Steve Young wants to help Alex Smith

I don't understand why the front office wouldn't absolutely jump all over this. A HOF QB that is enamored and loyal to our team will to help a young QB... If I were Jed York the call would have already been made. Nothing could help Alex more than criticism and technical help than a guy like Steve Young.

Steve to Alex: "Yo Al, stick your hand in your butt and pull it out slowly. If you keep doing that everyday, your hands will get bigger."

Originally posted by chico49erfan:
I don't understand why the front office wouldn't absolutely jump all over this. A HOF QB that is enamored and loyal to our team will to help a young QB... If I were Jed York the call would have already been made. Nothing could help Alex more than criticism and technical help than a guy like Steve Young.

Young can say all he wants. until he shows up 9ers can't do anything about it but work with what they got. (crabtree issue)

Young Doesnt need a call from anyone to come over to the Facility, and I don't see Jed asking any former Niner to leave as well.

Originally posted by jprchrds:

Originally posted by 49wyztoscore:
I would love to see Young and Jerry take Alex and Crabtree and have personal workouts before the start of OTA's. That would do wonders for our offense. LETS MAKE IT HAPPEN!!!

party time... I miss winning... hated seeing the saints celebrate a SB to be honest, remember when we used to own those chumps

We could still own them next year (since we are playing them and the off-season is still very young), so let's see what happens there.

I hope we play them the in the first 3 or so games and get an win off them, that'll get us some respect from those fools in the media...

GO Alex SMITH 2010 AND BEYOND!!!!

Originally posted by 49AllTheTime:

Originally posted by chico49erfan:
I don't understand why the front office wouldn't absolutely jump all over this. A HOF QB that is enamored and loyal to our team will to help a young QB... If I were Jed York the call would have already been made. Nothing could help Alex more than criticism and technical help than a guy like Steve Young.

Young can say all he wants. until he shows up 9ers can't do anything about it but work with what they got. (crabtree issue)

Young Doesnt need a call from anyone to come over to the Facility, and I don't see Jed asking any former Niner to leave as well.

Wait, what? Can you clarify this I don't understand it at all. He needs to show up and then Jed can ask? I'm saying Jed York should call him ASAP if he says he wants to help Alex Smith. If he (Jed) actually went out and took initiative it would make Steve feel like his services were needed. With the job he already has, why would Steve go hunting at the the 49ers facility for that? And I'm sure Steve goes to visit the 49ers HQ every once in a while.

And what are the Crabtree issues?

I'm sorry, your post just made 0 sense to me.

Originally posted by PTulini:

Originally posted by Joecool:
I think Alex has had enough paper knowledge and he doesn't need anymore. Just let the guy get back to bending his knees and playing football.

Look at the games when he first came into the HOU game. His legs were nicely bent and he used his legs' power to make some damn good throws. Later in the year, at times, he resorted back to his straight front leg.

I agree. Alex said in a recent interview that he is thankful for not having to learn another offense. He says his goals this offseason are to work on his mechanics (which he hasn't had much time to do throughout his career), timing with the WRs, and to have more of an imput into the 49ers offense.

Smith hasn't had time to work on his mechanics? How many years... and you can do the footwork and lots of other stuff even with your arm in a sling.

Knowing the offense? How long does it take to learn Raye's twelve plays?

Input makes sense, he kind of did that when they petitioned Raye to give up the smashmouth farce, after only how many games......?

Timing is indeed something you need to be healthy to do and now he knows who the receivers are.

One way or the other, please. Either be real good or suck so badly that there are no more chances and the team can look to Davis or someone. The worst situation would be for Smith to just almost kind of be sort of ok and the team would have to deal with this for yet another year, and next year, and....

The only thing Steve can do for alex is...MAKE HIM BETTER. Heck ya, bring him on. I suggested a similar thing with Montana, 3 yrs back. Nothing every came of it, and Joe never volunteered.

Yeah, I saw this too. Great. I have been waiting to see something like this. I am not worried as much about languge confusion as far as scheme goes. If you ask me, Steve can be much more of a help in fundamentals, footwork, droppiing back from center, and maybe reading defenses.

Originally posted by carlgo:

Originally posted by PTulini:

Originally posted by Joecool:
I think Alex has had enough paper knowledge and he doesn't need anymore. Just let the guy get back to bending his knees and playing football.

Look at the games when he first came into the HOU game. His legs were nicely bent and he used his legs' power to make some damn good throws. Later in the year, at times, he resorted back to his straight front leg.

I agree. Alex said in a recent interview that he is thankful for not having to learn another offense. He says his goals this offseason are to work on his mechanics (which he hasn't had much time to do throughout his career), timing with the WRs, and to have more of an imput into the 49ers offense.

Smith hasn't had time to work on his mechanics? How many years... and you can do the footwork and lots of other stuff even with your arm in a sling.

Knowing the offense? How long does it take to learn Raye's twelve plays?

Input makes sense, he kind of did that when they petitioned Raye to give up the smashmouth farce, after only how many games......?

Timing is indeed something you need to be healthy to do and now he knows who the receivers are.

One way or the other, please. Either be real good or suck so badly that there are no more chances and the team can look to Davis or someone. The worst situation would be for Smith to just almost kind of be sort of ok and the team would have to deal with this for yet another year, and next year, and....

I totally agree with your last point. That would be the absolute worst possible senario, play just marginally well and keep the job for another year. I am still rooting for Alex, but he needs to make more than just a marginal gain this year, otherwise lets turn the page.

Originally posted by TheSixthRing:
STEVE YOUNG IS THE ONE WHO NEEDS HELP!

Maybe Steve and Rich Gannon can help each other. lol I couldn't resist,

He needs all the help he can get. Our 2010 season.. playoffs or bust for Mr. Alex Smith.

Originally posted by carlgo:

Originally posted by PTulini:

Originally posted by Joecool:
I think Alex has had enough paper knowledge and he doesn't need anymore. Just let the guy get back to bending his knees and playing football.

Look at the games when he first came into the HOU game. His legs were nicely bent and he used his legs' power to make some damn good throws. Later in the year, at times, he resorted back to his straight front leg.

I agree. Alex said in a recent interview that he is thankful for not having to learn another offense. He says his goals this offseason are to work on his mechanics (which he hasn't had much time to do throughout his career), timing with the WRs, and to have more of an imput into the 49ers offense.

Smith hasn't had time to work on his mechanics? How many years... and you can do the footwork and lots of other stuff even with your arm in a sling.

Knowing the offense? How long does it take to learn Raye's twelve plays?

Input makes sense, he kind of did that when they petitioned Raye to give up the smashmouth farce, after only how many games......?

Timing is indeed something you need to be healthy to do and now he knows who the receivers are.

One way or the other, please. Either be real good or suck so badly that there are no more chances and the team can look to Davis or someone. The worst situation would be for Smith to just almost kind of be sort of ok and the team would have to deal with this for yet another year, and next year, and....

How can you work on mechanics when you're trying to learn an entirely new system? An NFL playbook is thicker than the bible. They all have different terminologies for every single route and play. Basically every NFL playbook and playcaller is unique.

I agree that Alex needs to be more assertive so the offense is taylor made to his strengths. In fact, I remember reading somewhere that Sing was waiting for Alex to do just that and he didn't until he was basically forced. However, I do not think we'll see as much of the shotgun as everyone wants. In fact, the only reason we went to the gun last year was due to the fact that our line was high school quality at best. But I do think we'll be spreading it out and running more out of a single back and even an empty backfield.

Smith>>> Young