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Originally Posted by chiefzilla1501
You're not listening. Cowher spent his entire career building around a power running game and a game manager qb. His offensive philosophy is to run first, throw conservative, then take a few big chances when the defense falls asleep.
Big Ben was a great value pick. Yeah, kudos to the steelers for making that pick. But you are making a wild leap in assuming cowher drafted Ben to lead the team versus being a perfect game manager. It is over simplistic to suggest that one pick at the end of his career suddenly makes him praise the gospel of franchise quarterback. Again, do you not see a scenario where his top guy would be Alex smith? Because Alex smith is a lot more like his prototypical qb than Geno smith is.
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The thought process for many with respect to Cowher is that this is someone who has seen and should understand the development of the league. Yes, he emphasized a power running game for the majority of his career. He also never won a SB until he acquired a franchise QB, and this should have been instructive.
I think Alex Smith is a possibility no matter what coach we bring in, but I also firmly believe that the Chiefs will draft a QB, too. It might not be 1/1, though, and this will cause an immediate meltdown. But I could see Smith plus a QB in round 2, with an open competition in camp.
I could see this as being more a possibility, actually, if Gruden is hired because he had a reputation of being an insufferable SOB with rookie QBs. Has this changed? No clue. But he hosts QB Camp, an ESPN construction, so people believe he has.