Alex Smith Goes For A Walk
I don’t remember if I’ve made an Alex Smith comic before. Surely I’ve drawn him at some point. Oh right, this one. It’s kind of hard to believe that in over 4 years and 547 comics I’ve never really made any Alex Smith jokes. Maybe because Alex Smith was a big enough joke for so long I didn’t need to. Hey-oooooooooh
I like Alex Smith. Dude seems like a genuine guy, just trying to make it in this crazy world. He seems like the one member of your friend group who’s always there and helpful, even though he frequently objects to the bad ideas the rest of you drunkards would come up with. He’s the DD. He’s the guy who shows up to jump your car when the battery dies, even though it makes him late for work. Sure, maybe he can be a bit of a buzzkill. Maybe that time you decided to egg Mr. Kristofferson’s house he later went back and told him out of guilt and then your parents found out what you did and you had to mow Mr. Kristofferson’s lawn for the summer. Maybe when you guys hang out in the bar he tells you to stop using sexist language. Maybe Alex Smith is the guy who gets uncomfortable when everyone starts talking about their sexual conquests. Maybe because he doesn’t like to go throw his balls deep. It’s also why he avoids the deep end of the pool.
But he’ll always be there. He was there when Becky left you (that bitch) and you ended up on the dock contemplating jumping off. He was there when your mom died and it tore you up inside. He was there to stop the fight between you and your man Pat when you fought over a girl. Becky. Man, seriously, she was the worst.
Alex Smith is a good man who, despite being the #1 overall pick, was never really appreciated. San Fran didn’t like him and willingly called for David Carr once. They seemed to try to replace him at every opportunity. By the time a good coach came around and made him something it was too late, he was quickly replaced with some bro who wears Beats By Dre and can’t find an open man to save his job from Blaine Gabbert. Alex finally found a home on BBQ Walrus island and I couldn’t be happier for him. I wish him well, even if he can’t throw past 10 yards and is the polar opposite type of player to the Sex Dragon.
Fuck Becky tho.
He hides a savings bank account from his wife
Btw I have never met a Becky, not sure why you and every rapper from the 1990’s thinks it’s a common name.
It’s short for Rebecca.
Rebecca was the 3rd most common female name in 95 and if you grew up in the 90’s you know Beckys were everywhere
Whatever you say!!
But yeah, people my age have grown up with girl names such as Gabby, Kayla, Jasmin
So when we wear hear somebody use a name like Susy or Becky to describe someone hypothetical, it’s like: Do they use that name because they think it’s common, or because nobody in the room is named that?
You also see fake names on Tinder, and it’s so obvious. Molly, Sally, Peggy. We know your name is Selena, I’m not the FBI
When and where the hell did you grow up that Jasmine is common? Kayla was popular for kids a few years younger than me. Nobody had Susan or Peggy, those were older lady names
I had 3 Becky’s in my grade alone. After Becky it was a lot of Jessica’s and Kim, some Nicole’s and Erins
Jasmine is not an extremely popular name amongst white people. In my school, it wasn’t just white people and some black people, like it is in the movies. It’s actually a popular black name, but there were plenty of Hispanic/Arab girls with some variant of Jasmine as their name
Geez, I have an Aunt Becky and know four other Beckys. Where do you live, Russia?
Alex Smith gets a bad wrap. He’s the cream of the crop of game managers, and can be competent in the playoffs. Plus he’s a nice guy (literally the reason he went #1 overall instead of A A Ron) but not a Phillip Rivers type with 20 kids.
Alex Smih>A-Rod.
Who needs deep passes when he can……Run slightly faster….Be slightly taller…Have the boring white name…Idk man Idk.
Before there was Henne, there was Smith.
Checkdowns are also good. Can’t score on every play
Fuck Becky. I hope she is in hell
Ahhh the Alex Smith’s of the world, good people.
You forgot the Alex Smith Drinking Game
That’s my QB! As a Chiefs fan who has had to endure 2+ decades of QB rejects pulled from either the Browns (for some reason) or the Pats; Alex Smith is a breath of fresh air. He’s smart, makes a few good to great plays a game, and can run like crazy when he needs too. He’s sneaky fast and is actually a more mobile QB than 90% of the QBs that start in the league, a fact that he doesn’t get enough credit for.
Of course, he doesn’t turn it over like the previous idiot we paid too much money for, Matt Cassel.
