Alex Smith expresses his desire to return to Chiefs in 2018

[Hammock Parties]

GO AWAY YOU ****ING LOSER. LEAVE NOW AND NEVER COME BACK.

Alex Smith expresses his desire to return to Chiefs in 2018

The Kansas City Chiefs' season ended earlier than they anticipated.

The No. 4 seed in the AFC coughed up an 18-point lead in a 22-21 loss to the Tennessee Titans on Saturday, setting up an offseason of uncertainty.

Chief among that will be quarterback Alex Smith.

Despite leading Kansas City to a 10-6 record and AFC West title, the Chiefs are said to be open to trading the veteran pivot. The team set up its future by trading up in April's draft to select quarterback Patrick Mahomes.

Smith has just one year left on his four-year, $68-million contract, and intends to see it through.

"Yeah, I mean, you kidding me? I signed the contract," Smith said when asked after the game if he'd like to stay in Kansas City, according to Nick Shook of NFL.com.

"I'm under contract for another year, so like I said, I'm not thinking about anything else. Right now, obviously disappointed. Like I said, I felt like we had a good chance, and it's gone."

Under Smith's direction, the Chiefs raced out to a 5-0 start to the season, hit a lull in which they lost six of their next seven games, then won their final four contests.

On Saturday, Smith threw two first-half touchdowns to give Kansas City a 21-3 cushion, but went 5 of 10 for 33 yards in the second half.

The 13-year veteran wasn't prepared to dive further into his future so soon after the loss.

"The game just ended," Smith said. "We'll get into all of that in the next couple of weeks."

[SAUTO]

Originally Posted by TigeRRUppeRRcut

Bingo. Smart play call. The spy faked a rush and was ready to sniff him out. Our O line overreacted to a 3 man rush

our o line totally shut down that 3 man rush. Smith thought Fisher was beat when he wasn't, took off. Got tackled

[pugsnotdrugs19]

Originally Posted by Sandy Vagina

You're right. He should have.

Still, Alex shouldn't have to save this Franchise's every suck by playing the perfect game.

He was very good in the first half. Only had 4 drives in the second half.. and pissed away 1 or two of them on bad choices.

Every QB should be allowed a few non-turnover bad choices per game.

This day, a day where the run game was minimal... the officiating and dropped passes were costing us points.. tKC needed Alex to be flawless.

He wasn't.

Plenty of blame to go around yesterday. Not gonna dispute that.

[SAUTO]

Originally Posted by Sandy Vagina

You're right. He should have.

Still, Alex shouldn't have to save this Franchise's every suck by playing the perfect game.

He was very good in the first half. Only had 4 drives in the second half.. and pissed away 1 or two of them on bad choices.

Every QB should be allowed a few non-turnover bad choices per game.

This day, a day where the run game was minimal... the officiating and dropped passes were costing us points.. tKC needed Alex to be flawless.

He wasn't.

We needed him to get a couple first downs on the opportunities he had.

[Reerun_KC]

Originally Posted by R8RFAN

He does when Kelce has a concussion... But damn at times that offense was amazing ... I hated how effortlessly the Cheaps seemed to move the ball. I expected the Cheaps offense to sputter when Kelce went out, I never expected that Defense to camp 15 yards in front of the wr's though

Struggled with it all November with Kelce.

[NWTF]

Everyone knows its time to move on from Smith. The replacement is in place. This is why you trade picks to move up and take a QB in the 1st rd. Theres no point in hanging onto Smith for a just in case everything breaks our way one last hurrah. There will be no one last hurrah with this team. This team has too many deficiencies aside from Smith to do anything relevant. All that would do is stunt Mahomes growth with Andy reaching for Smith the first time Mahomes struggles. A back and forth QB carrossel just prolongs the inevitable. The Chiefs just need to go all in with Mahomes with the understanding this is a new team and build it the right way.

[SAUTO]

Kelce out didn't hurt much with 2 minutes to go in the 1st half. Why didn't the play calling kill us then?

[DRM08]

Originally Posted by Sandy Vagina

You're right. He should have.

