We were playing from behind at that point. So not sure what you are getting at

Mahomes threw a strike to Incompletrius Harris 30+ yards down the seam last week on that 3rd-and-10. He was covered well.

Sometimes you've gotta just give a guy a chance.

Reid is the Alex Smith of coaches. Both of them can get the flying **** out.

He needed to keep the play alive by rolling to the right instead of going up the middle/left into the heart of the Titans front 7. If you keep the play alive, who knows what might happen either through Alex running or possibly finding someone downfield.

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#97 the lineman played it perfectly. He sidestepped left to present an open lane and waited for Smith to take the bait. Great play call and execution.

And Smith was dumb enough to fall for it.

Gigabytes everyone.

4 down situation and Smith averages 6 yards a carry. If he jukes a defender he likely gets the first down. It's just disappointing to see this team go into another battle without its best players due to injury. And for Reid to leave Kareem on the bench.

Man I agree with you but on two of those drives it wasn't on him that the drives ended. On one, we couldn't run for a single yard on the option - no push by the oline. Second one is Olson dropping the freaking ball that hit him in the torso. So there are a couple of 1st downs that never happened that should have but lets just pretend its all his fault?

I think Alex would be a good fit in Jacksonville. They have a great defense. Alex is a good game manager and that's all they need with such a good defense. Bortles is a terrible QB.

ROFLWe will see soon enough.

I think the play calling stays the same, execution lacks

Lack of aggression got us there

He gave Wilson a chance yesterday and Wilson chose not to drive for the ball. He just put up his alligator arms and then avoided the hit from the FS he knew was coming.

Bye the way, how many drops were there yesterday by Alex.

4 drives in the second have which 2 ended on plays that somebody else screwed up and its Alex cant make the big play theme. Yeah, that makes a lot of sense.

Alex won’t win even with that defense. Whatever the other team scores he will score just slightly less than them.

If Wilson dives for that pass, his neck is broke more than likely. And he's not catching it if he dives.

I was at the Denver game. Mahomes targeted Wilson 10 times... all completions. (Wilson's one incomplete play was thrown by Bray) In order for Mahomes/Wilson: 17,19,24,9,14,5,19,13,13, and 14 yards. Wilson wasn't always wide open. Mahomes was throwing him open on many of those passes.

Smith really doesn't throw receivers open that much.

BTW, that was a career day for Wilson. :hmmm:

Alex overthrew Wilson. Wilson had to leap in the high as high as he could go just to get his fingers on the ball.

And, if Alex did not completely **** up the 3rd down play, they would not have needed the desperation pass on 4th down.

It's football. An illegal hit wins you the game.

You trust that the right thing will happen and you go do your job. He definitely left his feet too early.

Alex choked when we needed him the most...again

Please, no..

It was a bad pass dude. You have to throw that thing in there on more of a line. Wilson never had a chance to catch that pass realistically.

Last night was the highlight for the best 5 years in Chiefs football history! Amirite?!?!

As-is, he catches it if the safety isn't there. Other than that it would have required a 100% on the dime pass on a deep ball where the highest completion percentage is 56% (which, by the way, is set by Alex Smith this season). On 4th down I'd want a more higher completion route... post or deep out--just get the damn the 1st down and not go for it all when there's double coverage.

One playoff win against Brian Hoyer in five years.

Golden era of Chiefs' football

Funny thing is conservative Alex going for a deep ball on 4th and 9. Pretty much screwed the pooch on 3rd down decision and again with the deep ball decision on 4th down. Throw to the first down sticks on 4th. Maybe he figured it would be too well-covered.

If the safety wasn't there.... yeah. But he was.

Put it on a line and the safety doesn't have time to hit him before he catches it.

why the crying over another poster who doesn't go along with you on every single point. Your a big boy who has his thoughts on everything and that's great. You do a great job but don't be so sensitive to others take on things, its just guys/gals taking and arguing about football.

This group think mentality is silly and childish at best. Not saying this about you but about the board in general. Everyone should feel free to say whatever they want in here without being called names, that's just petty and stupid.

I think they were trying to be clever and catch the defense off guard with the early snap. I'm sure they were also counting on getting at least one more possession when at that point they had 3 time outs and the 2-minute warning left. Too risky of a call on a low percentage throw in that situation IMO. Just hit the deep out.. and where the **** has the backshoulder pass been all year too? We used to hit that thing to Bowe and subsequently Maclin all the time.

I'm sure the premature snap by Fulton helped the play go as planned...

EBA.

Everyone but Alex.

Why the **** is this ****stick allowed to post?

What did you expect him to say?

or not crawl into a fetal position on 3rd

He'll be back in romper room before the week is over.

such a false narrative

he didnt have to be PERFECT you morons

he had to do better than 5/10 for 31 yards in the second half...maybe 1 more 1st down? one more drive? No, NOT PERFECT...just better

There is something in between PERFECT and AVERRAGE...ALex is average, we need GOOD ENOUGH

Against the titans he didnt play good enough. Period. A "good 1st half" doesnt mean shit.

How about just play better than Marcus Mariota? NO ONE IS ASKING FOR PERFECTION HERE

morons

My god the 4th down was a complete abortion

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Early snap, Alex is pressured because Schwartz guy comes through due to Schwartz not knowing the ball was snapped.

How is this not completely on Alex? The play is sent and the QB tells the offense in the huddle what the snap count is.

There was obviously confusion somewhere

I don't know why these concepts are so hard to grasp for some. Every year we have to hear this BS about how there were too many injuries, the team wasn't perfect enough..

It's the ****ing NFL. You're never going to go without key injuries. You're never going to have the best offense, defense, and special teams. You can never count on everything to be tee'd up for you.

