Originally posted by dj43:
Originally posted by 49erRider:
Originally posted by dj43:
Originally posted by BobS:
Originally posted by dtg_9er:
Originally posted by BobS:
Originally posted by 49erRider:
Originally posted by BobS:
Originally posted by 49erRider:
Originally posted by dtg_9er:
Voted for Smith because I saw all of them play.
Doubtful.
Replace your $5 garage sale TV and stop cracking beers at 5am Sunday morning and you will see different.
Are you talking to me or the other dude?
And I still don't believe he saw all of them play.
That comment about the $5 garage sale TV is for anyone who denies Alex Smith's inaccuracy or thinks coaching can fix it. Somehow either their vision is bad or their TV so fuzzy they can't see screen passes flying 8ft high and 90 mph when they get to the receiver, or the one's throw at the shoelaces.
So...you mean Harbaugh? Who commented that one of the things he liked about Smith was his accuracy. As far as having seen all these QBs play...I have shoes older than your grandfather's TV.
Harbaugh was posturing in case we don't land something better and need Alex for a stop gap. If he honestly thinks Alex is accurate, the 49ers are wasting 5 million a year on a coach who is a moron.
I have no interest in a long smith thread but Bill Walsh proved with Joe Montana that accuracy can be taught. He did the same thing with Young. Both have recalled the many extra hours working on throwing to a precise spot not just at the player. The ball had to hit the lead hand in stride or the play was run again. You can teach accuracy but you have to understand how to do it.
His accuracy issues are more mental than physical. You can't coach that. He throws inaccurate SCREEN PASSES because he gets flustered and has no poise.
Let me expand on my earlier post about Walsh and practicing for accuracy.
Steve Young recalled that Walsh would start with a "simple" swing pass to a back coming out of the backfield. The drill began with Walsh demanding the precise line on the ground that the back had to run. The route had to be perfect before the pass was thrown. Next the QB had to throw the ball on the correct arc and hit the back on his lead hand. Steve said, "it may sound simple but it isn't." Walsh made them stay with it until it was done perfectly 10 times in a row. If the pass was on the lead hand but the back hadn't run the route correctly, they had to start over. If the route was correct but the pass was off target, they had to start over. It got to where they could throw that pass with their eyes open. Whether it was Craig or Rathman or Watters, it didn't matter. It had to be done perfectly...and it worked. Young was never very accurate in TB. He learned to be accurate in SF.
One of the recurrent themes about the Nolan/Sing TCs was that there was always a certain list of things that had to be completed whether they were done well or not. There was never any real emphasis placed on working to perfection.
So compare those two pictures and tell me that Alex Smith's problems with accuracy are in his head and he will never get better. If you can, you need to start selling those crystal balls you gaze at...and I wish you luck.
Smith is in his 6th year. Really tough to erase the accuracy issues of a player going into his 7th season. People keep saying how Harbaugh can develop Alex Smith. Alex isn't some rookie that you can just develop. He's a vet who has already developed his own negative tendencies and mechanics. The guy still has flawed mechanics and footwork after all these years.