Still, Alex shouldn't have to save this Franchise's every suck by playing the perfect game.

He was very good in the first half. Only had 4 drives in the second half.. and pissed away 1 or two of them on bad choices.

Every QB should be allowed a few non-turnover bad choices per game.

This day, a day where the run game was minimal... the officiating and dropped passes were costing us points.. tKC needed Alex to be flawless.

He wasn't.

They didn't need him to be perfect. They needed him to make big plays at the end of the game and he wasn't able to get it done. For better or worse, Mahomes would have done something very different on that 3rd and 9 play at the end. He would have kept the play alive. Throw a pick? Maybe. Convert the first down? Maybe.

His teammates failed as well, that's obvious. Defense struggled in the second half. OL and receivers struggled. The refs screwed them hardcore on the Mariota "non-fumble" and special teams blew a field goal. That's 6 points right there between the Titans field goal (right after "non-fumble") and Chiefs missed field goal.

[Ragged Robin]

Originally Posted by NWTF

Everyone knows its time to move on from Smith. The replacement is in place. This is why you trade picks to move up and take a QB in the 1st rd. Theres no point in hanging onto Smith for a just in case everything breaks our way one last hurrah. There will be no one last hurrah with this team. This team has too many deficiencies aside from Smith to do anything relevant. All that would do is stunt Mahomes growth with Andy reaching for Smith the first time Mahomes struggles. A back and forth QB carrossel just prolongs the inevitable. The Chiefs just need to go all in with Mahomes with the understanding this is a new team and build it the right way.

They gave up on the season when they traded up to get Mahomes. I'm not sure if those picks would have been major contributors like Peters was Day 1 but you'll never know, the league seems wide open this year and the defense could use help plugging some holes. Regardless of what-ifs, the window for that core of players is for sure closed. There's no point in keeping guys like Smith, Hali or Derek Johnson around and trying to squeeze out production in hopes that "this is the year."

[TigeRRUppeRRcut]

Originally Posted by pugsnotdrugs19

SO THROW THE ****ING BALL AND GIVE SOMEONE A CHANCE.

You don't get wide open receivers every play. Sometimes you have to trust a receiver to make a play.

To who? Reek was likely double teamed. Kelce wasn't out there. Orson Charles had dropped a crucial pass. We don't have the all-22 film so we don't know.

[TigeRRUppeRRcut]

Originally Posted by SAUTO

Kelce out didn't hurt much with 2 minutes to go in the 1st half. Why didn't the play calling kill us then?

Cause Reid couldn't mess it up. Hurry-up tempo and letting Smith run the 2 minute offense. We've seen the stats, this team thrives on aggression.

Unfortunately, Reid plays to lose.

[TigeRRUppeRRcut]

Originally Posted by SAUTO

They did the same thing in the first qtr. He still beat them


When we get a lead Smith loses whatever little aggression he had.

He watched the rush and panicked

We were playing from behind at that point. So not sure what you are getting at

[pugsnotdrugs19]

Originally Posted by TigeRRUppeRRcut

To who? Reek was likely double teamed. Kelce wasn't out there. Orson Charles had dropped a crucial pass. We don't have the all-22 film so we don't know.

Mahomes threw a strike to Incompletrius Harris 30+ yards down the seam last week on that 3rd-and-10. He was covered well.

Sometimes you've gotta just give a guy a chance.

[Sassy Squatch]

Reid is the Alex Smith of coaches. Both of them can get the flying **** out.

[DRM08]

Originally Posted by TigeRRUppeRRcut

To who? Reek was likely double teamed. Kelce wasn't out there. Orson Charles had dropped a crucial pass. We don't have the all-22 film so we don't know.

He needed to keep the play alive by rolling to the right instead of going up the middle/left into the heart of the Titans front 7. If you keep the play alive, who knows what might happen either through Alex running or possibly finding someone downfield.

[TigeRRUppeRRcut]

#97 the lineman played it perfectly. He sidestepped left to present an open lane and waited for Smith to take the bait. Great play call and execution.