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Originally Posted by Direckshun
It'll matter when we have to stage ANY sort of comeback in the coming years, and teams' passrushers just pin their ears back.
You have to understand, Alex Smith finally succeeded this past year behind an offensive line with three first round picks. He needs a great line to stay upright.
Keeping Albert gives us that great line. Drafting Joeckel or Fisher gives us that great line.
To say it has no effect is laughable.
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This team will not be staging many comebacks with Alex Smith at quarterback. It just won't be.
You can either install an elite LT in there (presuming any of these guys are one) to increase the odds of staging a monumental comeback from 10% to 20%
or you can go after someone like Floyd or Patterson in an attempt to ensure that the comeback doesn't have to happen.
The problem is that you simply haven't adjusted your expectations to fit the ceiling of an Alex Smith team. Unless you have the kind of defense that the 49ers have had over the last couple of years, you're never going to be more than mediocre, regardless of the protection.
If you're going to cite the 49ers as proof that you can win with Alex Smith, you'd be well served to duplicate the most critical component of the 49er success and the only way you're going to do that is through pursuing Floyd. Though I think Patterson's skills are so incredible that I'd be willing to try to simple weaponize Smith to the point that he has no excuses not to find someone to throw to.