LNBS: Can Alex Smith be "Fixed"?

[Saccopoo]

Originally Posted by BossChief

Go start another thread about drafting some linemen from Utah in the first.

Pussy.

I listed those guys because they are Super Bowl champions that we passed on...or are very talented young quarterbacks we weren't interested in.

I know you don't want to hear it, but Alex Smith is 31 and is coming off a bad year.

9-7 and beating the best teams in the NFC (Seattle) and AFC (Patriots) isn't a bad year.

9-7 with the toughest schedule in the NFL isn't a bad year.

9-7 with the worst WR and youngest OL group in the NFL isn't a bad year.

I'm not sure how damaged your short term memory is, but if you look back on the ten years prior to Smith and Reid showing up, I don't have any clue as to how you could call the 2014 Chiefs season a "bad year."

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Originally Posted by Saccopoo

9-7 with the toughest schedule in the NFL isn't a bad year.

It is when you could have gone 12-4 by beating the Titans, Raiders and Stanton-led Cardinals.

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Originally Posted by Numbah One

It is when you could have gone 12-4 by beating the Titans, Raiders and Stanton-led Cardinals.

Amazing, isn't it?

To think that a team who is, by Chiefs Planet standards, beyond the pale of shitty, quarterbacked by a stiff who can't throw, coached by a corpulent reerun and managed by a hack who has no nose for talent, had a winning record with the toughest schedule in the NFL, beat the two best teams in the entire league and should have had home field advantage throughout the playoffs!

That's actually a very good point C.E. and shows how close this team actually is to being an elite NFL team.

Three positional upgrades and those are indeed wins which gives this team a significant opportunity to waltz right into the Super Bowl, which should be expected in Year Three of a new regime that knows what they are doing.

I think that the Chiefs have made all the right steps in terms of progression under the Dorsey/Reid/Smith era. In Year One, they've proven they weren't the horrible team that they showed in 2012. In Year Two, they proved that wasn't a fluke by compiling a winning record against the toughest schedule in the NFL and beating the two best teams in the league. Year Three should see that next step of getting into the playoffs and winning.

I can't possibly imagine why any Chief's fan, no matter how much of a pessimistic anus they were, couldn't look objectively at the beginning of the Dorsey/Reid/Smith Era and be happy with the progression.