I don't have a problem with Alex being a game manager QB. I have a problem with not paying him accordingly. he's on a 4-year, 68mil contract. at 17mil/year, you'd like to see him produce more. at least IMO.
still love the Chiefs and hope they win a playoff game.
I can agree with this, but that's on the Chiefs, and not Alex. He's been the most stable QB we've had since Trent, which I know isn't saying a lot, but still.
If you don't draft and develop a QB, you will pay Alex Smith $17 million dollars. That's how this works. From what I can tell, every other QB in the top 15, aside from Drew Brees, Jay Cutler, and Alex Smith were all drafted by the teams that are paying them the big money.
An in terms of passer rating, Smith has had comparable passer ratings as Philip Rivers (5) and Matt Ryan (7), and he's had considerably better stats than Joe Flacco (8) and Kapernick (11). In the past three years, he's thrown for 56 TD to 17 INT (3:1 ratio), and he's thrown for 9600+ yards. He'll eclipse 10k by the end of the regular season for sure.
The Chiefs are 29-17 since he's gotten here, and they've had zero losing seasons, which will continue this year.
And he did all of this with his best receiver being Dwayne Bowe, and in his first two years, his top pass catchers were an undersized RB and what was essentially a rookie TE.
We like to give the guy a lot of crap, but the numbers are there, and he's poised to have a great year this year, and his running backs are a guy from Abilene Christian and Spencer Ware.
All I'm saying is that we're paying the guy like a middle of the road QB, and we're getting every cent of that. The results are better than what we're actually paying for compared to the ROI other franchises are getting from guys they're spending more money on.
