Originally posted by dbdublin:
Originally posted by niner4life21:
Originally posted by 49ersNoKaOi:
Originally posted by 9erfanAUS:
Originally posted by niner4life21:
OMG. How hard is it to f**king understand this:
Jim Harbaugh is definitely saying good things about Alex Smith. He might mean them, and he might not. Only he knows. Anyway, the reason he is going so all out in his praise of Smith is b/c he needs to make sure him and Smith stay close so he can have him if there is no CBA. And regarding the little meetings the two have in Santa Clara to throw the ball around and all, it's just that Harbaugh wants to get a feel for how his possible QB of 2011 is in person. Is it that hard to f**king understand? He's really trying to keep Smith on his side b/c he knows that David Carr makes Alex look like a good QB.
Huh? So who is interpreting anything different?
-9fA
The people who keep saying that Harbaugh really thinks that Alex is 'very accurate, very durable , and has good intangibles.'
Plus, people are already sure that even if the CBA gets resolved, Harbaugh will choose Smith as his QB. That's my point. I think if the CBA gets resolved, Alex doesn't re-sign here. A lockout would mean that Alex would HAVE to re-sign, b/c otherwise, he'd have no job in the NFL. Remember, a lot of it has to do with Alex's decision, so he might want to test FA if there is a deal done for CBA.
Understand what you're saying. If I was Alex I'd be reluctant to come back here given the management, surrounding talent, and coaching he has had here. But I think he might be interested in playing for Harbaugh even given the a-holes he'll have to put with at Candlestick. That last game of the season was ridiculous. With Singletary gone and Mike Johnson turned lose he had a QB rating of 107, threw a couple of long TD pases, won the game 38 - 7, and he got bood every time he threw an incomplete pass. He really may want to get away from the haters. He has been scapegoated terribly here. The Niners have had a lot of problems the last six years besides Alex Smith. Until the last few games last year he's had to run for his life every time he took a snap. If Harbaugh thinks he can play and wants him back, I'm with Harbaugh, not the dipweeds at Candlestick. As a kid I watched John Brodie go through the same thing and he ended being league MVP.
That last game was a telling story of how much Singletary had restricted the offensive talent of this team.
Yes, I know it was against *those guys* but that is not what I am referring to. The telling point of the game was the game plan. From the beginning, receivers were running deeper routes, there were more 3 wide out formations, more play action passing...and all of this opened up things that seemingly had never existed before. Overall, the GAME PLAN, PLAY DESIGN AND PLAY SEQUENCING look like an entirely different team...and Alex Smith looked like a Pro Bowl quarterback.
What we should all have learned from that game, and marginally from previous Mike Johnson directed games, was the Alex Smith and the offense had a lot more to offer than all those "manage the game/impose our will" years of muddle-headed offense.