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Originally Posted by Megatron96
Well, I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree, hypothetically anyway. i know we like hating on Alex, but in reality he wasn't any worse than Fitzpatrick/Savage, probably in some ways he was better than them. So I don't see how Alex couldn't be good enough to put the ball somewhere inside DHop's catch radius on a semi-consistent basis. And Hill was great, but he was also used mostly as a deep go-route type of WR at the time (not an Alex strength) and his catch radius is pretty small, not the two-car garage hemisphere that DHop's is.
The reason Pat thrived was that he could throw deep balls and had the balls to do so at any time, again not an Alex strength.
But Alex wouldn't be in that position with Deandre. Deandre could run every route at an elite level short-to-intermediate-to-long, and had a huge catch radius that Alex could take advantage of at all levels.
In fact, I'll go so far as to say that Hill wasn't much of a plus for Alex because Hill's elite attributes of speed and quickness didn't help Alex that much as an accurate short-to-intermediate level passer, which is exactly the kinds of routes that Deandre is exceptional at. Alex was most comfortable as a dink-and-dunk passer, something Deandre would've been a huge help with, while Hill was a deep route guy, a passer skillset that Alex didn't have, and so couldn't take proper advantage of.
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Not hating on Alex at all. I actually liked him (not like the extreme Alex fans). I do understand that the 49ers were a hot mess and played a large role in why he never lived up to his draft status. I respect what he did in reviving this franchise after it's darkest time and for his mentorship of Mahomes. He was a class act and I highly respect that.
Now was he better than Fitzpatrick? I would say mean Smith was better. Fitzpatrick was such a streaky QB (Fitzmagic vs Fitztragic). Fitzpatrick at his best was better than Smith, but at his worst he was far worse than Smith. Now what hurt Smith was he lacked a killer instinct which came back to bite this team time and again in the playoffs. Hopkins would not have fixed that. Would he have been nice to have? Sure, but he couldn't fix what plagued KC before Mahomes.