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Originally Posted by Mr. Laz
That's dumb. No reason to not let a young QB learn from Alex.
If you want to worry about something then worry about a young QB only knowing our current offense. When Nick Foles entered the game, Reid didn't open the offense up. He ran the same dink/dunk offense that everyone around here claims only to happens because Alex Smith is our quarterback.
If Alex Smith is the only problem with our offense then why didn't that change when Nick Foles started?
Alex Smith is a smart guy who is also a team guy, he will a great QB for a young guy to learn from.
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Trent Green said it best.
The team had just drafted Brodie Croyle. The media wanted to know Trent's thoughts. Trent loved KC and the fans, and he was the true leader of the team in the locker room. Surely this selfless guy who wants what's best for the team would be willing to work with the young kid on stuff, right? The media was itching to write its first fan fodder story with some nice quotes from Trent Green.
Know what they basically got in so many words? "**** the kid. If he wants to play in the NFL, he needs to ****ing figure it out. We've got a coaching staff. They'll help him. That's their job. It's not my ****ing job. My job is to play football."
It's not Alex's job to teach the rookie. Something tells me he probably won't make teaching a rookie a priority. If Mahomes or Watson or whoever it is sits next to him on the bench and asks what to do in this situation, Alex can tell him what he did, but he's not required to hold his goddamn hand or quiz him in practice. He doesn't even have to hang out with the guy or like him.
It's a giant myth that veteran QBs teach the young guys who are supposed to replace them eventually on the team, and when they do, just because they're great QBs doesn't make them great teachers.
All that Peyton Manning dick in Brock Assweiler's mouth sure did Brock a ton of good, didn't it? Or Jim Sorgi or Curtis Painter. Boy, those guys looked sharp and wise from all that Manning tutelage, didn't they? And all those Tom Brady backups that have been successful for other teams. They learned by watching and talking with Tom, and now they're doing sooooo well, aren't they?
It's pretty well-known that Brett Favre hated Rodgers' guts, even if he wasn't a total dick to the guy. He didn't exactly "take the guy under his wing." Guess who did? The ****ing coaching staff did.