2007 Alex Smith overthrow

One of many frustraing plays last year

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[BandwagonTeamHater]

I was at this game. Alex Smith was playing with a torn throwing shoulder which he later had surgery on after this season. Maybe the video uploader should point that out. How many of us can make that throw with a TORN throwing shoulder? None.

[BasharCali49]

The QB position is the hardest to learn in the NFL. But hey look at Alex now. He looks a lot better than he did in the past.

[riaria78]

He's still overthrowing in 2012

[riaria78]

@fanofa7x its not the past, Alex Shit still sucks!

[fanofa7x]

I remember this play, I got pissed but still, it's the past, the coaching staff sucked

[whomeam]

@UGLYSTIKCOLIN I think so far this season, Alex has been proving this comment damn wrong.

[BandwagonTeamHater]

@UGLYSTIKCOLIN Hes only played a litle over 3 seasons worth of football. any 9er fan will tell you singletary was the one holding the offense back last year. He kept running. In 09 he let smith use the spread, but turned stubborn in 2010 and held the entire offense back. The common denominator is not smith. Smith has been the common result of terrible coaching. Think about if smith sat behind favre for 3 years, been in mccarthy's system for 5, and came in with receivers like jennings and driver.

[UGLYSTIKCOLIN]

@BandwagonTeamHater Smith had decent numbers in '09 under Jimmy Raye. They kept him into 2010 and how did that work? They started 0-5. Offense was terrible. Yes, they fired him after 3 games, but even Singletary said that the new coordinator wouldn't be able to change the offense and would have to use the same terminology. Alex just isn't very good. A number 1 pick after 6 years and 1 game gets you 20-31? What's the common denominator? Alex Smith.

[BandwagonTeamHater]

@UGLYSTIKCOLIN Smith not only went to a terrible team, but hes now on his 7th different system in 7 yrs. Hes never gotten a chance to really learn system. Manning had the same coordinator, qb coach, and hell even the same o-line coach for his first 13 yrs. Smith was inserted too early. He should have sit like rodgers. His offensive line got his shoulder separated 3x and idiot nolan forced him to play through one. He had 2 rookie defensive head coaches too. All of that is more than just shitty.

[UGLYSTIKCOLIN]

@BandwagonTeamHater I don't think you can say they all were setup to fail. There have been loads of QB's who came to shitty teams and made them good. A good QB makes the team around him better- it's hardly the other way around. Peyton Manning came to a god awful Colts team, and they were god awful his 1st year. And as he got better, so did the Colts. Troy Aikman went to horrible Cowboys team. They went 1-15 his first year. Yet he got better and so did the Cowboys.

[BandwagonTeamHater]

@UGLYSTIKCOLIN He may be below avg but w'll never know how good he could have been. He wouold have been better had he been developed properly in Minnesota. Playing for defensive coach Childress, shuffling QBs frequently didnt help. I still dont get how ppl (including 49er fans) can blame Smith for not panning out to #1 pick expectations. We set him up to fail. What if they had the Aaron Rodgers development process? I root for QBs that never had a chance like Tarvaris, Carr, Smith, Campbell, etc.

[UGLYSTIKCOLIN]

@BandwagonTeamHater I disagree. I think Tarvaris is a below average QB and until he proves otherwise I'll think that. Also, we won't hang onto Tarvaris for 7 years trying to develop him into something he won't be- an elite QB. He's a stopgap and nothing more. Sure, he doesn't have great protection but he still takes too many sacks and does not go through his reads quickly enough.