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Originally Posted by SNR
"Smart" Alex Smith (yes, he's a smart QB) looked like a ****ing dumbass out there for at least his first 6 seasons in the league. Can't beat out Mark Sanchez as a rookie? Try not being able to KEEP HIS JOB over the likes of Shaun Hill and JT O'Sullivan.
And I'm not shitting on Alex Smith here. I'm really not.
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Not making a big thing of this, but there is either intellectual dishonesty or straight ignorance flowing here.
Continue reading or don't... but if you want to know what's what? Then continue on...
Alex's rookie season was no doubt abysmal.. that much is true. Terrible personnel and novice and horrid HC.. 20 year old Urban Meyer QB getting thrown out on the field in a WCO run by a 1st year OC.
Alex had a pretty solid 2nd year with Norv Turner as 1st yr OC. It was even better than the 2nd year put up by HOF-er Troy Aikman, and Troy had a much better team supporting him. Norv departs when offered a HC job... ****!!!
Alex's year 3 was going okay, considering that Jim Hostler was the new OC... ask any SF fan and they laugh and cry about that turd.... SF was 2-1... that loss being @ Pittsburgh. Then in game 4, Alex got the separated shoulder vs the Hawks. Then, Alex was goaded by his HC to get back out there and play a month later... that did not go well, and everyone could tell that Alex was throwing with a damaged shoulder. Hostler is fired for being the turd he was.
In year 4, Nolan brought in Mike Martz.. and Martz brought in "his guy" J.T. O'Sullivan. While there was a QB competition, it was not an even one, as Alex's shoulder was heading for surgery #2... a wire was accidentally left in his shoulder and was sawing through the bone with each pass attempt. Oops. He went to I.R. before the first regular season game.
In the late part of year 4 while Alex was on I.R... O'Sullivan was yanked out for poor play and in came Shaun Hill. Martz was struggling as OC and SF brought in Ted Tollner to "assist" with the playcalling. So Shaun Hill did a pretty decent job in spot duty... mostly playing vs crap defenses, IIRC.
Because Hill did fairly well.. and because Singletary.. now the HC.. was an offense-impaired moron, he let Hill take the reins. Hill became remarkably ineffective once defenses had his number.. so in comes Alex around late Oct.. He steps in and does well in some games.. in others, just okay.. a couple of stinkers in there.. but again, this is a crap Singletary offense of predictability.
2010 kicks in, and there are still lots of underwhelming games from Alex... still crap offensive coaching and predictable ineptitude gameplanning. So the OC gets fired after week 4. QB coach Mike Johnson gets his 1st crack at the OC job... It's week 5 @ Philly... and it's going very ugly... but this is the game where Alex just shuts out the boos and the inner pressure... and he starts turning things for the better.
There were some games during this season where Alex was out due to injury... so Troy Smith got the nod. Defenses were typically unprepared for this and Troy had a couple of decent games. After two decent games, he really started spiraling... and Singletary was late in making the change back to Alex. Singletary was on the hot seat and was panicking.. QB carousel in full. Since that time back in week 5 @ Philly, Alex was looking like a pretty good and consistent (as reasonably consistent as QBs are) quarterback.
2011.. Harbaugh and Co. take over... they want Alex back to bridge the gap and turn their franchise into a winner. He does... not with big production, but by being efficient and safe.. but making enough plays to allow for wins.