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After watching Alex Smith play over the years; my judgement of him is that he is a fear dominant character.
Protecting the ball is great and all, but excessive protection of ball spells out that he is afraid to make mistakes. There is that positive correlational relationship between being fearful and conservative. When ones goes up, so does the other.
He may contribute to helping his team win games by not turning the ball over and limiting his mistakes; but he can't take over and win a game by himself because of fear of making mistakes. It's a pure catch 22 we are caught up in.
Worst of all, we have a coach that exacerbates conservative play and reinforces that mentality onto the QB. For this reason, I don't believe Alex Smith will change.
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