>How can a milquetoast, humble, good-but-not-great player like
>Smith get people this riled up?
>
>Dude was taken first in a weak QB draft (23 teams passed on
>Rodgers), played bad on some bad teams, mediocre on some
>mediocre teams, and pretty good when he got some good coaches
>and a solid O-line. But his team finds a future superstar and
>it's time to ship him. The story is not that complicated.
>
>

Now that I think about it no one is riled up except for Alex Smith apologists with persecution complexes. All those please about bad coaching can be said of Tim Rattay, Ken Dorsey and Troy Smith.

Objectively speaking, Alex Smith is a bust that was allowed to hang on long enough to revitalize his career and show enough promise to warrant an opportunity to bring stability to the quarterback position for another team.

We coming for that division crown next year. Until then party all you want.