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Originally Posted by Cochise
We lost a playoff game in which he played basically a perfect game, throwing 4 TD, and haters blasted him for not throwing 5.
It's pretty clear that there's no bar he will be able to reach. If Alex Smith did take us to the super bowl, I guarantee some people here would still say the team won in spite of him and that he was trent dilfer.
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Originally Posted by RobBlake
true (bowe should have caught that ball...)
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Yep. Alex just could not have played any better that game. On top of Bowe not being able to drag his second foot in bounds on that last drive of the game for us (he actually DID catch it...), don't forget about Cyrus Gray completely ****ing up a wheel route that would have gone for a sure touchdown (the same play that Knile Davis scored on earlier). Either of those plays likely cements that performance by Alex as an all time great in the playoffs, if we had just been able to pull it off. But you're right, it still wouldn't have been enough.
That game in 2014 was eerily like the one in 2004 against the Manning Colts where nobody punted. If Priest hadn't fumbled and Morton and Boerigter hadn't dropped sure touchdown passes, we would have been talking about how Trent Green outplayed Peyton Manning that day. It's just flat insane what goes on with the Chiefs in the playoffs.