Alex Smiff says Mahomes making him and former Chiefs QB's look bad...

[ModSocks]

Alex Smith gets to revel in Mahomes greatness. He's playing it smart. It would be stupid of him to be anything but complimentary and helpful to Mahomes.

He'll go down in history forever as the veteran QB mentor for the GOAT.

[The Franchise]

Originally Posted by Detoxing

Alex Smith gets to revel in Mahomes greatness. He's playing it smart. It would be stupid of him to be anything but complimentary and helpful to Mahomes.

He'll go down in history forever as the veteran QB mentor for the GOAT.

Yep. He'll always get to say that he helped become who he was. Most people in KC will know the real truth though.

[CoMoChief]

Originally Posted by The Pest

Yep. He'll always get to say that he helped become who he was. Most people in KC will know the real truth though.

Well the truth is that he helped Mahomes learn how to be a NFL QB.

Nothing wrong w/ that. KC fans know Smith sucks. An avg at best, game managing play-it-safe QB.

But there is no longer any reason to beat that dead horse anymore...let Redskins fans cry in their beers watching 3yd passes on 3rd n 8. Will not miss any of that shit..that I can tell you.

BUT...

He ended up being the perfect Ying to Mahomes' Yang. Practice/prep like Smith, let it rip down the field w/ Mahomes talent/arm confidence, and you got yourselves a pretty darn good QB.

I'll never question Smith's work ethic, leadership, or ability to properly prepare. Never thought Smith went into games looking lost like he was just flat out unprepared. The guy has been in this league long enough to have seen just about anything you could throw at the guy.

He was just too timid in the pocket and never took any chances, not until just last season. The great ones do take the chances and make big plays...that was Smith's greatest fault.

Unless you have a great defense, 85 Bears, 00 Ravens, 02 Bucs etc...QB's like Smith aren't going to win you shit.

[-King-]

Originally Posted by CoMoChief

Well the truth is that he helped Mahomes learn how to be a NFL QB.

Nothing wrong w/ that. KC fans know Smith sucks. An avg at best, game managing play-it-safe QB.

But there is no longer any reason to beat that dead horse anymore...let Redskins fans cry in their beers watching 3yd passes on 3rd n 8. Will not miss any of that shit..that I can tell you.

BUT...

He ended up being the perfect Ying to Mahomes' Yang. Practice/prep like Smith, let it rip down the field w/ Mahomes talent/arm confidence, and you got yourselves a pretty darn good QB.

I'll never question Smith's work ethic, leadership, or ability to properly prepare. Never thought Smith went into games looking lost like he was just flat out unprepared. The guy has been in this league long enough to have seen just about anything you could throw at the guy.

He was just too timid in the pocket and never took any chances, not until just last season. The great ones do take the chances and make big plays...that was Smith's greatest fault.

Unless you have a great defense, 85 Bears, 00 Ravens, 02 Bucs etc...QB's like Smith aren't going to win you shit.

Exaxtly... Smith was a good to great game manager. He was consistent as a QB which is pretty much what you want from a QB who's not elite. At least you can game plan around that which Reid was able to do. The problem was that whenever shit went wrong like in the playoffs he couldn't over come that. It's so frustrating though that we probably were a Jamaal Charles/Travis Kelce/Jeremy Maclin injury away from beating the Colts, Patriots and Titans in the playoffs. Those are tough losses for any team, especially one with Smith at QB. It's just frustrating as a chiefs fan how much those injuries affected the chiefs the last 5 years.

But I'm happy as hell he was our QB. Without his consistency and ability to at least keep us in contention, we might have reached for a QB years ago and we'd be sitting here trying to lie to ourselves that Jameis Winston/Mariota or some other bum that was drafted the past few drafts is a franchise qb. Smith was good enough to let us wait out for the perfect QB.
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[Reerun_KC]

Originally Posted by -King-

Exaxtly... Smith was a good to great game manager. He was consistent as a QB which is pretty much what you want from a QB who's not elite. At least you can game plan around that which Reid was able to do. The problem was that whenever shit went wrong like in the playoffs he couldn't over come that. It's so frustrating though that we probably were a Jamaal Charles/Travis Kelce/Jeremy Maclin injury away from beating the Colts, Patriots and Titans in the playoffs. Those are tough losses for any team, especially one with Smith at QB. It's just frustrating as a chiefs fan how much those injuries affected the chiefs the last 5 years.

But I'm happy as hell he was our QB. Without his consistency and ability to at least keep us in contention, we might have reached for a QB years ago and we'd be sitting here trying to lie to ourselves that Jameis Winston/Mariota or some other bum that was drafted the past few drafts is a franchise qb. Smith was good enough to let us wait out for the perfect QB.
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Skins fans are trying to figure out a way to get out of that contract. We wasted 5 years and accomplished nothing with him. Now it’s their turn to wallow in the feces that is Alex Smith.

Smith never lifted the team around him here to anything other than checkdowns.

[Chief Pagan]

Originally Posted by Reerun_KC

Smith never lifted the team around him here to anything other than checkdowns.

No, he never lifted the team around him. But there have been plenty of QB's with multiple starts, during Smith's career, that have actively dragged their teams down. Maybe it is just semantics, but those are the QB's I would call bad.

If Smith was as bad as some of you argue, we wouldn't have gotten what we did trading Smith at this point in his career, nobody is going to expect him to turn over a new leaf.

But whatever. I'm thrilled the team gave up on game manager and rolled the dice for a QB with a huge upside.

[Sweet Daddy Hate]

Originally Posted by Chief Pagan

No, he never lifted the team around him. But there have been plenty of QB's with multiple starts, during Smith's career, that have actively dragged their teams down. Maybe it is just semantics, but those are the QB's I would call bad.

If Smith was as bad as some of you argue, we wouldn't have gotten what we did trading Smith at this point in his career, nobody is going to expect him to turn over a new leaf.

But whatever. I'm thrilled the team gave up on game manager and rolled the dice for a QB with a huge upside.

Smiff is an accurate reflection of the mediocrity of the league overall, a complete and total, "let's just all save our jobs"-kind of QB that offers nothing to fans who want to see their team actually DO something in life.
I generally feel nothing for other fan bases, but Washington has my complete sympathy.

[DRM08]

Originally Posted by Detoxing

Alex Smith gets to revel in Mahomes greatness. He's playing it smart. It would be stupid of him to be anything but complimentary and helpful to Mahomes.

He'll go down in history forever as the veteran QB mentor for the GOAT.

Smart move compared to Favre’s treatment of Rodgers. But I think Alex is just a good guy in general. No doubt Rodgers would be a douche to young QB if/when the Packers make that move.