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In case you weren't convinced yet, Monday night's primetime game between the Washington Redskins and New Orleans Saints proved that the Kansas City Chiefs made the right decision in moving on from quarterback Alex Smith. The Redskins got walloped 43-19, and Smith's performance was predictably bland. This wasn't just some game for the Skins, either-- this was a "prove it" matchup against a ferocious opponent.
Washington entered best in the NFC East and boasting one of the best defenses in the league, and to make things even more intense, the game was smack in the middle of primetime. And Smith posted 275 yards on 23-39 passing with zero touchdowns and an interception against a New Orleans team ranked 28th in the league in scoring defense.
Classic Alex Smith. Take 4 seconds and then stare down your checkdown so he gets killed before he can catch the ball pic.twitter.com/U40e9upbem
Meanwhile, in Kansas City, Patrick Mahomes is lighting up the league in Smith's place. The young gun leads the league in touchdown passes with 14 and has been electric from the jump. Of course, the Chiefs moved Smith to Washington after last season not just because they really liked what they had in Mahomes, but because they knew what they didn't have in Smith. And they were entirely right.
Smith is a game manager. He doesn't make a ton of mistakes. He can move a bit. He hits on some deep balls. But what Smith cannot do is take over a game. His arm talent can't hold a candle to that of Mahomes. He can't fire a bullet on the run. He most certainly cannot carry an offense. KC knew that and interpreted his excellent statistics last season as more of a reflection of their offensive scheme and alternative playmakers. While they didn't know that the young Mahomes would be quite this good so early, they were confident enough that he could operate well in their fantastic system. He was younger, cheaper, and from what they saw, more dynamic.
The choice was simple.
Patrick Mahomes is the first quarterback to throw for 300+ yards in the regular season against Jacksonville since last October, snapping a streak of 15 consecutive games.
The move paid off with unforeseen levels of success. Mahomes is the leading candidate for MVP thus far, and Smith has as many touchdowns as he has games played (4). There's no debating it. Smith is no franchise quarterback. He won't be carrying anybody to anything. If you want to win with him, you'll have to have everything else on your team be near-perfect.
Whether Mahomes can be the man come the postseason is yet to be seen. But so far, he's making the Kansas City brass look like geniuses for shipping Smith out of town.
Originally Posted by Hammock Parties:
Look at what they are doing over at Extreme Skins already :-)
:-) Have they allowed you to do your thing there or are they so ban-happy that they already banned Boba Fett? Shit, the fucking mange is able to tolerate The Information Minister... totally Extreme Thinskins at that friggin place. [Reply]
"ALEX SMIFF IS MUH QB"!( "bows up" his mighty, 130lb frame ).
Good god; Smiff was headed to the damaged goods outlet long before coming to KC, and it is a glaring damnation upon Chiefs fans that this broken shell of a QB was ever accepted by the fan base.
Thinking back to Reid's initial presser regarding Smiff, he flat-out said that he was "going to take Alex to the HOF". For real. And considering that Reid has NEVER since released any other such comments about any other player or situation, we can draw the conclusion that Reid was NOT engaging in Coachspeak, but was in fact bellowing the claims of a man who had gone to the Yugo dealership, and who had bought...the fuck...IN.
Reid was this close to having the modern game pass him by prior to drafting Mahomes. Alex Smith was the last of the "old way" or interpretation of Reid's offense, the culmination of building that offense around the philosophy of QB's coming to the pros in the 2000's.
It's not just about the talent level of the QB, it's also about the shift that has occurred as college concepts have begun to be incorporated in to the pro game. That Reid now has a QB with both an abundance of talent AND familiarity with those concepts( performed at an amazingly high level ), gives Reid what he needs going forward in to this new era. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Eureka:
Smith has the Redskins in 1st place in NFC East. He is what he is.
The defensive line has the Redkins in 1st place. Smith has just gotten their star running backs decapitated with his floater screen passes and is working on getting the entire coaching staff fired with his mediocre output. He's an evil shit ass quarterback and a fraud perpetuated by Reids system. [Reply]
You spent the time to register and then find a thread last bumped yesterday, to then post that as your first post.
You should go find the nearest homeless camp, start jerking them off, until the entire camp busts a nut into your eyes, and then pray to whatever god you choose that you will go blind. So that nobody ever has to read the shit you decide needs to be typed out of the end of your cock massagers [Reply]
