Funny, after leading his team to the NFC West division title, and doing it while working behind a fairly porous offensive line, getting the shit knocked out of him regularly, and hanging in there under usually a ton of pressure, Alex Smith is still percieved as a game manager by most of the wonks who comment on football. Even Trent Dilfer still says “he’s doing what they ask him to do.” What’s that, Trent? Win games? OK, gotcha. Nice point. Steve Mariucci, a guy who should know better, says much the same. Deion Sanders takes it even further, basically calling him worthless and lucky to be sniffing the playoffs. And if you ever want to hear a bunch of self-absorbed clowns who don’t seem to understand what they see on a day-to-day basis, listen to the NFL Network’s post game highlight show. Michael Irvin is truly clueless as well. Mooch is there as the comedy relief that the others (Sapp, Faulk, Dukes, Deion, and Irvin) don’t really pay attention to. Rich Eisen is fine, but the rest are way too emnamored with their own sweet selves.
Deion Sanders ‘loves” Stevie Johnson. Why? Because he’s a self-promoting WR who drops passes, concocts dumb-ass TD celebrations, and loses games for the Bills? Gotcha. It’s not how you play, it’s how you call attention to yourself. But Deion, who ‘smartly’ advised Michael Crabtree to hold out (for basically the same offer that was orignally on the table back in 2009), and lost Dez Bryant his senior year in college ball, all while working for the NFL Network, and thusly the NFL (conflict of interest there, guys?), merrily skates along talking nonsense and wreaking havoc on those around him.
You have to know that a lot of the animosity that surrounded Crabs and Alex Smith over the past couple seasons, and even this offseason (Crabs wouldn’t even acknowledge who his QB was this offseason) was fueled by Deion Sanders and his disdain for Alex Smith. I guess if you don’t all attention to yourself as a self-aggrandizing attention-seeking whore, you don’t get in Sanders’ good graces. Smith, to his ultimate credit, ignores all the bullshit swirling around him regarding the game manager tag, and all the negative hyperbole. When Justin Tuck called him a game manager before the Giants Niners game, saying, the Niners are “asking him not to lose games.” Well, he changed his tune after the Niners came back in the 4th quarter to beat the Giants. Lots of players who have faced him and lost now have a different opinion of him.
The comparisons to guys like Trent Dilfer (I don’t know Trent’s feelings on this) are flat ludicrous. Trent was barely tolerable as the QB of the defensively dominating Baltimore Ravens, but his numbers were shit. He’s nowhere near what Smith is doing this year. Dilfer was hurt half the year, and threw for 1,500 yards. 12 TDs and 11 INTs. He had and epically awful 76.6 QBR. That’s a game manager. A hand-off guy. Not a guy who has 15 TDs on 5 picks and a QBR of 94.9.
So, while he ingores the shitstorm swirling around him, Alex Smith quietly goes about his business of winning football games, and shutting down his detractors. His road to winning the division this year is a long and twisted one. One that HE directed on his own terms. From the thrill of coming in as the #1 pick in the NFL draft as a 20 year old back in 2005 to the crappy teams, the injuries, mismanagement, bad coaching, revolving door coaching staffs, and the idea that he would try to make things right HERE, taking a pay cut, restructuring his contract given the opportunities that he could have bailed due to outright fan anger toward him, and the chances that he could have split and toiled in animosity somewhere else all must make this particularly satisfying for him. He’s not going to be a guy that does any crazy touchdown celebrations, or infamously ask to have a monkey pulled from off his back, or even give a very compelling interview, but if ever there was a guy who deserves nothing but the utmost respect for the perserverence and dedication that he has shown the game and the people in it, it is Alex Smith.
Forty Niners Forever 
If that’s all true, you’ve made your point so now you can go away.
It’s not my site, you know that , Denny. Now I’m done with your new screen name. Or if you are really someone else, perhaps you can also find someone else to argue with. I doubt that many here discuss 49er issues with trolls.
It seems you are confabulating with Spitblood.
From PFT:
Regardless of whatever accomplishments he enjoys in the NFL, Jason Garrett will forever be known as the coach who iced his own kicker. But the criticism of Garrett conceals a more troubling truth regarding the final moments of regulation in the Cowboys’ eventual overtime loss to the Cardinals.
Quarterback Tony Romo found yet another way to blow a game in the clutch.
Yes, Garrett inexplicably called for a time out while his team was in field-goal position. Kicker Dan Bailey made the one that didn’t count, and he missed the one that did.
Before it ever got to that point, however, Tony Romo failed to realize that the Cowboys had two time outs remaining, after a completion on third and 11 gave Dallas a first down at the Arizona 32, with 26 seconds to play.
Instead of immediately calling for a time out, Romo rushed the offense to the line of scrimmage for a spike play. A full 19 seconds later, the clock had been stopped by the intentional incompletion.
After the game, Romo clumsily explained that he didn’t call the time out because he didn’t know whether the Cowboys had gotten a first down. But the tape shows no hesitation on Romo’s part; he immediately urged his teammates to get in position to spike the ball, which means that he simply didn’t realize he had two time outs in his pocket. (Besides, if the Cowboys hadn’t gotten a first down, spiking the ball would have given possession to the Cardinals. Thus, if Romo had any doubt at all about whether it was first down or fourth down, his first move should have been to take the time out.)
In fairness to Romo, Garrett could have called for a time out from the sideline while Romo was rushing the offense into position for the spike play. But Romo, if he truly intends to be a Super Bowl winning quarterback and to overcome a reputation for finding new and exciting ways to screw up with the game on the line, needs to know how many time outs he has left and when to use him. Otherwise, he’ll again per perceived as finding new and exciting ways to screw up with the game on the line.
Shit, I go away for a little while, and shitblood reappears.
He’s been banned again.
He’s had his moment of fun . . .
Berger, even if that’s all true, the coaches should have been screaming at him, the refs, and anyone under the sun to call a time out. That falls more on the coaches than Romo. Garrett is standing there watching the clock run down down the whole time doing what?
So? They’re both idiots.
Jesus, Chuckie, you might as well delete my responses, too.
Unca- The post about Romo was to verify the Spitblood posts. Del would never let anybody mess with his Cowboys and Romo. He loves the Cowboys and he loves Tony Romo.
That was clever Bergs, posting on the Cows and Romo to see who the (now banned/deleted poster was). Spit? My my….well well “People don’t change”. I read 30 posts and thought “What am I missing? Seems twinfan is having an argument with himself?” Ok, the other side of the dialog got deleted, got it.
Like Berger I really did sit and watch this site for a long time before coming over to join in. Glad it got cleaned up, good job Chuck. Looks like we”re having so much fun and good times over here that some of the old customers wanna get back in and start another food fight.
If there was ever a time to chill and enjoy the blessings of being a 49ers fan in the last 8 years it’s right now! Glad the sheriff Unca Chuck is on duty!
3 division games on the road as twin mentioned, that’s no easy task. Even if it’s the NFC West. Both Seattle and Cards are playing much better now so we have our work cut out for us.
Well as we say in FAA (football addicts anonymous) “One game at a time!”
If we can stick to the Harbaugh formula of jump on them early and beat them up by running out the clock we should be okay.
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