He’s the poor man’s Tom Brady. He dinks and dunks his brains out, throws a few deep ones, and is an absolute team player.
(Before you add in your 2 cents, I’m fully aware hes not actually Tom Brady)
The Chiefs are slowly getting decent, and I wouldn’t be surprised if they wind up in the same role as the Seahawks or Panthers, where they come careening into relevance and get loads of bandwagoners. Last season’s hot streak they had proves they have the ability to do it, but in a world where Tom Brady still plays it might take them a while to get into the Super Bowl.
I don’t see that happening. Our key players, especially on defense, are getting old fast, and many of them have sustained some substantial injuries the past few years. It’s quickly hurdling toward “win now” territory for us. Houston, Hali, and Charles can’t keep their level of play as high as it’s been for much longer, if any.
No, you were right on with that Brady comparison. Brady’s great, but he’s not a deep passer. Just makes the right decision. Dink and dunk down the field and get in position to kick the game winning field goal. Easy as pie.
I kind of like Alex Smith.
He is a bit like John Lithgow. if you don’t know him, don’t worry its not your fault. John Lithgow is a great actor, that never quite made it, because he was never pretty or manly enough to be the leading man in romantic comedies or action movies. And he never got the job that would stablish him as an A list actor (he was considered to play Hannibal Lecter, for instance, but the role went to Anthony Hopkins).
Some QBs that play in very good teams get more recognition than they deserve (like Mark Sanchez at the beginning of his career), and some good QBs don’t ever get recognized, because they didn’t play in the SB.
Dr. Alex Smith will forever be John Lithgow in my mind now. Thank you.
The Captain Checkdown image of Alex Smith is slightly overblown. But only slightly. Someone did an analysis of his air yardage, and about a third of his throws came around the line of scrimmage, ten percent over ten yards… And over half in that two to ten-yard range. Honestly, when you’ve got two of the best YAC receivers in the NFL (Jamaal Charles and Travis Kelce) throwing short a lot tends to work.
That same analysis, though, also pointed out that Smith started throwing deep more often towards the end of the season. The last three weeks, he had about an even one-third split in all the aforementioned sections of the field. It’ll be intersting to see if he sustains that trend.
This. Alex Smith does sling it when he thinks he can, or when he knows he has to. I refer you to that wild card game against the colts where he threw for 378 yards, 4 tds and 0 picks and Andy Reid still found a way to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
Classic Andy Reid except somehow miracle in the Meadowlands II.
Smith is not a roller coaster QB, you have to give him that much. You always know what you’re getting from him. He is the anti-Favre.
I’m amazed that no jokes were made about Hopkins’ “holdout”… Maybe Thursday
Alex Smith knows his weaknesses, and that’s more than a lot of players can say. He knows what he does well and focuses on emphasizing that, and does the same for his teammates. A lot of teams would kill for that out of their QB, even if he comes with a noodle arm and a love for settling on checkdowns.
Alex Smith is the epitome of average. Even his name is average
“Oh right, this one. It’s kind of hard to believe that in over 4 years and 547 comics I’ve never really made any Alex Smith jokes.”
So about as paced as a Chiefs 2 minute drill?
Am I doing this right?
Yep
You egged Kris Kristoffersons house?
Wonder where alex would havr been if hr had had a good start.
Still in KC, he just would have gotten there later, because all good San Fran QBs (that play for mutiple teams) end in arrowhead
I’m so happy that you wrote all that about Smith.
Feels like I got that off my chest. Alex (he’s probably cool with just calling him by his first name) has been my favorite player, not wearing a Saints uniform, for years. I found out he was the reason i had any sort of sympathy for the 49ers, and now i watch Chiefs’ games as the only other team besides the Saints… and a couple of weeks the only team I’ve watched whole games of – rooting for the wordt defense in NFL history is hard man…
I feel real joy watching him succeed. The whole “wishing good things for gold people”-deal
To me, he’s sort the Ryan Gosling of the NFL… just less fabulous and out-of-this-world, but more… human.
Less fabulous? Ryan Gosling and Alex Smith are basically identical twins.
I would have thought that a Giants fan would be remember that Smith was once two muffed punts away from the Super Bowl. For shame, Dave.
The 49ers probably would’ve lost that Super Bowl considering Brady’s invincible against everyone exceot the Giants.
But what if in this same scenario, Billy Cundiff DOESN’T shank that field goal against the Pats?
Love the N “if” L if that’s what you’re talking about.