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With the beating that Smith has been handing the 49ers staff in the media, I doubt he's back next year.Way to burn bridges, Smith. I hope you go to Atlanta to compete with Harrington you no talent underachiever.-=kwantam
He looked very good.-=kwantam
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JMO, but I did not think that he looked all that great. It was obvious to me that they were dumbing down the offense for him, giving him a ton of short passes etc. They very clearly focused on the run.That said, he was more than adequate if that is all you want (a dink and dunk passer). He did not make any major mistakes, but he certainly was not going to go out there and win the game for them. Again, JMO.
He looked like Jeff Garcia. In the right system that works just fine.-=kwantam
Here he is, ladies and gentlemen... the guy who still likes Alex Smith.
The simple fact is, he has never looked good enough to warrant the pick the 9ers wasted on him, and now he's decided to compound it by whining to the media that Mike Nolan---his champion in SF, who literally got rid of Tim Rattay so that Smith would not have to worry about QB controversy---was being meeeean to him in the locker room.
Didn't they win the game???
You obviously missed my point there. Think of it this way, Kyle Orton won a bunch of games for the Bears a few years ago too.
Unlike Dilfer and Smith......he did give them a chance to win though. Smart plays, good vision, catchable passes, and a guy his teammates felt comfortable in. If you talking about being a fantasy option.....I agree, he's nothing to write home about. But for the Niners, I think he gets a spot next year. and moves up the charts depending on how he closes out these next two games. Definitely Dilfer or Smith are gone next year.
I completely agree with all of this. I may be completely wrong about the guy, and I do not expect him to be their QB of the future, but he certainly looks to be a solid player who could come in and keep things running when needed. I certainly see him holding a roster spot. He does not look remotely like a guy to carry a franchise, but rather like a guy who can come in and play solid football when needed. Sometimes, guys like that get a shot and do something with it. He may be one of those guys. But nothing that I saw out of that game made him look any better than a Johnathon Quinn or Jay Fiedler (who also came in and started in relief and did well during those opportunities). He should have ample opportunity to prove out to be more than that before all is said and done. I think people overreact to one solid game. Todd Collins was NFC player of the week last week, for instance and he has been riding the pine for 13 years or whatever. Hill may be much more than that, but solid play against two bad pass defenses (Minny is good overall defense but sitting at 32nd pass defense today) does not lead me to believe he is the second coming of anything.footballnerd said:
Alex Smith isn't very good, but your characterization of the situation is more of an axe to grind on Smith , and way off the target. Smith in his first 2 season got the crap beat out of him behind a sieve of an O-line. He took every snap last season behind that crap O-line. Nolan was the one who jettisoned Rattay because he didn't want a QB controversy, and he signed Dilfer to mentor Smith. When Turner was OC, he was the guy who could communicate best with Smith, and it yielded positive results. Turner isn't there anymore, and Nolan gave the OC job to a guy who is as bad as Tom Walsh, maybe even worse. There is no way he can help Smith. Nolan isn't very good with offense, and he is even worse when it comes to communication with the QBs. If an opposing LB during a Monday Night game sees the QB wincing during a throw, how is it that a his coach can't see the same thing? Nolan put some blame on Smith after that game,and later, threw his QB under the bus by saying Dilfer, of all QBs, played the best at that position since Nolan has been coach, and Smith really had nowhere to turn. This is the guy Nolan pinned the Franchise on. If Smith goes bust, then Nolan wasted 3 years by giving Smith the job after he jettisoned Rattay. He even went as far to say he was gonna be the starter before the season started, but changed his mind during the pre-season. The best coach Smith had was Turner, and Turner was also the best coach the 49ers had last season too. Smith might not be a good QB, but he has done everything Nolan asked him to, and now, Nolan is trying to blame him for his failures at coaching. I mean, he chose Hostler for OC after all.Here he is, ladies and gentlemen... the guy who still likes Alex Smith.
He's a waste of skin. He's a flimsy David Carr facsimile. Alex Smith sucks.
-=kwantam
Actually I don't. Maybe you should roll your eyes some more. Little snot."no talent undercheiver". The dumbest thing I've read here in a long time.Here he is, ladies and gentlemen... the guy who still likes Alex Smith.-=kwantam
