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Originally Posted by chiefzilla1501
Smith has been doing this for 10 years. Mahomes played his first game? How can you give him a C? Even if you're not grading him on a curve he didn't play badly.
Mahomes had two bigger plays called back. Not only did he lose yards. Half of his drives forced him into long yardage situations. A situation that Alex Smith has always struggled with. Didn't help that his supporting cast gave him no help. No protection, no running game, receivers with zero ball skills. Only part of his game that I hoped would be better was he threw a couple of throws on the run way off the mark. I'll chalk that up to first game jitters. But for a rookie whose reputation is to be a gunslinger, I think the fact that he didn't make dumb decisions yet had a few plays where he threw a tough ball makes this a very good night. For a first game, this is B+ to A-
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C is an average score.. which is what is expected from a rookie QB.. Not bad, but not great.. missed on a couple bad throws and his 1st throw was to short... That probably gets picked in the regular season-
Threw some screens, nothing to get excited about- hit a couple nice ones across the middle- Took a bad sack, Didnt see him take a snap from center and setup to pass.. Probably a good thing.. I would have done the same as Reid.. let him take some snaps from center and hand the ball off.. makes sense.. Andy's doing the right thing...
But yeah- avg to good start- Coulda been worse, and I've seen worse from rookie QB's
He's got a long way to go but he seems to have the skills for a coach to fix-