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Originally Posted by Shaid
Alex Smith is a decent QB, top 15 in the league. The truth is it is just unlikely that we can make it all the way with someone that has his limitations. I thank him for helping bring back a culture of winning but it's time to evolve beyond just being happy to put together winning seasons. I was hopeful that he was evolving(at least slightly) based on how he brought us back against San Diego but once he got a concussion and started playing scared and not running(which was one of his better attributes), the coaches clearly saw the writing on the wall. He's a guy who doesn't throw deep often enough, and won't run. Defense against us becomes just covering the underneath routes with no worry of a QB running and a slight risk he might toss a deep one if the play was specifically designated for it to go deep.
He's the best QB we've had since Green and he brought us back to a decent team. It's time to move beyond that and we've got the weapons to be very good if the QB can utilize them. Smith just doesn't threaten defenses enough to make use of the weapons we have. We need to get to where we expect to get to the AFC Championship at a minimum. With this roster, that's what I expect. Who knows, maybe with a fire under his ass Smith will play harder. History doesn't show that to be the case so far but it's still his team this year. I'll be cheering for them to go all the way but I still fully expect we'll be seeing Mahomes leading the charge next year. Smith would have to fundamentally change who he is for that not to happen. I just don't think that's likely at this point in his career.
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I have seen this or similar things like this posted over and over and over. I feel like people are misusing this statement and sentiment to a degree. It is not necessarily a comment of how great either QB is/was.
One of the reasons this statement is used is because of the pure garbage we had between Peterson, Vermeil, Green and Dorsey, Reid, Smith. The biggest reasons that either Green or Smith have been or were successful in KC is because of the GM and HC that they had. If either one of them had Pioli and the slew of train wreck HC we had under Pioli they would have been just as shitty as Cassel.
As usual the QB gets too much credit and too much blame.