Come January, you'd better have one of two things. Either an all-time great defense that can carry the team, or an elite QB who can mask other issues and elevate the rest of his teammates.

The Chiefs haven't had either for these past five years.

Quoted for truth.

Perfection = getting a couple 1st downs in the entire second half

/alexians

Alex led a nice drive for a TD without Kelce to end the half. That was him using Demarcus Robinson.

Why couldn’t Alex do that in the 2nd half?

What else is he supposed to say? It actually helps his trade value if teams think he actually might not be traded.

That's ridiculous.

How do you know it was premature?

Maybe Alex just wasn't ready for it.

Fulton is the only one moving on that play. The rest of the OL didn't move until the man across from him moved.

Cluster****

Right? Comparing Smith to Cassel is laughable.

We had 4 downs to get only 10 yards for an attempt at a field goal.

And Smith still had time to move to his left and step up in the pocket. But Smith did what Smith does....he shit his pants.

They are the perfect trade partner for Alex.

He looks like he could have ran for it on 4th down

They had him spied.

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From Andy’s presser today. There’s about to be some big changes and Alex is one of them.

Yep, and we had 2 ol between him and the qb. He had a better shot there than on 3rd

and thats just that drive

we had the whole second half to....do ....ANYTHING

but that is "demanding perfection"

#LOL

What do you think the Jags might be willing to give up in the trade? Jags must be pretty desperate for a solid QB. Need to take advantage of that defense before it falls apart at some point.

They should give us their 1st if that's what it takes. That's an all-time great defense that Smith could probably go deep in the playoffs with.

why is no one talking about the route combination? Literally only one viable route option to throw against cover 2 and it's a low percentage post 30 yards down field...

It won't be the same team? Yeah, what a tough day Andy.

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Its almost impossible for them to compete with the Browns I think...

The Browns have THREE second round picks, including their own...

Even if the Browns just traded their own pick away, that beats Jacksonville's second rounder by a mile and still leaves them with two second roudners

Yep. Cleveland is the spot for Smith. The defense’s arrow is pointing up and if Smith does one thing good....it’s getting a bad team to average pretty quick.

The Browns can send us the #33 and a 4th rounder for him and I’d be happy.

Jacksonville could very well send us #27 and a late rounder to combat. That defense won't be elite forever, they'd be wise to grab a QB who can come in and play efficiently day one.

Of course, maybe Veach doesn't want to help Jacksonville too much..

Do you think the Browns would give up two of those 2nd round picks for Alex? Seems like a good deal for the Chiefs if they can get it.

They dont even have to send us #33 and a 4th.

I'll take just the texans pick that the browns now have....(4-12 record)....

I think that depends

Part of the problem is , is there any team willing to offer more than the Texans 2nd round pick (that the browns now hold)...If that answer is no, then I think we are going to get 1 second rounder..or actually even LESS...unfortunately

edit: yes, 2 second rounders would be really great...but HIGHLY unlinkely ....... keep in mind we might get the Eagles second round pick and a 4th or soemthig like that (the browns have the eagles pick too)..The browns have a TON of options and picks

Alex Smith helped us bring the team out of a cesspool of losing and turn it into a regular playoff level team. He also just played well in the 2nd half of the season to increase his trade value. Veach should be able to get our two 2nd round picks back in trade for Smith, maybe more.

Thanks, Alex

Good luck with your new team.

LOL

We wont get two second rounders for him, Homer.

Rappaport thinks we could

I would jism

I think if we do , it will be the Eagles 2nd rounder (low) and the Browns 2nd from 2019

My god that would be...amazing

I mean another team could give us their 2nd from this year and next too....but who? and why?

I dont see it

I express my desire for Alex Smith to go the **** away, forever.

I have no clue

Just going by what he said.

Wonder if someone would give up a 1st?

I think the Jags might be the only team to do that. Maybe the Bills will give us back our original 1st? But I don’t see why the Bills would want him.

The cardinals might be an interesting option.

The problem is I think cleveland has the ammo to beat that

I dont know the math exactly but if the jags were going to offer Their 1st (or the bills) cleveland could offer 33 and something else that might add up to more than the jags 25th or whatever

again, they dont have the ammo that cleveland has but I do agree they would LIKE to....but how are they going to even beat the #33?

Maybe i am, but the league is desperate for QBs. They are going to be paying them 20m+ a year now and are willing to draft just about any QB that shows talent at all.

Alex Smith just went 24/33 264 yrds, 2 TD, 0 int against a solid Titan defense. He didn't have much of a run game or have one of his key weapons(Kelce) in the 2nd half. There were at least 3 huge dropped passes that hit guys right int he hand/chest which would have added another 80 yrds and a TD. So Smith should be 27/33 330 yrds,3 TD, 0 ints.

Everyone could see that the playcalling turned to garbage in the 2nd half when Reid (apparently) took over again.

I realize that most here hate Smith but other teams aren't going to have their feelings all mixed up with the situation like the fans do. They are going to see a Playoff level QB available for trade who doesn't turn the ball over and puts up solid numbers. They use 1st round draft picks on less almost every year.

The Chiefs need to pretend like they might keep Smith to maintain leverage. If they wait long enough a bidding competition could develop.

They can give us their 1st rounder

It just depends on if the browns are interested.

Trading Alex Smith will be the biggest boner since drafting Mahomes. It will make me completely forget about that abortion of a second half meltdown.

And Clark needs to take playcalling away from Andy Reid permanently.

None at all, and that's fine, he's an asshole..

Our guys are real gladiators.. ROFL

I got the best GIF ready....it's a real work of art. ROFL

He is gonna regress. No way he matches this years statistics. Some poor team is gonna get about 3-5 years of mediocrity. He won’t be our problem anymore so good riddance.