Originally Posted by Pawnmower:
*in the past 10 seasons , (so ignores the worst chunk of his stats) if you look at the graphic...Huge asterisk there, another reason people dislike that kind of "stat"
Ehhh the worst chunk of his stats though is easy to ignore because they were from his first years in the league and not later in his career...
I still wonder how he would’ve done sitting behind a favre for years like Rodgers did, and then how Rodgers would’ve done starting right away like smith did. For some reason I think Rodgers would’ve still been fine starting right away, because of his personality but Alex’s personality makes me feel like he woulda been pretty bad ass in the nfl had he been able to sit behind favre for those years... [Reply]
Originally Posted by htismaqe:
See this is the kind of moral victory horse shit that turns people off of the whole topic.
3 of those guys have Super Bowl rings. Alex is a nice guy and a decent QB but nobody gives a shit about a guy that won 70% of his regular season wins but is 2-5 in the playoffs with no Super Bowl appearances.
Fire up the bbq and beer for the tailgate for the regular season but not in the playoffs. [Reply]
Originally Posted by htismaqe:
See this is the kind of moral victory horse shit that turns people off of the whole topic.
3 of those guys have Super Bowl rings. Alex is a nice guy and a decent QB but nobody gives a shit about a guy that won 70% of his regular season wins but is 2-5 in the playoffs with no Super Bowl appearances.
And it would something to note if he made it to a SB, or multiple conference championship games etc.... but, his playoff success was basically the one divisional win 10 years ago on an otherwise very good team with a 29th rated passing attack. [Reply]
Originally Posted by KChiefs1:
But Mahomes is a turnover machine right? :-)
Yeah, it's really weird.
Alex Smith played in 174 games and threw 101 receptions. In other words, he played almost exactly 11 years worth of games and threw under 10 interceptions a year for his career. That's exceptional. Alex Smith's INT per game was .58. Peyton Manning for example, was 94. 251 INT's in 265 games, or almost double Alex Smith's ratio.
The problem is that Alex got his turnovers that low by taking less chances. Alex Smith's TD per game is 1.14. Manning's? 2.0.
Patrick Mahomes? A whopping 2.5.
It's the old Marty conundrum. You "won't" lose if you don't turn the ball over but you CAN'T win if you don't score. [Reply]
Originally Posted by :
An almost exactly 2:1 ratio TD to INT over his career. For a guy known to be risk averse so as to avoid turnovers.
By comparison, Mahomes' TD to iNT ratio, despite being a gunslinger of sorts, is 4.75:1.
And, if you broke up AS's TDs to INTs from the pre-Harbaugh to post-Harbaugh years, you'll see that the majority of those INTs came during the early portion of his career. [Reply]
Originally Posted by A8bil:
And, if you broke up AS's TDs to INTs from the pre-Harbaugh to post-Harbaugh years, you'll see that the majority of those INTs came during the early portion of his career.
And yet he still never really increased his number of TD's.
You simply can't make excuses for the guy - he played too careful to ever be a champion. [Reply]
Godspeed Alex. I’ll always appreciate you taking Patrick under your wing in 2017. I know some folks are doubtful about the impact of that — but if there had been drama or if that story was exaggerated, we would have heard about it by now from past players/talk radio (the Favre/Rodgers story comes to mind). Patrick and his dad have always appreciated Alex (and both of them know how important Alex’s support was to the dynamics of a locker room) and I absolutely do, too. [Reply]
