feel good watching him favor it, hurt it in the game, then go spend time with an ORTHOPEDIC SURGEON on the sideline, and not come back in.

And there it is.

Funny that fisher is injury prone. I guess geno smith and Mingo just had freak injuries.

The quick stepwas to avoid contact with knife Davis, who is sprinting between them. In all the clips, he doesn't use his right arm. It really looks to me like he's favoring it. His inability to block guys isn't an athletic problem. It's that he's not getting a good punch in.

I am talking about the amount people are freaking out over these games. EEspecially in a new system and a training camp that, in my opinion, was way too short. We know what we have in Alex smith and game 2 isnt it. In the regular season, we will have more gadgetry and smith will be much better than critics like clay want him to be, but much worse than true fans want him to be.

His had one injury that is turning into multiple. It seems to me he hurt his hand, and he injured his shoulder trying to overcompensate. To my knowledge, he played most of his college career mostly injury free. He's not injury prone just because he's getting dinged up in one preseason.

He had no history of injury in college.

I'm not saying there isn't cause for concern here, but come on, people. Your reaction should never be larger than the sample size.

If we had drafted Geno first overall and he had the same injury as well as throwing multiple dreadful INTs in practice, I'd be on full protection duty against the truefans trying to tell me he's injury prone and a bust and we should have never taken a second round talent first overall when we already had a starting QB on the roster.