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Much as people want to blame the OL, Smith's decline this season was behind pretty much the same OL he played with when the team was on a winning streak. Teams started dialing up the blitz and Smith never seemed to pick them up. That's a problem. If he's not picking up blitzes at 30, he never will. I don't understand why Smith gets so many props for being a smart QB. Seems to make stupid mistakes all the time.
Speaking of not being smart... there's a great article on Rodgers and the deep ball. It was amazing to hear his thought process. Smith doesn't have that. Every single pass is wide open to the bread basket. No fades. No back shoulder throws. No jump balls.
The other thing that bugs me is... Smith will only open his game up if the defense sucks. And I for one don't want to be rooting for the Chiefs' defense to fail just so our QB can grow some balls.
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