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Think you have to keep Smith as long as he’s performing. Mahomes is cheap money and he could probably use some time learning anyways.
He is going to be expensive, in demand, and will want a long term deal. Kind of a funky situation when you just used a first round pick on his replacement. I guess they could franchise him?
Well, they have him through next season and could franchise tag him if need be in 2019. At that point you probably have to be ready to turn the keys over to Mahomes in 2020 at the latest I would think.
I have them both, and other than Ryan’s bye have only started Smith once. As soon as I wise up and pick Smith Ryan will go off.
IIRC he’s had like 6-7 OCs, no QB can be successful considering his situation throughout his career.
He's still under contract for 2018 at $14.5MM so if he keeps this up and the Chiefs go far in the playoffs, I think they have to keep him at least one more season. That would still give them three years of Mahomes under his rookie contract afterwards.
My bad. I thought all along when they drafted Mahomes that this was his last year (per his contract). I didnt even think to look it up. Good for them...they have options next year, and thats very affordable if he can keep playing well.
He's got 11 passing TDs through 5 weeks. You make it sound like he's got an unreal number.
Usually someone chimes in with the answer by now. I know at least 3 or 4, maybe more.
The Chiefs have been in primetime a lot and to be honest I don't remember many cheap TD passes. One week he did throw two short passes to West for scores, but its seems weird to hold things like that against him when every QB gets some short TD passes.
I have his average TD pass this year to be 23 yards exactly. The shortest of which, 3 yards.
Do you know how many of Brady's TDs have been passes behind the line of scrimmage? It is likely more than you think.
Good post. Alex smith faced tough QB matchups like the vaunted NE D as well as the Houston D. The others were mediocre to lower end.
He's also got a slightly longer track record of being Elite than 5 games vs bad to mediocre pass Ds like Alex.
His QB ratings in KC:
Yeah, that is a good comp. Of course Smith has been in this Andy Reid system for awhile. It is certainly not impossible for Alex Smith to continue at this pace- just more unlikely.
Isn't a jet sweep considered a rushing play?mnmplayer said:
Yeah you're really stretching here. Is Alex Smith an elite QB going forward? Maybe not, but he's playing at an elite level right now. There's really not much debate on this there unless you really want to exagerate to make a point. I watched all his highlights from each week on youTube, and as I suspected from memory your claims hold no water. Almost all of his TD passes were outstanding throws (or at the very least "normal" passing plays) I saw Brees throw a shovel pass to Kamara for a TD, that should not invalidate the rest of his season.
I wouldn't even humor him anymore. Sounds like he's a little sour after the Week 1 game.
I don't own him anywhere but I always felt he never really got the credit that he deserved. He's finally surrounded with some legit weapons and he's smart enough, accurate enough and gutsy enough to take advantage of them. Of course when you have no downfield weapons, you are going to dink and dunk mostly.
