>0 pro bowls is a telling stat regardless of anything else
>
>Cam has made the pro bowl, Vick multiple pro bowls. Numerous
>of the #1 drafted QBs also led a team to the playoffs long
>before Smith did. There are still telling stats that show he
>was not worth the #1 pick no matter how he turned out 8 years
>later.
The 49ers organization that made that draft pick was in no position to handle ANY top draft pick. They were not concerned about football and about developing talent or winning. It was all about balancing a check book at that point.


>There is also the option of not using a #1 pick on a QB which
>stats probably show is not worth it too often anyway. Granted
>2005 was an awful first round draft for the most part so there
>is not a should have drafted guy instead other than Rodgers.
Aaron Rodgers is clearly a more talented QB than Alex Smith. However, for anyone to act like his situation didn't put him in a MUCH MUCH better position to begin his career than Alex is in serious denial.


>The real point here is Smith has not done as well as other #1
>pick QBs over the last decade but has also done better than
>some other. For what you draft a #1 pick QB for though he did
>not fulfill the expectations, especially for the team who
>drafted him. Whatever he does for the Chiefs does not make the
>49ers selection of him any better.

Alex Smith is like a boat and the 49ers were like the water. When they drafted him, he was floating on cracked earth. Over time, it started raining and he started floating. His last two seasons, it was an ocean and he was moving along nicely. He should not have been drafted number one, no QB should have, but that does not make him a bust.